Manchester News

Hundreds of jobs are coming soon to Clay County courtesy of a Florida-based recycling company.

The United States Postal Service is considering consolidating London's postal processing plant with the one in Lexington, a move that would put locals out of work.

Since news broke that Bill Sparkman's lifeless body was found in Clay County with the word "fed" written on his chest, the mystery surrounding his death has triggered nationwide media attention.

Share + Oct 23, 2009 10:31 pm US/Eastern MANCHESTER, Ky. An eastern Kentucky city where the poverty rate is three times the national average is in line for hundreds of new jobs after landing a factory that will recycle household garbage.

In a unanimous decision, the Manchester City Council votes to purchase the land that will be the future location of a waste conversion plant.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Two men and a woman were indicted Friday by the Laurel County grand jury on assault charges.

Stacy McCain decided to go to Manchester, Ky., to see what he could see . First report from the scene details the gross MSM misrepresentation of remarks made by a local lady on the hanging death of the census worker.

"Just a few hundred yards west of Big Double Creek Road, on the right side of Arnetts Fork Road, there is a concrete bridge where a small unpaved road crosses a shallow stream.

I just got off the phone with Stacy McCain , who has arrived in Manchester, KY, which is in Clay County near the center of the Sparkman murder investigation.

Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky, his feet and hands duct-taped and the word "fed" scrawled on his chest.

MANCHESTER, Ky. -- Political prejudice against Republicans isn't the only bias that undermines the mainstream media's credibility.

I jut got off the phone with Stacy McCain who was practically projecting himself through my cell phone, he was so excited.

As US police probed the death of a census worker found strung from a tree in Kentucky with "Fed" written across his chest, speculation swirled that he had been killed by rabid foes of the federal government and President Barack Obama.

Authorities said a U.S. Census worker died by asphyxiation but were releasing few other details about the mysterious case nearly two weeks after Bill Sparkman's body - with the word "fed" scrawled on the chest - was found hanging from a tree near a family cemetery secluded by Appalachian forest.

Submitted by Bill on Sat, 2009-09-26 15:53. Graves dot a hillside at the Hoskins Cemetery in rural Clay County near Manchester, Ky., Thursday, Sept.

Good news stories don't come often for Clay County. When it comes to national news, the rural county about 170 miles southeast of Louisville seems to be a magnet for negative Kentucky headlines.

Census surveys will remain suspended in a rural Kentucky county while law enforcement investigates the death of a part-time Census worker who was found dead in a cemetery, hanging from a tree with the word "fed" written on his body, an official said Sunday.

"Yes, we are concerned about what people are saying on the blogs," a Kentucky law enforcement official said Saturday night, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Violence against census employees is rare, the Census Bureau said Thursday, but it nevertheless trains its canvassers in how to deal with angry or hostile citizens.

Asphyxiation caused the death of a federal census worker whose body was found at a rural Clay County, Ky., cemetery with a rope around his neck, preliminary autopsy results show, but state police have not determined the death was a homicide.