Magoffin County News

It appears no Kentucky county escaped rising unemployment rates within the past year.

Unemployment rates rose in all 120 Kentucky counties between May 2008 and May 2009, a new report finds.

No Kentucky county has been spared from the rise in unemployment. A new report from the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training rates shows the jobless rate increased in all 120 counties from May 2008 to May 2009.

Four Disaster Recovery Centers in Kentucky are scheduled to transition or close on Saturday, June 27.

Victims from the Mother's Day weekend flooding who still need one on one help from FEMA may want to do that this week.

Four disaster recovery centers in Kentucky will close or transition to other functions next weekend.

An emergency management official from Scott County has been re-arrested and now faces federal child pornography charges.

A suspended Scott County emergency management official is now facing federal child pornography charges.

Kentucky State Police say they've found significant evidence in a 20-year-old murder after authorities drained a pond where a body was found.

Magoffin County residents with losses from the May storms and flooding now have a one-stop location to visit for information about available commonwealth and federal disaster aid programs and services.

Kentucky State Police investigators from Post 9, Pikeville are continuing their investigation into the twenty-year-old murder of Gregory G. Back.

Starting June 9, people in Magoffin County, Ky., are eligible for disaster assistance from the commonwealth and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with recovery from severe storms, flooding and mudslides that struck May 3 through May 20.

Voters in Paintsville have a long history of rejecting plans for the sale of alcohol in the Johnson County seat, although pro-forces are hoping a quieter approach may swing Tuesday's election in their favor.

Unemployment rose in each of Kentucky's 120 counties during April, according to a report issued by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.

Flood victims in four Eastern Kentucky counties are receiving individual disaster assistance from FEMA, but that's not the case for people in Magoffin County, at least for now.

A mining expert hired by an attorney said he thinks a sediment impoundment was breached and might have exacerbated damage from flooding in a May 8 storm that destroyed hundreds of homes in Breathitt County.

Officials in Magoffin County said Thursday that the remains found in a car submerged in a pond Tuesday are those of a Salyersville man who had been missing since 1989.

Kentucky State Police at Pikeville are continuing their investigation into the discovery of human remains in northern Magoffin County earlier this week.

Boil Water Advisory>>> West Virginia American Water issued a boil water advisory for customers in the South Hills area of Charleston.

Members of UNITE Service Corps, a collaborative effort between Operation UNITE and AmeriCorps, gathered Thursday to celebrate the efforts of the last year among participants across seven counties.