Strunk News

Trosper reports that a local constable arrested Mickey S. Stephens, 36, of Pine Knot late Tuesday night in connection to the armed robbery.

The McCreary County Board of Education's first meeting of the year was an eventful one.

There was no reprieve for the McCreary County Detention Center Thursday evening as fiscal court members met in special session to discuss the Kentucky Department of Corrections' order two weeks ago to close the local jail by January 15.

In 1962, astronaut Wally Schirra became the fifth American to fly in space as he blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a 9-hour flight.