Jackson County News Archives

RICHMOND, Ky. - State police are investigating after the body of a white female was found in a remote area of eastern Kentucky.

An autopsy is scheduled Thursday for an unidentified body found in Lee County near the Jackson County line.

A husband and wife are arrested after the latest drug bust in Jackson County. It happened at a home in Tyner off Highway 1709.

Christian leaders in Jackson County performed a valuable public service by persuading county officials to take down the nine copies of the Ten Commandments posted in the courthouse in McKee.

FRANKFORT. Ky. -- A state agency is again reporting increases in jobless rates across Kentucky.

Three local health departments will receive grants from the Kentucky Department for Public Health to help make their communities more conducive to healthy lifestyles.

Kentucky State Police found a man early Friday morning that they say was involved in a gas station robbery last week that left his accomplice dead.

At the request of one of its members from Jackson County, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in London against Jackson County and Jackson County Judge-Executive William O. Smith over nine separate displays of the Ten Commandments in the Jackson County Courthouse.

About two hours into the Red, White & Boom festivities Saturday at College Park, rain started falling and visitors scrambled under the shelters or took out their umbrellas to wait it out.

A federal lawsuit alleges that Jackson County officials are violating the Constitution by posting stand-alone displays of the Ten Commandments at both entrances to the county courthouse, outside various offices and even next to a women's restroom.

Another meth bust Thursday afternoon in Jackson County. The sheriff says all the components needed to make a meth lab were found at the home of 30-year old Jason Ray Marcum in McKee.

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.