Pike County News

Kentucky State Police officials said on Monday that they received a call of a single-vehicle accident at 11:54 p.m., Sunday evening.

Foul play is suspected in the death of a man whose body was found Wednesday at a Pikeville city park, Pike County Coroner Russell Roberts said.

Jim Tackett, right, executive director of Forward in the Fifth, and Dr. Dessie Bowling, left, board chairman, present Rhonda Crigger of Pikeville with the 2013 Appalachian Leaders in Education Award in the educator early childhood category.

In commemoration of National Police Officers Memorial Week, the Kentucky State Police Post 2 Madisonville will honor fallen troopers at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. CST at the cemetery at Salem Missionary Baptist Church.

A private utility company in Pike County can keep secret how it spends public money under a change the General Assembly made to the Kentucky Open Records Act in 2012, a judge has ruled.

Area residents who have a flair for drama and an interest in history can pursue both of those passions with a part in the new outdoor drama based on the Hatfield McCoy Feud.

A Houston doctor has admitted that he helped feed a drug ring in Eastern Kentucky by writing prescriptions for unusually large amounts of pills to Pike County residents.

A federal indictment handed down April 25 and unsealed last week accuses a Pike County man of producing and distributing pornographic videos of children.

"We've sure had our share of tragedy here in Mingo County," Rockel said. "It's like a dark cloud is over us." Rockel is bewildered at the most recent tragedy.

Pike County is in the national spotlight thanks to an article published in The New York Times.

An escaped inmate was returned to custody Thursday, after two months on the lam, when a caller reported two men lurking around a Pike County school.

Keith Hall must meet himself coming and going on his multiple trips between Frankfort and his home in Pike County.

An accident that occurred in Hardy, Ky., Monday evening that resulted in the arrest of a Williamson City Patrolman on charges of DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.

State Rep. Keith Hall left few miles, meals or overnight lodgings unclaimed last year in racking up $22,804 in expenses over an eight-month period while lawmakers were not in session.

Tiersa Davis Web Producer: Tiersa Davis Reported: Apr. 25, 2013 1:53 PM EDT Updated: Apr.