Cumberland News

DEBBIE CALDWELL/ Daily Enterprise Eighteen people were arrested Friday morining in the Tri-Cities area during a roundup by the Harlan County Sheriffa s Office.

Dr. Rachel Lewis-Shelton, a Harlan County native, was recently featured in Southern Kentucky Health and Family Journal for her work with breast cancer patients.

The City of Burnside has a new police officer. Matthew L. Brown was officially sworn into duty by Mayor Chuck Fourman Monday at the November council meeting.

Annual Haunted Hayride on Halloween Night @ Midnight. Enjoy real haunted stories as you ride through the scary places that are still said to be haunted.

U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Community Services has approved a $600,000 grant for the Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation to create 40 jobs in Cumberland.

Another H1N1 Death Reported Lake Cumberland Area Location of second death approximately 70 miles from Adair County, KY By Amy Tomlinson, LCDHD The Lake Cumberland District Health Department is reporting the death of a McCreary County resident as the second H1N1 influenza-associated death in the area.

On 10/24/2009 at 8:20 pm, Kentucky State Police Post 10 Harlan responded to a child abuse call from Harlan ARH.

The last of three people involved in an April home invasion pleaded guilty to related charges last week in circuit court.

State police have charged a Harlan County man with abusing his 3-month-old son. Carl C. Crider, 25, of Cumberland allegedly squeezed his son's abdomen.

A prowler in the Cumberland Manor apartments Friday night wasn't sly enough to avoid being caught.

This June 2009 photo released by Southeast Community College shows an animatronic miner loading coal onto a transport car as another prepares to haul it out of Portal 31, a tourist mine in Lynch, Ky.

The Somerset Fire Department and a HAZMAT team responded to a fire in a City of Somerset Sanitation truck yesterday afternoon.

PORTAL 31: Coal mine tour in Lynch, Ky.; kingdomcome.org/portal/index.html or 606-848-1530. Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $10; seniors, $9; high school and college students, $7; children under 12, $5; children under 3, free.

The Lake Cumberland region has recorded its first confirmed death related to the H1N1 flu virus, health officials announced.

Health officials in Somerset are reporting a swine flu death, bringing the state's total to eight.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor Tuesday's Cumberland River cleanup in Barbourville was part volunteer work, part class assignment.

Swine flu update: Taylor Co., KY has 24 cases since Aug. 1, 2009 Kentucky Health Alert has a story dated Wednesday, October 14, 2009, which reported the 6th Swine Flu death in Kentucky , and Scott County's second.

The Lake Cumberland District Health Department in south-central Kentucky has scheduled flu clinics to give doses of the nasal spray vaccine.

Finance Department We have over 20 banks onsite and ready to meet whatever needs you may have.

Mine Portal 31 in Harlan County was shut down over 40 years ago, but its lights are now back on.