Mount Vernon News

The five-member Harrison family is more than 2,000 miles into a 7,000-mile epic bike tour from Kentucky to Alaska by way of Florida and Texas.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer An unlit headlight sent a London man and a Mount Vernon man to custody in the Rockcastle County Detention Center in the early hours of Monday.

Je'Kauri McKeithen, 7, with 8-year-olds Mercedes Smith, center, and Keyandra Mason, prepares Saturday to serve a hot bowl of butter bean soup at First Baptist Church, Francis Street, during the second annual free "Soup Day," a mission outreach project funded by church members and hosted by its Children's Fellowship.

Police officers fanned out across Eastern Kentucky early Wednesday to arrest alleged drug dealers in the culmination of a major investigation of interstate pill smuggling.

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A maintenance man who allegedly tried to entice a 12-year-old boy into engaging in sex acts with him has been indicted.

Many people fantasize about taking a few years off to hit the road and experience " the real" America.

September receipts for the state of Kentucky made a gloomy budget picture even gloomier as they fell nearly 10 percent over the same month last year.

Kentucky State Police have launched a murder investigation in the death of a Rockcastle County man whose body was found last week.

On Thursday, October 08, 2009, at approximately 1:40 PM, the Kentucky State Police, Post 11 London received a report, from the Rockcastle County 911 Center, of a person found deceased at a residence located on KY 490 3.5 miles south of Mount Vernon.

After lots of pedaling and more than 1,600 miles later the Harrison's have made it to St.

An investigation is underway after a man is found dead in Rockcastle County. State police say 45 year old Robert Neal Singleton's body was found just before two Thursday afternoon, inside a home on Highway 490 near Mount Vernon.

Floyd Coleman recently sent me information on local men who served in the 7th Cavalry under Gen.

A Whitley County High School student was located Tuesday, the same day a Mt. Vernon man is being accused of allegedly kidnapping her from the school's campus.

Rockcastle County High School students, Chris Rogers was among twenty-one students throughout the state selected by Kentucky State Police to participate in the 'Drive to Stay Alive' program.

Here's something you don't see every day: A bicycle built for five. This unusual mode of transportation was turning heads of motorists along A1A this morning in Brevard County.

The local Roman Catholic Diocese recently made a statement addressing the April suspension of former St.

On Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 4:40 PM the Kentucky State Police was notified by the Rockcastle 911 Center of a two vehicle traffic crash on US 25 south of Mount Vernon, KY.

An 81-year-old woman died and two people were injured in a head-on crash in Mount Vernon on Wednesday afternoon.

A woman that was well known in Rockcastle County is dead after a crash. It happened around five Wednesday afternoon on U.S. 25 in Mount Vernon.