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Students from Prestonsburg Elementary will compete in next months Kentucky Speech League state competition in Lexington.
PES forensics students headed to state
Students from one Floyd County school will be traveling to Lexington next month to compete in the Kentucky Speech League state competition. Supt. Henry Webb announced Thursday that Prestonsburg Elementary students Shelby Blackburn, Katelyn Bingham, Emma Thompson, Emma Justice and Chelsea Reynolds will be competing March 14-16 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. “The board team and I congratulate Shelby, Katelyn, Emma, Emma and Ch...
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2013 a breather before hectic 2014 elections
There will be no elections in Floyd County in 2013, but that layoff will set the stage for a huge slate of races in 2014. According to County Clerk Chris Waugh, 2013 is the scheduled year where there are no elections to be voted upon in Floyd County. But Waugh says that the lack of races this year is but the calm before next year’s storm. The May primary will feature elections for all county offices, including judge-executive, jailer, she...
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<p>Eric C. Conn</p>
More questions than answers in Conn lawsuit
PIKEVILLE — The federal lawsuit against Eric C. Conn could eventually have implications for some of his Social Security clients, but those individual cases are not up for scrutiny in current case, which was filed against the well-known Floyd County lawyer and an administrative law judge who acted as his alleged rubber stamp. According to a complaint filed in 2011 in United States District Court in Pikeville, and which only became public Tue...
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Paul returns $600K in savings from office budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a press conference Wednesday in Louisville, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul announced he will be returning $600,000 to the United States Treasury – money unspent from his official operating budget. The total amount being returned is more than 20 percent of Sen. Paul’s original office budget. Sen. Paul returned $500,000 to the Treasury last year, bringing the total in money unspent from his operating budget to $1.1 million since he...
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St. Joe to host ‘Go Red’ event
PRESTONSBURG — Valentine’s Day is already past, but St. Joseph Martin is joining with the American Heart Association in hopes of touching a few women’s hearts this week. The hospital will be hosting its annual “Go Red for Women” event at noon, Friday, in the Wilkinson Stumbo Convention Center, at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. The event was planned to coincide with American Heart Month and will place a spotlight on the benefits of nutriti...
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<p>Jeremiah Young</p>
Pike inmate walks away from work detail
PIKEVILLE — Police continue to search for an inmate who escaped from the Pike County Detention Center last week. According to Kentucky State Police, Jeremiah Young, 24, walked away from a work-release detail Thursday. Young is described as 6 feet tall and 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing green pants with the word “inmate” written on them. Young is a Class D felon who was serving a four-year sentence, aft...
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Man killed in Magoffin wreck
SALYERSVILLE — A Magoffin County man was killed early Monday morning, after he was involved in a single-vehicle accident. Kentucky State Police received a call shortly before 5 a.m., reporting the wreck on Route 114. Trooper Jimmy Stratton responded to the scene. Police say that Rodney Humphrey, 31, of Salyersville, was driving east on Route 114, when he lost control of his vehicle and went off the right side of teh road. Humphrey’s car w...
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Thousands of Ky. veterans could get health insurance under Medicaid expansion
Nearly 11,000 Kentucky veterans without health insurance and thousands of their family members could gain coverage if the state moves forward with the Medicaid expansion currently under consideration, according to a new policy brief by the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (KCEP). 1.3 million U.S. veterans—including 22,000 here in Kentucky—lack health insurance. Nationally, almost half of these veterans would qualify for coverage if all s...
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CEO says hemp could pay huge dividends
PIKEVILLE — While much of the debate over whether to legalize industrial hemp centers around the crop’s potential for a Kentucky agriculture industry that has been decimated by the fall of Big Tobacco, one area business leader says the big money lies in a different direction. Industrial hemp has been a hot topic of debate in both Frankfort and Washington, as the state Senate passed a bill to legalize the crop in Kentucky, 31-6. The bill fac...
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Nursing home gun case sent to grand jury
PRESTONSBURG — Philip Baldridge appeared in Floyd County District Court Tuesday after being charged by police last week with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Baldridge, 55, of Prestonsburg, was arrested last Monday after reports he was seen carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle near a nursing home. According to Prestonsburg Police Officer George Tussey, who appeared in court to testify in the preliminary hearing, Baldridge ...
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Conn accused of fraud totaling millions
Stanville attorney Eric C. Conn is accused of defrauding the government of millions of dollars through his disability claims. In a story published Tuesday afternoon on the Lexington Herald-Leader’s website, a complaint was filed against Conn in U.S. District Court in Pikeville, alleging that Conn acquired payments from handling disability claims fraudulently approved by former West Virginia judge David Daugherty. Daugherty and Conn’s rela...
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Earth moving work began this week at the site of the new Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad headquarters to be located near the mouth of Cliff in Prestonsburg.
Work begins on new rescue squad HQ
PRESTONSBURG — Earth moving work began this week on the groundbreaking for the construction of the new headquarters of the Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad. The Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad has called its current headquarters home since the group’s founding in 1958. The all-volunteer organization was founded following the tragic school bus disaster which claimed the lives of 26 school children and their driver. The buildin...
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<p>Charly Hyden</p>
Two headed to state high school academic competition
PAINTSVILLE — Two Floyd County high school students will be headed to Louisville next month, to compete in the Governor’s Cup state academic competition. Charly Hyden, a senior at South Floyd High School, placed second in English composition during regional competition at Johnson Central High School over the weekend. This will make the second consecutive year Hyden has competed at the state level in composition. John Holbrook, a sophomore...
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Grethel store robbed Friday night
GRETHEL — Police are asking the public for help finding a man who robbed a convenience store over the weekend. Kentucky State Police reports receiving a report of an armed robbery Friday night that VIP Fuels. According to police, an unidentified man walked into the store, wearing a ski mask and blue hooded shirt. The man showed the clerk a weapon and demanded cash. After receiving an undisclosed amount of money, the man fled the store on ...
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