Perry County News

Kentuckians, especially the people of Eastern Kentucky, identify themselves by county.

Changes at a Perry County intersection where one person has died and dozens injured in recent years.

As attacks on mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia have grown increasingly sharp, the coal industry and its supporters have defended the practice by saying that reclaimed mine areas provide flat land for development in a place where level sites are scarce.

Governor Beshear comes to Hazard to announce an initiative to promote dental care in Eastern Kentucky.

" It's been several years since Renee and Jimmy McCoy first started the Hope in the Mountains drug treatment center, located at Watergap.

Shots rang out in what neighbors call a normally quiet neighborhood after police say a Perry County man tried to kill a woman.

The Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands is funding a nearly $2.2 million water line project to help people in Knott and Perry counties whose wells have been contaminated by coal mining activity.

Three Perry County transmitters are missing ground copper wiring after it was stolen early this morning.

Police are still looking for two inmates who escaped from a work release program in Perry County.

A case of H1N1 in a Perry County school is confirmed, but it will not be shutting the school down.

Kentucky State Police Detectives from Post 13 in Hazard have arrested a Perry County man charging him with the murder of his brother.

Kentucky state police detectives on Monday arrested a Perry County man and charged him with the shooting death of his brother.

Officers say a concerned neighbor called them to a home yesterday on eastern pine.

As Larry Clay tends cattle at D & D Ranch, massive dump trucks growl nearby, hauling off rock stripped away to uncover coal.

An Eastern Kentucky elementary school will be closed on Monday due to illness. R.W. Combs Elementary School in Perry County will re-open on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, officers from Kentucky State Police Post 13 Hazard, Operation U.N.I.T.E, Perry County Sheriff Department and Hazard Police Department conducted a controlled buy-bust in the Combs area of Perry County .

On Saturday, August 22, 2009 at approximately 3:49 PM, KY State Police, Post 13, in Hazard received a call of an accident on KY Hwy 28 in the Chavies community of Perry County involving a pedestrian.

On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, KY State Police, Post 13, in Hazard was notified of an accident on KY Hwy 15 in the Glomawr community of Perry County.

A 12-year-old boy died after being hit by a vehicle in Perry County on Saturday.

Two women are dead after an accident involving a state trooper in Perry County. It happened Tuesday afternoon near Glomawr.