Keavy News

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor Though the baskets have gone out and the needy have been fed, the Corbin Lions Club has fundraised only half its goal for its Christmas baskets this year.

Laurel County School Board members attended to details on completed and ongoing construction projects Monday, approving several items.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor A Keavy soldier who made headlines in 2008 when he surprised his daughter while on leave from Iraq is trying to win plane tickets home for Christmas.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor With the holiday season approaching, Judy Hicks found a way to both honor the memory of her late father, Ellis Wells, while doing something special for local children.

A Keavy couple entered Alford pleas in federal court late Friday they conspired to harm a confidential informant with law enforcement who helped facilitate the arrest of one of the defendant's relatives.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Christina Rose Denham and Brandon Bruce Pitman on Friday entered Alford pleas to charges they threatened a confidential informant who aided in the arrest of one of the defendant's relatives.

A Laurel County couple pleads guilty to threatening a confidential informant. 33-year old Christina Denham and 28-year old Brandon Pitman of Keavy are accused of trying to retaliate against a state police informant that bought drugs off Denham's aunt, Judy Wilder, in January.

Tara Prewitt, 24, of Keavy, died Tuesday when the Kia Optima she was driving apparently slid out of control and was T-boned by a Southern Belle Dairy delivery truck on KY 363 just north of Storms Lane in the Keavy area.

By Carl Keith Greene Staff Writer A federal court trial for three arrested in Keavy and charged with drug, explosives and firearm crimes has been set for Dec.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor A 23-year-old woman was killed when her four-door Kia Optima collided with a milk truck on KY 363 in Keavy.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Nearly 300 Keavy school students and staff stood and cheered Wednesday morning when employees of the Wal-Mart Distribution Center in London presented the school with $500 worth of classroom supplies.

By Becky Manley / Staff Writer Firefighters battled a stubborn fire early Monday that took about four hours to extinguish and left a home uninhabitable.

Construction at North Laurel High School and Colony, Johnson and Keavy elementary schools are on track to be completed by the summer.

Fire investigators are on the scene of a house fire in the Keavy area of London.

An 82-year-old Keavy woman lost her life in a fire Sunday night on East KY 312. The Keavy Volunteer Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire shortly after 8 p.m. at 2748 Laurel Lake North Road.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer "I lost a good neighbor. She was a quiet neighbor," said retired geologist Bill Hopper Monday morning as he looked over the smoldering remains of the home where Judy Colby, 82, died Sunday night.

On Sunday, October 04, 2009, at approximately 8:39 PM the Kentucky State Police, Post 11, in London was notified by the Laurel County 911 Dispatch Center of a residential fire at a residence on Laurel Lake Road North in southern Laurel, County.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer A complaint Wednesday of methamphetamine production at a Keavy home sent local Drug Enforcement Administration officers to the home of Daryl G. Arnold II, 39.

A woman has died in a southeastern Kentucky house fire. WKYT-TV in Lexington reported the fire Sunday night occurred in the Keavy community of Laurel County at a home on U.S. 192.

Every school in Laurel County will now have its own school nurse, as revealed to school board members Monday night.