Clay County News

One woman was taken to the hospital with chest pains after a fire destroyed four apartments in Clay County Friday morning.

By Tom Loftus tloftus@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky State Police have called a news conference for 2 p.m. Tuesday to release the official results of the investigation into the September death of census worker Bill Sparkman in Clay County.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Kentucky State Police said yesterday that the September 12 death of census worker Bill Sparkman was suicide.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Clay County's reputation isn't what most outsiders think, said Charles House, president of the Clay County Historical Society.

Bill Sparkman, the U.S. Census worker found dead and nude with his hands taped near a remote Clay County cemetery with "FED" scrawled across his naked chest, hanged himself while staging it to look as if he'd been murdered.

A Manchester man was charged with murder after a head-on crash that killed a Pineville woman Sunday night in Clay County, Kentucky State Police said Monday.

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"My baby self weaned despite me trying to keep up the nursing! I find it so refreshing to hear Gwen talk about how hard she works to lose weight and keep herself in top shape.

This week's magazine, issue 1099, contains an exclusive report of the mother-son team's two days visiting children in one of America's poorest states Pop-star turned fashion icon Victoria Beckham had a very special helper on her latest assignment as an ambassador for Save the Children.

VICTORIA Beckham spoke out about childhood poverty yesterday after taking her eldest son to visit some of the poorest children in America.

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Doing good things for the kiddies - and not her own! Victoria Beckham brought along her 10-year-old son, Brooklyn , to Clay County, Kentucky, this week to raise awareness for childhood poverty and the Save The Children's US Programs.

A Clay County teacher is arrested after police say she was high in the classroom! 42-year-old Marietta House Abner, a special education teacher, was arrested Monday at Goose Rock Elementary School.

Hundreds of jobs are coming soon to Clay County courtesy of a Florida-based recycling company.

Since news broke that Bill Sparkman's lifeless body was found in Clay County with the word "fed" written on his chest, the mystery surrounding his death has triggered nationwide media attention.

A part-time census taker died at the tree in a Kentucky forest where his body was found with a rope around his neck and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, officials said Wednesday.

In a unanimous decision, the Manchester City Council votes to purchase the land that will be the future location of a waste conversion plant.

LONDON, Ky.- The son of a U.S. Census Bureau worker found hanging from a tree in eastern Kentucky with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest said Tuesday he has no doubt his father was slain.

Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky, his feet and hands duct-taped and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.

Clay County Coroner Jim Trosper confirmed Friday the word "fed" was written on Sparkman, apparently with a felt-tip pen.