Lynch News

On Sunday, November 08, 2009, at 10:57 PM Kentucky State Police Trooper Tony Dingess was traveling on Dixie Bend Road in McCreary County, Kentucky when he smelled a strong chemical odor.

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.

The Lynch Church of God will host its annual Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Packing Party.

Among the many problems with forcibly peeling resources out of the earth is that, once they're gone, all you've got left is a gigantic hole in the ground .

Some of the region's educational leaders took a trip underground, and back in time today.

Lynch, Ky. -- Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine.

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.

Albino and Dawn Nunez, local members of the Lexington chapter of the Ky Horse Shu Kru, visited with other members, who visited Harlan recently.

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.

Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine.

Amidst several problems that are facing the city of Lynch, the council met in special session Tuesday to discuss various items, including an outstanding loan.

The Cumberland City Council will soon begin broadcasting their monthly meeting over the community channel, to help dispel rumors about how the city is being run.

Even after cutting nearly $1 billion from the enacted state budget, revenues are likely to fall as much as $161 million short of that budget's projections.

After 32 years of development and stops and starts, the Portal 31 exhibition mine of Harlan County is set to open Saturday.

Portal No. 31 mine will soon become operational once more, though this time instead of transporting coal from the mines it will transport interested museum patrons into the mines.

Three decades after the historic coal mine in Lynch played out and shut down, local officials are planning the revival of old Portal 31 as a Disney-like tourist attraction with animatronic miners and underground tours.

For the past 46 years, individuals received comfort, prayer, and assistance from a local sister at St.

Former City Clerk Kellie Maggard has been charged with stealing more than $137,000 from the city of Lynch in Harlan County.

First-timer Angela Ismailos traveled the world to interview her favorite filmmakers in the documentary "Great Directors," screening out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival.

The L&N passenger train pulled out of the station in Cumberland, and I was crying.