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Bob Dixon said Thursday's devastating blaze at a Hager Hill home Thursday was the "biggest residential fire" in Johnson County since he's been Paintsville's fire chief.

A piece of history in eastern Kentucky goes up in flames. The Enchanted Mountain Mansion near Paintsville caught fire late Thursday afternoon.

A Johnson County woman arrested in Pulaski County last year filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this month, claiming that her arrest was made with excessive force and that deputies and jail employees ...

My father-in-law, Dennis Blair, passed away Saturday evening at his home of 55 years on Buckingham Avenue in West Van Lear.. I only had the pleasure of knowing Dennis since 1998, when I began dating his eldest ...

“It was sad when the great ship went down . ...”

Demand an end to occupation of Iraq Ironically, the fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq falls within Christianity's most sacred week - right between Palm Sunday and Easter. via Independent

A federal jury cracked down on a cocaine trafficking ring that sold illegal drugs throughout eastern Kentucky for several years. via Independent

LEXINGTON , Ky. Amory Cox, daughter of Regina and Ben Cox of Campbellsville, Ky., and Grant Mills, son of Emily and Randy Mills of Frankfort, Ky., were crowned the University of Kentucky Homecoming queen and ... via UK News