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The House Judiciary Committee chairman and its Republicans are seeking a second special counsel to investigate matters related to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Hillary Clinton.
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U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana also expressed his gratitude to the five police officers and also said he would not be here today without the efforts of two of them.
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In a pull-no-punches, impromptu CNN interview that he said was authorized by the president, Anthony Scaramucci went after chief of staff Reince Priebus in graphic terms.
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Associated Press has named Alex Sanz as its new deputy director of newsgathering for the U.S. South, a position overseeing breaking news and enterprise across all media formats in 13 states.
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On Monday, attorneys in Floyd County Circuit Court presented arguments and examined witnesses in a civil case regarding an insurance company’s potential obligation to pay the former clients of fugitive former Social Security lawyer Eric C. Conn on the...

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System plans to participate in the Shaping Our Appalachian Region summit next month. The Independent reports the college system will host one session on aerospace and...
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A Kentucky National Guard member says he was shocked by President Donald Trump's announcement that he will ban transgender people from serving in the military.
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Former Gov. Julian Carroll says he won't resign his state Senate seat following a media report that a man alleged Carroll groped and propositioned him in 2005.
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U.S. health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to papayas from Mexico that has killed a person in New York City and sickened another 46 people in 12 states.
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The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in western Kentucky is offering prime viewing spots for the upcoming total solar eclipse next month.
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The Latest on the deaths of 10 people whose bodies were found in a broiling tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio (all times local):
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Officials of a Noah's Ark theme park have sold their main parcel back to a for-profit affiliate days after Kentucky's tourism agency said the park had breached an incentive agreement that would refund a portion of...
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Attorneys for President Donald Trump want a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit by protesters accusing him of ordering his supporters to rough them up at a campaign rally in Louisville last year.
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Searches are continuing Tuesday for two people missing in weekend flooding from rains that pounded parts of West Virginia and Kentucky and left one person dead.
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The named victim of a 2016 assault by a Pikeville man appeared at the man’s sentencing hearing Friday in Pike Circuit Court to ask for a more lenient sentence after the man pleaded guilty in exchange for a recommended 10-year…
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The national debt has doubled to $20 trillion since 2009. In 30 years, the Congressional Budget Office projects, it will rise to more than $90 trillion. That number is inconceivable. Author David Schwartz explains it in terms of time. One…
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A Neon man who allegedly fled law enforcement officers in March, leaving behind more than 70 grams of crystal methamphetamine, was located and arrested during a traffic stop Friday.
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A 19-year-old Kentucky man charged with injuring his infant son has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to first-degree criminal abuse of a child less than 12 years old.
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A retired western Kentucky jailer has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for running a kickback scheme during a $3 million jail expansion.
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A judge has ruled that former University of Kentucky board chairman Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro is competent to stand trial on rape and sodomy charges.
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Abortion opponents are challenging a federal restraining order that keeps them from gathering on a patch of sidewalk in front of the only clinic still performing abortions in Kentucky.
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Kentucky State Police say a police officer shot and wounded a man who refused to show a hand that he had behind his back as he walked toward officers.
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Kentucky's Senate Democratic Caucus is asking former Gov. Julian Carroll to resign his state Senate seat after a TV report alleged he groped a man in 2005.
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On Friday, in Pike Circuit Court, a former teacher in the Pike County and Floyd County school districts received a one-year diverted sentence in connection to her possession of crystal methamphetamine in April.
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Eastern Kentuckians are still crying out to their power provider, Kentucky Power, following a proposed rate increase the company submitted to the Public Service Commission earlier this summer.
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Both sides in the abortion fight raging in Kentucky agree on one thing: The stakes are as high as ever in a state that could become the first in the nation without an abortion clinic.
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Kentucky's tourism agency has suspended a tax break worth up to $18 million for a Noah's ark biblical attraction after the park transferred its main property to a nonprofit affiliate.
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A Kentucky ethics commission has unanimously dismissed a pair of complaints filed against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin over his purchase of a home from a friend and campaign donor.
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An Iraqi national who was living in Kentucky and sentenced to life in prison for terrorism-related charges has had his bid to vacate the sentence denied by a federal judge.
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A Pikeville woman who was allegedly found unconscious in a lawn chair at the dumpsters of the Westcare Homeless Shelter Tuesday night was charged with a felony after she allegedly attempted to bring prescription medication into the Pike County...

Kentucky Power is shining a light on an ongoing effort to revitalize some of the area’s coal operations through what the company calls the “Coal Plus” program.
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A divide has developed over the last two decades with a dichotomy growing wider everyday between “The Golden Triangle” — Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky — and the rest of Kentucky.
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A federal investigation revealed that the death of a Floyd County coal miner may have been prevented if the Pike County mining company had “effective programs, policies, or procedures in place.”
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A search warrant filed by Kentucky State Police Det. Jason Merlo has provided details into the finding of the body of a West Virginia man on Turkey Creek Road last month. According to the filing, a man arrested in connection…
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The City of Coal Run Village became the first city Thursday to join the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) in filing a motion to intervene in Kentucky Power’s recently requested rate adjustment, which was filed last month to the Public…
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Since Opie (former city manager, Donovan Blackburn) went into the private sector and the new sheriff is in town, things have transitioned rather smoothly. New Interim City Manager Phillip Elswick, while filling Opie’s shoes nicely, has made an...

Kentucky Power President and Chief Operating Officer Matthew Satterwhite visited Appalachian Newspapers Inc., Thursday to address concerns and lay everything out on the table in regards to the most recent rate increase request the
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Infants born dependent on opioids are routinely removed from their mothers and sent to big hospitals. But keeping mother and baby together may be the best treatment.
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The House of Representatives held a hearing Wednesday to address the opioid crisis that is currently flooding the United States. Representatives from Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Rhode Island joined together on Capitol Hill to “combat the opioid...

In March, President Trump said, “We will put our miners back to work. We are putting an end to the war on coal.” In his executive order, he directed the EPA to suspend, revise or rescind Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
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Dr. Alfred Bradley Adkins, a Pike County psychiatrist convicted of conspiring with Eric C. Conn in a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration, is seeking a new trial and home incarceration, according to motions filed in U.S. District...

Last week, the parent company of this newspaper, Appalachian Newspapers Inc., purchased two newspapers in the area and absorbed its sister paper in Paintsville. While newspapers around the country are cautious about their future, we see a great niche...

Three individuals, including the owner and developer of StoneCrest Properties in Prestonsburg, have been indicted in an alleged bank fraud conspiracy.
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The two people alleged to have buried a West Virginia man in a shallow grave on Turkey Creek after a woman allegedly murdered him appeared in Pike Circuit Court Wednesday to be re-arraigned on new indictment charges.
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