Harlan County News

DEBBIE CALDWELL/ Daily Enterprise Eighteen people were arrested Friday morining in the Tri-Cities area during a roundup by the Harlan County Sheriffa s Office.

Dr. Rachel Lewis-Shelton, a Harlan County native, was recently featured in Southern Kentucky Health and Family Journal for her work with breast cancer patients.

Child poverty rates in Harlan County have now reached higher than 40 percent, according to information released by the Census Bureau recently.

As winter approaches, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program will help Harlan Countians with their energy bills.

The Harlan County Public Library will be adding two more public access computers, giving them a total of eight computers.

A domestic violence candlelight vigil, organized by Sheryl Caudel, victim advocate for Harlan County, was held recently at the courthouse in Harlan.

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.

This June 2009 photo released by Southeast Community College shows an animatronic miner loading coal onto a transport car as another prepares to haul it out of Portal 31, a tourist mine in Lynch, Ky.

Photo by Jeff Phillips Members of Harlan County 2020 met Monday and listened to presentations from students of the Harlan County High School gifted leadership team on issues they felt were important to them in Harlan County.

State police have charged a Harlan County man with abusing his 3-month-old son. Carl C. Crider, 25, of Cumberland allegedly squeezed his son's abdomen.

A Cumberland man has been arrested for abusing his three-month-old baby. Carl C. Crider, 25, is charged with first degree criminal abuse.

Lynch, Ky. -- Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine.

JASON EDWARDS/Harlan Daily Enterprise Magistrate Chad Brock, Harlan County Judge-Executive Joe Grieshop, Special Projects Coordinator Dan Mosley and FACES representative Miranda Combs spoke after the meeting.

NOLA SIZEMORE/Harlan Daily Enterprise Residents of the Cumberland Hope Center had a vegetable garden this year where they grew lots of pumpkins and squash.

NOLA SIZEMORE/Harlan Daily Enterprise Raymond Cox, Harlan County Extension Agent/4-H, explained the programming and dates for this yeara s Reality Store during a meeting.. Giving local high school students a look at some of the tough decisions they will face as adults is the goal of the annual Reality Store.

Albino and Dawn Nunez, local members of the Lexington chapter of the Ky Horse Shu Kru, visited with other members, who visited Harlan recently.

The Harlan Fiscal Court met on Thursday to discuss several items including presenting a petition to the Kentucky Transportation Committee requesting that U.S. 119 be made a four lane road through Harlan County.

Harlan County's fast-growing name for adventure tourism has attracted a national film crew for the third time this year.

The Harlan City Council met on Monday to discuss several items including replacing burnt out Christmas lights and putting pressure on business owners and people who arena t maintaining their homes or businesses properly.

Skye Pruitt and two others have been indicted by a Harlan County Grand Jury for their alleged involvement in the Save-A-Lot store robbery that occurred on July 2. Evarts Police Department officer Michael Lunsford executed three indictment warrants Saturday after nearly a three-month investigation of the robbery.