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A 37-year-old has been arrested, accused of child neglect after a 2-year-old was allegedly left in a parked car at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
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The lieutenant is the first female officer complete the Infantry Officer Course since the Marines opened all military occupational specialties to women in April 2016.
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According to the league's game operations manual, the national anthem must be played prior to every game, and all players must be present on the sidelines when it is played.
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Sen. Luther Strange and challenger Roy Moore made their final push Monday to sway voters with the help of big-name supporters ahead of Alabama’s Republican runoff for U.S. Senate.
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“Where we go from here is determined by who we want to be a nation,” Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said to open up discussion with Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar...

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he will not vote for the latest Republican health care bill, calling last-minute changes designed to send more money to states with undecided senators as "suspicious." Paul told reporters...
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The Congressional Budget Office released its preliminary analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill on Monday saying that millions of people with comprehensive health insurance would lose coverage.
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Kentucky's Democratic attorney general says he will not comply with the Republican governor's request for a plan to cut spending by more than 17 percent.
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Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he will not vote for the latest Republican health care bill, calling last-minute changes designed to send more money to states with undecided senators as "suspicious."
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Memo to Republican senators: Many of the states President Donald Trump won last year would lose significant federal financing under the last-ditch Republican health care bill headed for a possible showdown in the Senate...
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An investigation has found no criminal wrongdoing by workers at a West Virginia residential care facility after a teenager escaped, stole a van and was involved in a fatal crash.
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A psychologist convicted of helping an eastern Kentucky disability lawyer defraud the government of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul made a stop in Prestonsburg on Thursday on a tour of Eastern Kentucky, holding roundtable discussions throughout the region on issues of business and healthcare.
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Members of the Trinity Harvest Church community participated in a number of events and activities this week to reach out to the community while preparing for its Impact Sunday services.
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A former Girl Scouts leader who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $15,000 worth of Girl Scouts cookies was sentenced Friday to serve two years in prison for the crime.
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A spokesman says the Army post where a helicopter crashed, killing two pilots, has implemented all of the recommendations of an investigative report in order to prevent similar accidents.
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The country's largest electric company is publishing federally mandated maps that it previously refused to publish, showing what could happen to neighboring properties if a coal-ash pit burst.
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Three people have been arrested in connection to a break-in at a funeral home in Kentucky where several items were taken from a man whose body was awaiting burial.
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A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a boy delivered after his mother died when an overloaded van overturned on a southwestern Indiana highway.
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State officials say they've reached a purchase agreement for a former electric plant site in southeastern Indiana as a possible new Ohio River shipping port.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has espoused a limited role for judges in a speech in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who championed his confirmation.
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A panel of historic properties advisers in Kentucky has recommended removing a plaque from a statue of Jefferson Davis that identifies the only president of the Confederacy as a "patriot, hero, statesman."
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An Army report says an improperly installed part caused a helicopter to crash in rural Tennessee, killing the two 101st Airborne Division pilots aboard.
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For the first time since 2014, the Pikeville Independent Schools Board of Education voted Tuesday to raise its property tax rates, changing them from 71.8 cents to 73.3 cents.
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With his sentencing scheduled for Friday, Dr. Alfred Bradley Adkins, a clinical psychologist convicted of working with Eric C. Conn to pass off fraudulent medical evidence to support disability claims, has submitted his objections to the federal...

A rogue distillery worker at the center of a bourbon-heist scheme that spirited away tens of thousands of dollars' worth of liquor has pleaded guilty in a case that has already secured a place in Kentucky lore.
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Kentucky will visit Texas A&M next season for the first time since 1952 in a 2018 schedule that includes Southeastern Conference road games at Florida, Missouri and Tennessee.
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The City of Coal Run Village has completed its annual audit and is sitting on a reserve of almost $2 million, according to financial statements discussed during last week’s city commission meeting.
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Three educators in the Pike County School System were honored by the board of education at its meeting Thursday evening, each receiving an “Above and Beyond” award for their service.
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The Walk to End Alzheimer’s was held Saturday at the Pikeville City Park. Nearly 200 participants registered for the walk. The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and…
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A University of Louisville researcher who studies a dental disease that affects a large population of Americans has earned a nearly $2 million grant to further his work.
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A Kentucky ethics commission says a former Personnel Cabinet official used his position to solicit campaign contributions from co-workers to support then-Gov. Steve Beshear.
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By The Associated Press The top Democrat in the Republican-led Kentucky Senate is looking to switch jobs by running for judge-executive in Pike County.
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A state investigation has found an employee at a Charleston residential care facility lied about checking on a 13-year-old boy before the youth stole a van and died in a crash in March.
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Why can’t we all just get along? That’s what I was thinking as I read the story about the airport board meeting. In a nutshell, there were three things discussed that made a big stink at the last meeting. They…
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A Turkey Creek woman and West Virginia man charged in connection to the June death of an older West Virginia man appeared in Pike Circuit Court Tuesday as part of a pretrial hearing.
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After appointing a new mayor pro tempore (pro tem) at the Pikeville City Commission meeting Monday, the commission also announced the opening of three new positions available in the city’s police and fire departments.
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In December, the Frankfort Convention Center, the home of the Mid-South Conference collegiate Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments and MSC Cheerleading Championship, will be demolished.
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With two massive hurricanes as a metaphorical set of bookends, President Trump followed through with an earlier threat that he would unleash a political storm in Washington to move his agenda forward, with or without the Republican congressional...

A Pikeville man who was allegedly found in a residence after burglarizing another and a Louisville man who allegedly broke into four locations, and burglarized two of them were among the indictments handed down this week by a Pike grand…
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When will the blatant arrogance end? You would think that when the whistle blows, the accused would exercise a little caution in their business dealings. Even Eric Conn had enough sense to stop bribing the judges when he got caught.
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The Pike County Fiscal Court announced this week that an answer is expected soon in regards to the county’s $400,000 loan to RCL Chemical, the parent company of RCC Big Shoal. Questions remain, however, if that answer will come in…
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Reports of an alleged burglary in process Tuesday led the Pikeville Police Department to the arrest of a man before he was able to leave the residence.
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In a wide range of health issues, Eastern Kentucky lags behind the rest of the state, and Kentucky as a whole is doing poorer than national averages, according to a recent study from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Robert Wood Johnson…
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A Pike County Sheriff’s Office investigation into alleged improper communication between a 28-year-old Pikeville man and a minor has resulted in a felony charge.
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The late Lowell Reece, a Pike County native, sounded the alarm about the pension crisis decades ago. His concerns were real, because we are right now amid a pension crisis. The most egregious example is the exorbitant legislative pensions of…
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