Sassafras News

14. Twelve are entered in the 103rd renewel of the Autumn, a 1 1/16-mile event to be contested on the Toronto oval's Polytrack as the eighth race on the program.

The Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands is funding a nearly $2.2 million water line project to help people in Knott and Perry counties whose wells have been contaminated by coal mining activity.

Police in eastern Kentucky say an 11-year-old boy will be referred to juvenile authorities after he took a church van for a drive, smashing six vehicles and prompting police to shoot out the van tires to stop him.

On Friday, May 15, 2009, at approximately 1:37 AM, Kentucky State Police Post 13, in Hazard, received a call of a single vehicle motorcycle collision on Yellow Creek Road in the Sassafras community of Knott County.

A Hindman man died in a motorcycle crash early Friday. Kentucky State Police say Christopher O. Pratt, 46, was riding his motorcycle about 1:35 a.m. on Yellow Creek Road in the Sassafras community of Knott County when he lost control and struck a support beam near a railroad track.

A body is discovered early Friday morning near a mine site in the Vicco community of Perry County.