Jackson County News

A man has asked a federal judge to order nine copies of the Ten Commandments taken down from an eastern Kentucky courthouse.

A Jackson County resident and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky have sued the county over copies of the Ten Commandments in the courthouse.

Another meth lab is shut down in Jackson County. Sheriff Tim Fee tells Mountain News the latest bust happened tonight at a home off Kentucky 2004 in Sand Gap.

Employment took a turn for the worse across the state in May, according to estimates by the Kentucky Department of Workforce and Training.

One person was sent to the hospital, another behind bars after a shooting in Jackson County, reportedly over a VCR.

Work has begun on a traffic light at KY 192 and the Hal Rogers Parkway, a little more than a month after transportation officials approved its installation.

Strong winds, and possibly a tornado, moved through Madison County just after 5 p.m., blowing vehicles off the road and damaging houses, according to the National Weather Service in Louisville.

Though by a very narrow margin, March numbers show Laurel County's unemployment rate went down from the month before - the first time that has happened since August 2008.

Two Tyner men were arrested Sunday after they allegedly fired multiple shots into a Jackson County woman's home, hitting the woman three times.

Praising the Jackson County communityA1s vision and support, Fifth District Congressman Harold A3HalA2 Rogers cut the ribbon to officially open The LordA1s Gym in McKee during a gala celebration on April 17.

A former Russellville man is sentenced in Logan Circuit Court for using the internet to induce a minor into sexual activity, and of possessing child pornography.

Several emergency crews are searching for a missing child in Jackson County. The four year old girl lives off Kentucky 421 on Morril Kirby Knob Road.

A missing eastern Kentucky toddler was found in a creek, clinging to a tree branch.

A four-year-old girl who wandered into a rugged, wooded area of Jackson County Thursday night was found by searchers early Friday morning, authorities said.

Eastern Kentucky University student Cindy Madden has been selected as the student winner in the sixth annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Collegiate Business Concept Challenge, a component of the Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards program honoring business and entrepreneurship in southern and eastern Kentucky.

A 27-year-old Jackson County man was charged Sunday with second-degree robbery and second-degree assault after another man accused him of attacking him and stealing $1,400 in cash and his vehicle, Kentucky State Police said.

A 63-year-old man is recovering after being assaulted and robbed in Jackson County.

A state forestry official says wild fires burning in several eastern Kentucky counties have been extinguished thanks to firefighters and rain storms.

Nearly one out of every 10 people in the 13-county Louisville metro area who wanted a job in January couldn't get one.

A Sand Gap man charged with murder entered a not guilty plea Thursday in Madison Circuit Court.