Jenkins News

On 10/22/2009 at approximately 01:30 am Kentucky State Police received a call of an assault occurring at the residence of Thomas Bates in the Millstone Community of Letcher County.

Local organizations that raise funds through charitable gaming say they have concerns about changes proposed by state regulators.

The Pike County Circuit Court Grand Jury handed down 10 indictments from their August term with charges ranging from rape in the second degree to escape from the custody of law enforcement.

On September 16, 2009, at 2:30 PM, officers with Kentucky State Police, the Letcher County Sheriff's Department and Jenkins Police Department responded to the scene of a fatal shooting, which occurred on Apple Tree Branch in the Deane community of Letcher County.

One man is dead and his brother shot after an argument Wednesday in Deane in Letcher County.

Richard L. Roper, 58, died Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, in Autumn Hospital. He was born June 20, 1951, in Jenkins, Ky., a son of Robert L. Roper and Edna Newberry Roper.

The remains of a former model whose killing set off an international manhunt for a reality television star were so badly mutilated that investigators had to use the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her.

Sherrae Zizmont, 20 year old female, of 382 Brushy Fork, Jenkins, KY. was killed this evening in a single vehicle collision.

The remains of a former model whose killing set off an international manhunt for a reality television star were so badly mutilated that investigators had to use the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her.

Finally, a county leader has publicly objected to the Kentucky Association of Counties' wasteful spending of taxpayer funds, including at casinos and strip clubs.

Mayfield Mayor Arthur Byrn might not think anything "sinister" is going on at the Kentucky League of Cities.

The executive committee of the Kentucky Association of Counties is investigating a second escort service charge on a KACo credit card - this time on the card of executive director Bob Arnold.

Adam Low, a 9-year-old rising fourth-grader at Farragut Intermediate School, made his first hole-in-one May 23 while golfing at Raven Rock Golf Club in Jenkins, Ky.

Police say someone is cashing bogus checks across eastern Kentucky. So far, fake checks were found in Letcher and Perry counties, but police believe there could be more.

Last week my husband and I used a couple of days off to take a trip to Knoxville to see one of our favorite bands, which is touring this summer for the first time in six years.

Authorities were busy Wednesday rounding up 22 people suspected of illegally selling drugs, mostly oxycodone, in Menifee County.

On 5/21/09 at 0830 hrs KSP Hazard received a call from J & A Mining Company at Friday Branch in Letcher County, reporting a rock truck driver had backed over the dump site.

Investigators say Stewart was taken to Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A coal miner has died after the rock truck he was driving ran over an embankment at an eastern Kentucky coal mine and overturned.

My grandfather always kept an air compressor ready for anyone who needed it at the old family grocery/post office/VW garage, and I suspect he would have been either amused or angry at the idea of a business charging anyone for air.