Several people attended the Lawrence County Fiscal Court meeting Monday to ask that the court not support a group's plan to seek funding for a new drug rehabilitation center called Odyssey.
An inmate at the United States Penitentiary Big Sandy in Inez, Ky. was sentenced Friday to 18 years and three months in prison for assaulting several corrections officers at the penitentiary.
Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that he has approved an increase in the number of mine inspectors and the number of mining permit reviewers in the Energy and Environment Cabinet.
U.S. Congressman Harold a oeHala Rogers announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Morehead State University with a $235,620 Rural Health Care Grant to continue to bring community wellness and health care services to Martin County.
Sherry Bolner and Jean-Marie Young say they'd love to get their hands on the person who stole Bolner's enclosed utility trailer over Labor Day weekend.
Martin County Sheriff Gorman Preece and several of his deputies made five arrests on a variety of drug-related charges, including child endangerment for a couple making meth in a home with children.
Morehead State Universitya s East Kentucky Small Business Development Center in Paintsville will host a oeStarting Your Own Business 101a on Tuesday, June 23, at 5:30 p.m. The workshop, which is for persons that have a desire to start their own business, will be held at the Martin County Cooperative Extension Service Office, 1338 Main Street, Inez.