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Jobless rates are continuing to rise in all 120 Kentucky counties. The Office of Employment and Training released a report on Thursday showing that the nation's economic woes cost Kentucky more jobs in July.

JACKSON a ' A section of the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway will be widened to four lanes, say state highway officials, who will hold a public hearing to discuss the project next week.

Walter Hardin, the former deputy judge-executive and son of the current judge-executive of Magoffin County, could be sentenced to life in prison for downloading hundreds of images of child pornography onto his office computer last year and for soliciting sex from a detective pretending to be a 14-year-old girl.

A former deputy judge-executive of Magoffin County is scheduled for sentencing on child pornography charges.

COA 2009 Minutes: August 21, 2009 36 decisions 6 published 818 Lawson v. Com. CLAYTON, JUDGE: This is an appeal of the denial of a motion to alter, amend or vacate pursuant to Kentucky Rules of Criminal Procedure 11.42 brought by appellant, Leslie Lee Lawson.

A pair of former attorneys have been sentenced to decades in federal prison and ordered to pay $127 million in restitution for defrauding hundreds of clients in a diet-drug settlement.

SALYERSVILLE a ' The Magoffin County Courthouse was placed on lockdown on Wednesday after three jurors reported they had been intimidated by a family member of Chester Dean Allen, a man on trial for sexual abuse and sodomy charges.

Two people were charged with jury tampering and intimidating a witness during a sexual-abuse and sodomy trial in Magoffin County, Kentucky State Police said.