Salyersville News

Britthaven of Somerset has garnered national attention recently, although it's not the kind of attention a nursing home would desire.

A national report ranks a Magoffin County nursing home as one of the worst in the country.

The Governmental Accountability office compiled the list of nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities it deemed as poor performers.

The recession apparently isn't having an effect on Kentucky Lottery players in Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Magoffin and Martin counties.

A misdemeanor charge against a Salyersville city councilman is dismissed. The Lexington Herald reports Jeff Ross was accused of threatening a city employee.

Police say a teacher at North Magoffin Elementary School has been arrested on drug trafficking charges.

A Magoffin County teacher's home is raided in a drug trafficking investigation. Operation UNITE officials say North Magoffin Elementary teacher Darrell Patrick is under investigation on allegations he sold OxyCodone.

A woman was injured after she attempted to avoid a gravel truck Wednesday morning on KY 519, according to police.

Charges against a state lawmaker, allegedly involved in a dispute with a neighbor, are dropped.

Two women died in a crash with a semi truck in Madison County late Friday. Martha A. Collins, 28, of Salyersville was driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup north on Ky.

Kentucky State Police a pick up truck trying to pass in a no passing zone caused a double fatal accident Friday night in Madison County.

PNC Wealth Management: John L. Gohmann has been appointed vice president and will be based in the Lexington office.

A city council member has been criminally charged with threatening a city employee in an argument over whether city resources were being used in construction of the mayor's cabin outside city limits.

Magoffin County Sheriff's Department employees say a drug bust led them to thousands of dollars worth of stolen property.

The Kentucky State Police announced the promotion of 30 officers at a special ceremony held today at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Frankfort.

Some people in Magoffin, Morgan and Wolfe Counties attended a public hearing to discuss a project that will widen a portion of the Mountain Parkway.

A former deputy judge-executive of Magoffin County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.

JACKSON a ' A section of the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway will be widened to four lanes, say state highway officials, who will hold a public hearing to discuss the project next week.

SALYERSVILLE a ' The Magoffin County Courthouse was placed on lockdown on Wednesday after three jurors reported they had been intimidated by a family member of Chester Dean Allen, a man on trial for sexual abuse and sodomy charges.

Police are trying to find a woman who's accused of cashing bogus checks at grocery stores.