Tateville News

TATEVILLE, Ky. -- A man slipped into a deep pit and was killed Wednesday while exploring a treacherous southeastern Kentucky cave, officials said.

TATEVILLE, Ky. A man slipped into a deep pit and was killed Wednesday while exploring a treacherous southeastern Kentucky cave, officials said.

Jerry Wendell Toney, 68, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, at his home in Tateville, Ky.

Gaston Ray Harvey, the son of Christine Wells, was born December 28, 1987 in Ludington, Mich., and he departed this life on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 in Tateville, Ky having attained the age of 21 years.

In 1965, at the height of the Vietnam War, every serviceman wanted a short timer stick.

The checkered flag will fly again at Lake Cumberland Speedway this Saturday as racing resumes following the recent death of the track's owner, Harold Hardgrove.

A Somerset man is recuperating at the University of Kentucky Medical Center from injuries he sustained when he was attacked with a sledgehammer.

Someone has poisoned numerous dogs in the Tateville area over the pas year with anti-freeze. Owners of the murdered dogs say bowls of the toxic chemical were placed in their yards for their pets to ingest and then be killed.

A local non-profit organization is hoping to jump-start an investigation into a rash of suspected dog poisonings in a southern Pulaski County community by offering a reward for any information that may lead to an arrest.

The tornado sirens wailed for a good 45 minutes in Somerset amid reports of funnel clouds and downed trees, but those in southern and southeast Pulaski County seem to have gotten the worst of the line of storms that blew through the area yesterday.