Rockcastle County News

The Rock Solid Youth Center has firmed a location and seems to be a stone's throw away from rolling out the red carpet to welcome in the youth of Rowan County.

A Golden Alert has ended for a missing Rockcastle County man. We're told Jason Andrew Dunn, 27, was found safe in Pulaski County.

The Adair County Marching Band is heading to the Kentucky Music Educators Association State semi-finals and finals competition for their 24th appearance in the KMEA State Championship competition.

It's a bizarre case still haunting investigators 14 years later. A teenager dies on a Kentucky interstate after police say someone stole a tombstone, threw it off an overpass, and into the car a teen was riding in.

Two out-of-state men are reportedly in good condition at UK Hospital after a bad wreck on I-75 in Rockcastle County Sunday morning.

Police expect to make more arrests today in a year long investigation into drug activity in Eastern Kentucky.

Police officers fanned out across Eastern Kentucky early Wednesday to arrest alleged drug dealers in the culmination of a major investigation of interstate pill smuggling.

Police have begun a round up of alleged drug dealers in eastern Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the drug sweep is the result of an investigation into interstate pill smuggling.

On Sunday, October 25, 2009, at 8:55 AM the Kentucky State Police, Post 11, in London was notified of a single vehicle traffic crash with injury, at the 54 mile marker, on Interstate 75 in Rockcastle County.

Current Conditions available on our Weather Page . Font Size: A crash on the interstate send a truck and a boat, over the side of the highway.

Durell "Butch" Hamm, an English and communications teacher at Larry A. Ryle High School in Boone County, has been named Kentucky's Teacher of the Year.

Kentucky State Police have launched a murder investigation in the death of a Rockcastle County man whose body was found last week.

Forty five year old Robert Neal Singleton was found shot to death in his Livingston home last week.

On Thursday, October 08, 2009, at approximately 1:40 PM, the Kentucky State Police, Post 11 London received a report, from the Rockcastle County 911 Center, of a person found deceased at a residence located on KY 490 3.5 miles south of Mount Vernon.

Middle school teachers from Corbin Independent Schools and Rockcastle County and a Berea Independent Schools high school teacher are among nine semifinalists for Kentucky Teacher of the Year awards.

An investigation is underway after a man is found dead in Rockcastle County. State police say 45 year old Robert Neal Singleton's body was found just before two Thursday afternoon, inside a home on Highway 490 near Mount Vernon.

A Whitley County High School student was located Tuesday, the same day a Mt. Vernon man is being accused of allegedly kidnapping her from the school's campus.

A Kentucky school is forced to close it's doors because of the flu. Today, school administrators were working overtime to disinfect a Rockcastle County elementary school, after calling off classes because of low attendance.

A Rockcastle County elementary school will be closed for the rest of the week because a number of students have flu-like symptoms.

Rockcastle County High School students, Chris Rogers was among twenty-one students throughout the state selected by Kentucky State Police to participate in the 'Drive to Stay Alive' program.