Breathitt County News

" Two Prestonsburg High School students are now being held at a juvenile detention center in Breathitt County after police arrested them for allegedly setting off smoke bombs at the school Wednesday.

The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security -known as the FACES of Coal - took their campaign to get Kentuckians organized about coal mining and answers about energy policy questions to three places in Jackson on Monday and left with pledges of support.

State Auditor Crit Luallen today released the audits of the 2008 Taxes for Breathitt County Sheriff Ray Clemons for the period May 3, 2008 through April 15, 2009, and the 2007 Unmined Coal Taxes audit for the period Sept.

An initiative promoted by Morehead State Universitya s two Innovation Centers has more people talking about job creation around information technology businesses in Eastern Kentucky.

Breathitt County schools will be closed for the rest of the week after a rise in the number of students who were absent from school Monday due to flu-like symptoms.

He is perhaps the most appropriately named young man in Anderson County. Not only did Hunter Wilson, 12, bag a beautiful 9-point buck during the recent youth hunt season here, the seventh-grader also added a trophy elk to his resume during a youth elk hunt last month in Breathitt County.

Donna Combs has proven ita s never too late to go back to finish your college degree.

10. Name the lady who has the distinction of being the mother, sister, daughter, and cousin of Kentucky governors.

A soldier in North Carolina, originally from Breathitt County, is in jail, facing charges in an armed robbery that happened in July.

The children of 4-H Camp founder Elmer Boggs celebrated a unique "Father's Day" Friday evening as county officials dedicated the campground loop in his honor.

Breathitt County High School student, Jamie Rice, Knott Central High student Brady Risner and Perry Central High student, Brooklyn Carroll were among twenty-one students throughout the state selected by Kentucky State Police to participate in the 'Drive to Stay Alive' program.

A former bookkeeper for the Breathitt County sheriff's office, who already has been charged with theft, falsified records so she could cash checks made out to vendors and pocket the money, according to an audit of the Breathitt County sheriff's office.

A four year old Breathitt County boy is hit by a car in his driveway, and now police are asking for your help to find the woman that drove away.

He was playing outside his house, in his driveway, when a 4 year old was hit by an SUV.

Eight undergraduate college students from around the nation, including three from Kentucky, joined three area teachers in a 10-week environmental research camp that focused on "Carbon Storage and Headwater Health in the Appalachian Headwaters." The camp, co-hosted by Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute at Eastern Kentucky University ...

Hundreds of pot plants are destroyed in Breathitt County as a marijuana eradication team makes their way through the Big Caney community.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.

Kentucky State Police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Highway 30 East in Jackson.

State police are investigating a shooting in Breathitt County where one man has died and another man is at UK Hospital.