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County continues to wrestle with balancing the budget
PRESTONSBURG - Floyd County officials continued to wrestle with balancing the budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year Tuesday, during a special-called work session. The Floyd County fiscal court is facing a $600,000 shortfall in the coming year’s budget and is now faced with raising revenues or making some significant cuts. The court has examined tax increases to help generate revenues, as well as cuts to the jail, which has been the county’s la...
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Three arrested in alleged car theft ring
PRESTONSBURG — Three Floyd County men have been arrested and another is at large, after Kentucky State Police busted an auto theft ring last month at Caney Fork. Times staff reported in April that Kentucky State Police had received a tip about a stolen coal truck, but when they arrived on the scene, they found much more. Officers also found four doors, a hood and a trunk lid from a Lincoln Navigator that had been reported stolen in Prestons...
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Students rock out during Side by Side performance
PRESTONSBURG — Following a four-week unit of study at Prestonsburg Elementary, parents and community members were treated to a performance by local artists and students last Friday at the Mountain Arts Center. Prestonsburg Elementary students from Mrs. Melissa Williams third-grade class took the stage for a rousing musical and artistic performance as part of the Side by Side program. “I’m always amazed at the talented students we have her...
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<p>David Allen Campbell</p>
Complaint: Pike man produced child porn as far back as 1988
PIKEVILLE — A federal indictment handed down April 25 and unsealed last week accuses a Pike County man of producing and distributing pornographic videos of children. According to the indictment, David Allen Campbell, who is listed in jail records as 62 but lists his age as 52 on Facebook, of Pikeville, filmed videos of one prepubescent girl in 1988 and between 1995 and 1997, and another prepubescent girl over the period of a year beginning ...
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Bret Dunning
Grand jury to hear case against doctor
PRESTONSBURG — The matter of a Floyd County doctor accused of being in possession of child pornography is now in the hands of a grand jury, following a preliminary hearing in Floyd District Court on Monday. Dr. Bret A. Dunning, 50, of Dana, was arrested last week and charged with one count of possession of a matter portraying a sex performance by a minor. According to accounts from the police investigation, which were recounted during Monda...
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PHS moves graduation one day
PRESTONSBURG — Prestonsburg High School’s graduation was pushed back one day, after a scheduling conflict arose between the ceremony and several seniors competing in a state track meet. The exercise, which had been set for 7 p.m., Friday, May 17, will now be held at 5 p.m., Saturday, May 18, Principal Jerry Butcher told The Floyd County Times on Monday. According to Butcher, this is something that the school has had to contend with before...
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<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell</p>
Competing views emerge over coal jobs bill
Washington, D.C. – Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul are looking to fast track permitting with new legislation introduced on Monday which would reduce government oversight of the coal industry, despite overall growth in Central Appalachia coal mining jobs. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell introduced the bill Tuesday, which targets the Environmental Protection Agency’s coal-mining permit approval process. McConnel...
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Travis Lee Goble
Drunk driver facing additional charges
PRESTONSBURG — An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who pleaded guilty to drunk driving last week, after crashing his truck into a Prestonsburg home. According to a criminal complaint filed May 7 in Floyd District Court, Travis Lee Goble, 22, of Cow Creek, has been charged additionally with two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, first-degree criminal mischief and attempting to leave the scene of an accident. Goble was invo...
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Hazard man killed in Clay County wreck
MANCHESTER — A Hazard man was killed last week following a two vehicle collision near Manchester. Ricky Summer, 44, of Hazard was airlifted from the scene to Saint Joseph Hospital of London where he was pronounced dead by Laurel County Coroner Doug Bowling. According to Kentucky State Police, Post 11 received a report on Friday, May 3, at approximately 2:05 p.m., of a two-vehicle injury accident on the Hal Rogers Parkway, two miles west o...
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Louisa pain clinic owner convicted of theft
LOUISA — A former Eastern Kentucky pain clinic owner conceded defeat last week in Lawrence County, admitting he would be found guilty of charges that he defrauded the Medicaid program. Attorney General Jack Conway said last week that Dr. Lee Balaklaw entered an Alford plea in Lawrence Circuit Court on April 26, maintaining his innocence but conceding there was enough evidence to convict him of 10 misdemeanor counts of theft by deception und...
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FOR THE RECORD
CHARGES FILED Laurie Renick, 47, Mcdowell – alcohol intoxication. Joshua Slone, 23, Prestonsburg – criminal mischief (5 counts), public intoxication, resisting arrest, fourth degree assault. Rodney Hamilton, 46, Teaberry – alcohol intoxication. Crystal Crace, 37, Allen – public intoxication. Rachel Jarvis, 36, Allen – public intoxication. Willie Wireman, 27, Royalton – criminal trespassing, alcohol intoxication, resisting arrest, ...
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Members of the Elder Abuse Council kicked off Elder Abuse Prevention month with a baloon release Wednesday at the Big Sandy Area Development office in Pretonsburg.
Members of the Elder Abuse Council kicked off Elder Abuse Prevention month with a balloon release Wednesday at the Big Sandy Area Development office in Pretonsburg
Members of the Elder Abuse Council kicked off Elder Abuse Prevention month with a balloon release Wednesday at the Big Sandy Area Development office in Pretonsburg.
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Heather Gearheart
Heather Gearheart, Chotty Thompson and Heath Wiley meet with Shriners Hillbilly Representatives to donate a check for money raised during the 37th Annual Hillbilly Days Festivities in Pikeville this past April. Gearheart Communications, Inter Mountain Cable and Foxy 94.3 FM raised a staggering $4,150.00 for the Shriners Children Hospital in Lexington.
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Former Jailer Roger Webb, and new Jailer Cheyenne McKinney pose with Judge-Executive R.D. "Doc" Marshall. McKinney took over the Jailer duties on May 1 at 12:01 a.m.
Webb steps down, as McKinney steps in
PRESTONSBURG - Roger Webb ended his time as Jailer on Tuesday handing off the responsibility of managing the counties jail to Cheyenne R. McKinney. Floyd County Judge Executive R.D. “Doc” Marshall released an order of appointment Tuesday which made the transition of jailers official. According to the order, Roger Webb tendered his resignation at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday April 30, at which time Cheyenne McKinney took control. Marshall, whose dea...
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Dr. Bret Dunning
KSP arrests local doctor for possesion of child porn
DANA - A Floyd County man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of being in possession of child pornography. Kentucky State Police officials say that detectives from Post executed a search warrant Tuesday at the residence of Dr. Bret A. Dunning. Dunning, 50, of Dana, who owns and operates a medical clinic next door to a preschool, was arrested and lodged in the Floyd County Detention Center this past week on one count of possession of a matte...
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