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9/24/25 Circuit   Joann Tiffany Howard vs Wild Howard- motion hr Darien Hudson vs Kenneth Caudill- motion hr Howard Wild vs Cabinet for Family/Health- motion hr Douglas …

The Owsley County Fiscal Court met in regular session on Monday, September 8, 2025.   The meeting was called to order by Judge Executive Zeke Little.   Everyone stood and recited the Pledge …

District 9/11/25 Commonwealth vs; Carson Bishop- preliminary; fail to maintain insurance, posses meth 1st deg Tasha Wilson- pretrial con; unlawful transaction w/ child 3rd deg …

Please click through images  All detainees innocent until proven guilty.   No detainees un-printed by request- NO EXCEPTIONS!  

According to arrest citations, 8 people of Owsley County, 4 women and 4 men, were arrested on drug charges stemming from a federal undercover drug operation that begin in 2024 with the help of local authorities, including Booneville Police Chief Claude Hudson.

Six more Kentucky counties have been certified as Recovery Ready Communities, signaling that they have the services needed to help their residents recover from addiction. That brings the total to 31 …

Please click through images. All detainees innocent until proven guilty.   No detainees un-printed by request- NO EXCEPTIONS!  

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams announced on Thursday that student Alyson Marinich of Bluegrass Middle School in Hardin County is the winner of the 2025 “I …

According to Econostrum, a long-standing housing grant that has helped thousands of families own homes in rural America could soon disappear. The program’s removal is part of Donald …

District 9/4/25 Commonwealth vs; Andrew N Spencer- pretrial con Jimmy D Campbell- pretrial con Thomas W Callahan- preliminary; posses stolen firearm Rodney Dodson- pretrial …

The Owsley County Board of Education met in regular session on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.Roll was taken by Board Secretary Betty Jo Neeley.   A motion was made and carried to review/approve the …

When James Neeley set sail from northern Ireland in 1740 for what would soon become the United States, he brought with him copper pot stills – tools of the trade for what would eventually …

8/28/25 District Commonwealth vs the following;   Jamie Gabbard Smith- arraignment; DUI   Dusty Lee Mayes- pretrial con; fail to maintain insurance   Koby M Smith- …

If child care were more available and affordable in the state, around 16,000-28,000 people could join or rejoin the workforce and that could add around $600 million, conservatively, to the economy, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce estimates.   The estimate comes from a report released Thursday, which analyzed the economic impact of more affordable child care […]

LOUISVILLE — Republican megadonors Joe and Kelly Craft again joined Central Bank in bidding $10 million on a country ham for charity.  Kelly Craft, a former United Nations ambassador and 2023 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and her husband, coal executive Joe Craft, have had the winning bid at the annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast […]

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MASON COUNTY  — Tim Grosser drove his truck across a pasture toward cattle he raises with his son Andy on the farm he’s owned for more than 30 years. “It’s peaceful,” Grosser said, mentioning the smell of fresh mown hay.  “We just cut it and let it cure and rake it, roll it up, and […]

Central Appalachia — and Eastern Kentucky in particular — is running out of time to turn a century of decline into a future worth staying for. Population loss is now the coalfields’ defining trend, and in some counties it’s accelerating toward collapse. Data from the Kentucky State Data Center’s “Kentucky: By the Numbers” series shows […]

Kentucky advocates for people with Alzheimer’s are excited by new research showing that lifestyle interventions like exercising and learning can slow cognitive decline.  Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in July, The U.S. POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial showed that being social and keeping the brain active can improve brain health over […]

Heading into the respiratory illness season, states and clinicians are working to encourage pregnant patients to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services no longer recommends that they should. Along with being older and having an underlying health condition, pregnancy itself is a risk factor. Pregnant women are more […]

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