Harlan County News

St. Ursula Academy students, faculty and staff collected more than 30,000 pounds of food to help feed the needy this holiday season, both here in the Tri-state and for the student's mission trip to Lucy's Mission in Harlan County, Kentucky.

A Harlan County teacher receives a prestigious honor. Walter Dick, a longtime instructor at schools in Benham and Cumberland, is one of three educators selected for the Governor Louie B. Nunn Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame.

All Harlan County coal miners, active and retired, will be recognized by the Harlan County Chamber of Commerce as the recipients of its most prestigious award, Harlan Countian of the Year, at the Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet on Dec.

In an effort to fight poverty in Harlan County, Shelter Rock Ministries, of Boone, N.C., distributed food, clothing, toiletries and toys to approximately 200 people on Saturday at the Harlan Center.

Police have arrested a woman for allegedly setting forest fires in southeastern Kentucky that burned several acres and put homes in danger.

State Police have arrested a woman and charged her with setting a fire in the woods in Harlan County.

ANN ROBINSON/Harlan Daily Enterprise State Senator Brandon Smith spoke to the Harlan County Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday during the regular monthly meeting about issues concerning the troubling economy.

A two-vehicle crash on the U.S. 421 bypass Wednesday sent two people to the hospital with the injuries.

Interested in any/all information regarding Elijah Davis, Harlan County Kentucky, B. 1903, D. 1967.

NOLA SIZEMORE/Harlan Daily Enterprise David McGill, director of Harlan County Emergency Management, directed the evacuation of residents in Pathfork.

DEBBIE CALDWELL/Harlan Daily Enterprise A Cumberland man died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle and vehicle crash Sunday on U.S. 119.

NOLA SIZEMORE/ Daily Enterprise A rally to support coal was held at the Harlan Center on Thursday.

DEBBIE CALDWELL/ Daily Enterprise Eighteen people were arrested Friday morining in the Tri-Cities area during a roundup by the Harlan County Sheriffa s Office.

Dr. Rachel Lewis-Shelton, a Harlan County native, was recently featured in Southern Kentucky Health and Family Journal for her work with breast cancer patients.

Child poverty rates in Harlan County have now reached higher than 40 percent, according to information released by the Census Bureau recently.

As winter approaches, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program will help Harlan Countians with their energy bills.

The Harlan County Public Library will be adding two more public access computers, giving them a total of eight computers.

A domestic violence candlelight vigil, organized by Sheryl Caudel, victim advocate for Harlan County, was held recently at the courthouse in Harlan.

U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Community Services has approved a $600,000 grant for the Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation to create 40 jobs in Cumberland.

This June 2009 photo released by Southeast Community College shows an animatronic miner loading coal onto a transport car as another prepares to haul it out of Portal 31, a tourist mine in Lynch, Ky.