Ralph Davis

Utility crews have made significant progress restoring power around the region over the past 24 hours, with outages now totaling less than a third of what they were at their height. Fewer than 6,000 customers are now without power across the service areas of Kentucky Power, Big Sandy RECC and Licking Valley RECC. That’s down from more than 21,000 on Monday. That improvement extended to Johnson County, which was the hardest hit county in the region. At the height of the outage, Johnson County had more than 5,400 customers without power. At 11:30 Wednesday morning that number was down to […]

Deputies were called to the scene of the shooting on Ford's Gap Road in Auxier. When they arrived, the neighbor told police that his son was outside with their dog, when Austin Sykes, 19, walked onto their property, said he was going to shoot their dog, then fired a 9 mm handgun twice, hitting the dog once behind its head.

Cameron Drake Newsome, 25, of Williamson, pleaded guilty Jan. 3 to one count of producing child pornography. In doing so, he admitted to using his cell phone to take two photographs of a 3-year-old's genitals. He also admitted to storing those pictures in an online account where he had stored numerous other child porn photos and videos.

Michael Shane Brown, 41, of Feds Creek, was arrested for his murder in Virginia later that day, and Anthony Clyde Browning, 30, of Thacker, W.Va., was arrested in Mingo County on Tuesday. Both men were charged with Lester's murder.

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — The prosecutor over the Amber Spradlin murder case is asking the judge to provide clarification on the amount of time one of the defendants can spend at his restaurant.

PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Pikeville Medical Center is pleased to announce the addition of Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Samir Softic, MD, who recently joined the pediatric medical staff at the Mettu Children's Hospital.