Eastern News

Fifteen people were arrested on charges related to the forgery of Oxycontin prescriptions in Central and Eastern Kentucky, state Attorney General Jack Conway said Tuesday.

Gov. Steve Beshear was in town Wednesday to dedicate the completion of the KY 519 reconstruction project.

On Saturday in Indianapolis, University of Louisville graduate Monica Marks, 23, was named the latest Rhodes Scholar.

The final defendant has pleaded guilty in a large drug case that gave police new insight into the kind of interstate pill smuggling that has grown to staggering proportions in Kentucky in the past few years.

Eastern Kentucky native Monica Marks defied the odds by making it to college - something no one in her extended family had done.

Eastern Kentucky University's efforts at making a more energy efficient campus are about 75 percent complete, school officials say, with a goal of being done by the spring of 2010.

A Cincinnati doctor plans to plead guilty in one of the largest documented schemes to smuggle prescription drugs into Eastern Kentucky from other states.

Gov. Steve Beshear today announced a collaborative effort between the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to fund a project placing entrepreneurial instruction in elementary and middle schools in 18 designated counties.

From a strip-mined bluff at the edge of this town of 4,800, nestled in eastern Kentucky's mountains, you can see one of the most concentrated and diverse sets of medical facilities in rural America: a general hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a university-based rural health care center and clinics for primary care, cancer, urology, cardiology, ...

Some Eastern Kentucky drama students were named to the Kentucky Theatre Association's All-State Cast this weekend.

Kentucky State Police in eastern Kentucky say two people have been found slain in Carter County.

A small bridge in eastern Kentucky now bears the name of a Fort Campbell soldier killed last year in Afghanistan.

Smoke is still rising from a fire that destroyed an apartment building and an eastern Kentucky church.

An Eastern Kentucky teacher has been arrested at school on intoxication and drug charges.

A fire breaks out in one Eastern Kentucky community leaving several homeless and thousands without power and phone service.

Here in the mountains, many of us are taking some time today to honor those who have served our country.

The 5th Congressional District, which includes Floyd County, has been named the most unhappy district in the nation, based on the results of a recent survey.

A forest ranger said dozens of blazes are burning across eastern Kentucky and many appear to be intentionally set.

Kentucky transportation cabinet officials say the permits, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are difficult to get now.

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.