Rogers News

U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Community Services has approved a $600,000 grant for the Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation to create 40 jobs in Cumberland.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer As of about 8 p.m. Wednesday, none of the Tri-County detention centers appeared to be hosting prisoners taken in an Eastern Kentucky roundup of alleged drug dealers earlier in the day.

Police officers fanned out across Eastern Kentucky early Wednesday to arrest alleged drug dealers in the culmination of a major investigation of interstate pill smuggling.

A tornado touched down in Casey County Friday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, and at least two more are suspected in other counties.

U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced today that the U.S. House of Representatives has approved federal funding for flood control efforts in southern and eastern Kentucky.

David Hager, owner of Idle Hour Farm near Paris, Ky., and an active supporter of the Kentucky Thoroughbred industry for many years, has been named Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Farm Manager of the Year for 2009.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- With his former-governor father looking on, state Rep. Steve Nunn of Glasgow told a group of lobbyists yesterday that he would like to lead Kentucky himself in 2003.

The KCEOC Community Action Partnership won the trophy for greatest volunteer participation by a nonprofit organization during PRIDE Spring Cleanup Month, which was held in April in 38 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky.

The state department of agriculture decided to cut its 4-H equine funding, forcing 4-H administrators to find other ways to raise money for the program.

U.S. Congressman Harold a oeHala Rogers announced that the Department of Health and Human Services , through the Office of National Institute of General Medical Sciences , has awarded Morehead State University A a $198,768 grant for cancer research.

U.S. Congressman Harold a oeHala Rogers announced that the House of Representatives has approved $10 million for the Kentucky-based National Institute for Hometown Security .

U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced today that a key committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has approved federal funding for flood control efforts in southern and eastern Kentucky.

Construction is finally underway for a long-awaited Metro Animal Services adoption center in Louisville.

" U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has awarded $3,696,700 toward numerous improvement projects in the Daniel Boone National Forest including debris removal for trail and road restoration, forest thinning to resist the Gypsy Moth, stream and ecosystem monitoring, and dump clean ups with Kentucky ...

Is Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers encouraging emergency responders to take part in something he doesn't support? That's what one branch of political opposition is accusing Rogers of after the Fifth District Republican recently urged fire departments throughout his part of the state to apply for a new competitive grant program for firehouse ...

" Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced today that a key committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has approved $4.45 million for Operation UNITE to continue its flourishing counter-drug initiative in southern and eastern Kentucky.

By Adam Sulfridge For The Times-Tribune Not even well watered soil could keep bluegrass music enthusiasts away from the second annual Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival.

Special to The Times-Tribune Wednesday's East Kentucky Flood Relief Telethon on WYMT-TV helped raise nearly $50,000 for East Kentucky flood victims.

The lone commercial airline serving Republican Rep. Hal Rogers' hometown of Somerset offers discounted fares starting at $39 on half-empty nine-seat planes thanks to a $1 million taxpayer-subsidized grant.

There was little doubt when I began watching my old friend Neil Middleton interview Congressman Hal Rogers on WYMT's Issues and Answers earlier in the week something would be said that would start me talking to my television.