Crab Orchard News

Coroner has confirmed to us that Sheriff Jerry Combs has died. The Madison County Sheriff was found Monday evening in the garden at his Berea home. The coroner says the 61-year-old died of an apparent heart attack. He was pronounced dead at Berea Hospital.

Lincoln County's Board of Education has voted unanimously to expand a federal free meals program to include more than half of the district's students.

A Lincoln County man who was arrested last week after state police found tens of thousands of dollars worth of stolen items on his property was arrested again today after more stolen property was confiscated from his land.

Local residents affected by a shooting incident along Simpson Road are seen talking in the front yard of property belonging to David Brummett, 45, Thursday morning.

A Lincoln County teenager and her grandfather were airlifted from the scene of a domestic shooting on Simpson Road this morning after the man allegedly shot the young woman and then turned the gun on himself.

Police are trying piece together what happened early Thursday morning when a Crab Orchard man and his teenage granddaughter were wounded at the man's home, Kentucky State Trooper Paul Blanton said.

Every Lincoln County student from preschool through sixth grade could be eating breakfast and lunch for free next year if the board of education approves a plan to expand a federal free-meals program.

A Garrard County grand jury has indicted a Stanford man on charges that he twice forced a woman to have sex with him.