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May Valley gets continued funding for Toyota bornlearning academy
FRANKFORT – The success of May Valley Elementary’s first year in Toyota’s bornlearning Academy has secured it extended funding, representatives from Toyota announced this week. According to officials, May Valley Elementary will receive continue receiving funding from Toyota’s manufacturing operations in Kentucky to operate the Toyota bornlearning Academy launched in 2012. May Valley is one of 21 schools – 12 of which are new this year – rec...
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Judge: Criminal drug element filling prescription void
PRESTONSBURG — As state and federal agencies tighten their grips on pill pipelines, other serious drugs, with their own unique problems, are beginning to see resurgence in Eastern Kentucky, warned Floyd District Judge Eric Hall, during a meeting Tuesday of the Communities Against Drug Addiction. Hall was the guest speaker during Tuesday’s meeting of Communities Against Drug Addiction (CADA), and took time to discuss current law enforcement ...
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Perry County residents face flood cleanup
HAZARD — Residents in the Perry County community of Big Creek started cleanup after a flash flood hit the area late Monday night, flooding the local elementary school, homes and vehicles, while other property in the area sustained damage as well. No classes are currently in session, but staff at Big Creek Elementary will have a major cleanup job ahead of them after several inches of water entered the school. Administrators and central off...
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Police seeking public’s help in catching bank robber
LOUISA — Police have released security-camera photos in an attempt to catch a man responsible for the Friday robbery of the Louisa branch of Inez Deposit Bank. According to details released by KSP Post 14, in Ashland, an unidentified man entered the bank shortly before 3 p.m., Friday, demanding money from a teller. The clerk complied and the man fled on foot through a back door onto Lock Avenue. He was last seen headed toward Madison Street...
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For the Record
MARRIAGES Betsy Johnson Frazier to Roger Gene Nelson II both of Prestonsburg. Samantha Marie Stephens to Brandon Lee May both of Prestonsburg. Kortney Nicole Ward to Gordon Colby Tackett both of Bevinsville. Geneva Diane Boyd to Jared N Reynolds, both of Ivel. Rebecca Dawn Hicks to James Barkley Howell both of Prestonsburg. Jolean Faye Goble to Michael Eugene Blackburn both of Prestonsburg. Pamela Ann Tackett of Weeksbury to Ga...
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Johnson man pleads guilty to the murder of his parents.
LOUISA — A Johnson County man pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of murder for the 2012 death of his parents. According to law enforcement officials, William “Willie” Blanton, 30, of Oil Springs, entered a guilty plea to two counts of murder, tampering with physical evidence, and being a persistent felony offender. The charges all stem from the murder of Blanton’s parents, Larry and Sandra Blanton. According to his plea, agreed upon in Law...
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Two Floyd teens killed in Pike wreck
VIRGIE — An early-morning accident has left two Floyd County teens dead. According to Kentucky State Police, Jonathan Newsome, 18, of Teaberry, was driving a 1999 Mustang south on Route 3501 around 2 a.m., Friday, when he failed to negotiate a left-hand turn onto Route 1469. The vehicle then struck an earth embankment. The vehicle had a total of eight occupants at the time of the crash, none of whom were wearing seat belts. Newsome and pa...
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Stumbo explains use of multi-county coal severance for Rupp, will push to repay it
FRANKFORT – Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo said that the use of excess multi-county coal severance revenue to move Rupp Arena renovations forward is not an unprecedented concept, and that he will also work to see the $2.5 million is re-paid as the Fayette County project moves forward. “In the wake of Wednesday’s story about this issue, I want to first clarify that the multi-county coal severance fund is not used by counties to fund ever...
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Updates sought for Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory
LOUISVILLE — The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky asks your help to update the Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local groups working on health related issues in the Commonwealth.. This first revision of the 2012 directory is designed to identify additional coalitions and update group contact information. More than 140 active coalitions are listed in the Foundation’s current Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory. “These are lo...
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Where there’s smoke …
PRESTONSBURG — A Floyd County man found himself with little excuse when deputies appeared at his home to investigate a marijuana complaint. Chief Deputy Greg Clark said the suspect was smoking marijuana on the back porch of his Shadow Cat Alley home, when police arrived. “You can’t really dispute that,” Clark said. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office received a tip that Winston Dillon Jr., 49, was growing marijuana. When they arrived at h...
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Rebuilding West Liberty attends Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting
CHICAGO — Rebuilding West Liberty, an initiative aimed at reconstructing a small rural town nearly destroyed last year by horrific tornadoes, attended today the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America annual meeting. Tim Conley, the Morgan County Judge/Executive, told members of the CGI America Residential Energy Efficiency Working Group that affordable and energy efficient housing is a key to helping break the cycle of poverty. “Even before ...
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Board, community advisory committee nominations sought
LOUISVILLE — The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is now accepting nominations for qualified persons to join its Board of Directors and Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The 15 member Board and 31 member CAC are the Foundation’s two governing bodies. The Board of Directors is responsible for preserving the Foundation’s endowment and upholding its charitable mission of addressing the unmet health care needs of Kentuckians. Nominations are...
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New section of Route 680 open to traffic soon
Another section of Route 680 – the Harold to Minnie Connector – is expected to open for traffic soon, perhaps as early as the end of next week. According to Darold Slone, PE, Project Delivery and Preservation Branch Manager at Highway District 12 of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the section that extends the new road to the temporary tie-in with Route 979 at Branham’s Creek could open as soon as Friday, June 21. At the same time, Ro...
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Sierra Club, AEP reach deal on Big Sandy plant
FRANKFORT – Sierra Club and American Electric Power recently reached an agreement in principal that would resolve the future of power generation in Eastern Kentucky after the retirement of the coal fired generators at the Big Sandy Power Plant near Louisa, in 2015. The proposed deal commits American Electric Power subsidiary Kentucky Power to invest in a host of clean energy and energy efficiency programs along with a focus on new low-incom...
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Auxier, Maytown students sought for study
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Students who attended Auxier High School or Maytown High School between 1960 and 1963 were part of a nationwide study about American youth. Now, researchers are hoping to find them once again, to follow up and see where life has taken them. Project Talent was a peek into the lives of 440,000 students from across the country. Students took a test over the course of several days, measuring their interests, career plans and ...
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