Allen News

A long-time minister in eastern Kentucky is dead after he was involved in a traffic accident.

John R. Pelphrey 81, years old, of Allen, Ky., was pronounced dead at the scene by Floyd County Coroner Greg Nelson after he attempted to pull across the southbound lanes of U.S.23 driving a 2008 Toyota Rav 4 and collided with Terri L. Edwards of Prestonsburg, KY.

IEC of the Bluegrass will present the following six-hour Kentucky- and Ohio-approved electrical continuing education classes at the IEC Training Center, 493 Blue Sky Parkway: Business and Employment Law, Business Practices and Compliance With OSHA, A Practical Approach, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov.

By Becky Manley / Staff Writer The attorney for the former Knox-Whitley Animal Shelter president charged with forgery and theft has asked the entire jury panel be disqualified because the commonwealth's attorney's wife and employee are on the randomly selected list of potential jurors.

By Becky Manley / Staff Writer About 14 Girl Scouts, many in brown T-shirts accented with pink ribbons that read "Fight like a girl," served meals to cancer survivors and their families Thursday.

"It's something you'd never believe, something you'd never think would happen," said Will Callahan's brother, Travis on Monday.

The rise in the market price of copper is suspected to be a major factor in the recent rash of copper telephone cable thefts in Floyd County.

Elva Sears Jones passed away at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital Thursday, Oct.

Henry Allen Laine dedicated his life to education and the fight for equal rights for African Americans.

A West Virginia man was indicted Thursday on a charge of first-degree trafficking in controlled substances for allegedly attempting to ship "magic mushrooms" from Richmond back to his home state.

" A Wayland woman who police said had been hiding from them since June was arrested in Prestonsburg this past weekend on a burglary facilitation charge.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor Authors are dropping dead onstage during Corbin High School's latest theatrical production, "Murder by the Book." In CHS's first performance of the season, nine members of The Raven Society, assuming the persona of their favorite authors of classical literature, have arrived for their annual weekend retreat in ...

Work continued Wednesday morning on temporary crossover lanes along the wesbound side of I64, just east of the Catlettsburg exit.

Work on a temporary crossover route to move traffic past a collapsed embankment on I-64 was completed on Wednesday evening.

An embankment failure on Interstate 64 near Catlettsburg may take months to repair and motorists should continue to be prepared for delays and traffic detours, a highway spokesman said Tuesday.

You could see the cracks in the road growing larger even as highway workers and engineers delivered heavy equipment and devised a plan to repair an embankment slip that closed westbound lanes of Interstate 64 Monday morning.

Police in Somerset say an explosion of an apparent methamphetamine lab seriously burned a man in his apartment.

" Contracts were signed Friday to hand over the land at German Bridge Campground and Dewey Lake that will eventually become a long-planned horse trail.

The Ninth Annual Bluegrass Classic is a 60 lap race at Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, Kentucky.

By Samantha Swindler/Managing Editor It's having a grand opening this Saturday - but the Corbin Railroad Museum is far from complete.