Letcher News

Two Madison County residents are among 15 people arrested Tuesday on charges of forging prescriptions for the pain medication OxyContin, the state attorney general's office announced.

Morehead State University has been awarded funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission to continue its work with the Kentucky Appalachian Higher Education Network .

More schools are calling off classes, due to H1N1 and other flu-like symptoms. Now, Pike, Floyd, Breathitt, and Wolfe County schools will be closed the rest of the week.

Kentucky State Police along with sheriff's deputies are investigating 2 assaults in Letcher County.

As attacks on mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia have grown increasingly sharp, the coal industry and its supporters have defended the practice by saying that reclaimed mine areas provide flat land for development in a place where level sites are scarce.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer The Whitley County school system's week out for illness will not affect the upcoming fall break, said Patrick Bowling, the district's director of pupil personnel.

The Double Quick Marathon convenience store in the Dry Fork community of Letcher County was robbed at knifepoint on Saturday, Kentucky State Police in Hazard said.

One man is dead and his brother shot after an argument Wednesday in Deane in Letcher County.

Drive your vehicle on Whitesburg's new walking trail and you could lose it. Letcher County officials - tired of graffiti and vandalism - have enacted a new ordinance to protect a newly built downtown Whitesburg pedestrian bridge and walking trail in eastern Kentucky.

Drive your vehicle on Whitesburg's new walking trail and you could lose it. Letcher County officials - tired of graffiti and vandalism - have enacted a new ordinance to protect a newly built downtown Whitesburg pedestrian bridge and walking trail in eastern Kentucky.

Drive your vehicle on Whitesburg's new walking trail and you could lose it. Letcher County officials - tired of graffiti and vandalism - have enacted a new ordinance to protect a newly built downtown Whitesburg pedestrian bridge and walking trail in eastern Kentucky.

"And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There stood by a man of Macedonia, and prayed him saying, come over into Macedonia, and help us." We read in Acts 10 where God spoke to the gentile, Cornelius, through a vision.

Several eastern Kentucky mines were recently cited for failing to submit an emergency plan to federal mining officials.

Many non-resident students currently enrolled in the Harlan County School District will likely be forced to transfer schools next year as a non-resident contract between the Letcher County and Harlan County school boards has yet to be approved.

Farmers in Pulaski County may now qualify for disaster assistance as a result of severe weather in May.

President Barack Obama on Friday declared parts of Kentucky devastated by May storms, tornadoes, flooding and mudslides a major disaster, making federal funding available for recovery.

So did you know that the richest man in Europe has installed himself as a Letcher County coal operator? After chasing down rumors that had been circulating from Isom to Camp Branch, and from Sandlick to Buck Creek, The Mountain Eagle reported that more than 300 Kentucky miners, in Letcher and Knott Counties, soon will be working for 42-year-old ...

The impact of a troubled economy on the coal industry became visible last week when a Letcher County coal company cut the jobs of 85 miners.

A joint investigation by the Letcher County Sheriff's Office, the Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement Special Investigation East, the HIDTA Drug Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigations has resulted in the arrest of several Letcher County residents as well as two subjects now living in Detroit, Michigan.