A former Clay County magistrate was injured last week after being attacked at a Laurel Creek sawmill. Authorities said Hugh “Bulldog” Lunsford was at the sawmill when Randall Rice, …
MANCHESTER, Ky. — What began as a tense manhunt in the steep hollows of Clay County has now led to a federal indictment. Clinton Everett Hahn, 51 — known to some by the alias Jeff …
MANCHESTER, Ky. — A Manchester man is facing a long list of charges after Kentucky State Police say he was stopped on KY 80 while driving impaired with a young child in the back seat. …
MANCHESTER, Ky. — “I thought he was going to kill me.” Those were the words of Vernon Jarvis after a police chase on Crawfish Saturday, where the driver of the vehicle ran from …
A Laurel County man is behind bars on a federal indictment accusing him of possession of child pornography. Randall Ray Sharp, no age listed, is accused of the crimes in March 2025, …
An Owsley County man is behind bars on a federal indictment accusing him of receiving and shipping child pornography. Berlin Hollan, no age listed, is accused of the crimes from May and June …
Kentucky State Police confirm the body of Marty Dill , the prime suspect in the 1995 disappearance of Heather Teague, was exhumed Monday morning to collect DNA evidence in the nearly …
It’s not every day that Clay County Dispatch fields a call that sounds like the opening act of a circus, but that’s what happened Tuesday evening on Gregory Branch Road. According to …
MANCHESTER, Ky. — The City of Manchester has received a clean bill of financial health following the completion of its most recent independent audit, city officials announced this week. …
Dear Editor, On behalf of Volunteers of America Mid-States, my colleagues and I are deeply honored to receive the 2025 Appalachian Recovery Award at the SOAR Summit. This recognition belongs not …
Sheriff’s Deputy Dewey Grubb is just like a bloodhound dog. When he gets on your trail-it’s over. Last week, employees at Delta Natural Gas, located at old U.S. 421, were …
If child care were more available and affordable in the state, around 16,000-28,000 people could join or rejoin the workforce and that could add around $600 million, conservatively, to the economy, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce estimates. The estimate comes from a report released Thursday, which analyzed the economic impact of more affordable child care […]
LOUISVILLE — Republican megadonors Joe and Kelly Craft again joined Central Bank in bidding $10 million on a country ham for charity. Kelly Craft, a former United Nations ambassador and 2023 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and her husband, coal executive Joe Craft, have had the winning bid at the annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast […]
MASON COUNTY — Tim Grosser drove his truck across a pasture toward cattle he raises with his son Andy on the farm he’s owned for more than 30 years. “It’s peaceful,” Grosser said, mentioning the smell of fresh mown hay. “We just cut it and let it cure and rake it, roll it up, and […]
Central Appalachia — and Eastern Kentucky in particular — is running out of time to turn a century of decline into a future worth staying for. Population loss is now the coalfields’ defining trend, and in some counties it’s accelerating toward collapse. Data from the Kentucky State Data Center’s “Kentucky: By the Numbers” series shows […]
LEESVILLE, La. — A Louisiana man will spend the next four decades behind bars and undergo both physical and chemical castration after pleading guilty to the attempted rape of a child under 13. …
In recognition of Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st, Dismas Charities Manchester has placed 1,410 purple pinwheels outside its facility—each one symbolizing a life lost to drug overdose in …
MANCHESTER, Ky. — Two fugitives from Missouri were taken into custody in Clay County after U.S. Marshals and the Clay County Sheriff’s Department staged a raid in the rugged Otter …
A longtime magistrate and feature writer for the Enterprise is mourning the loss of their son due to a tragic vehicle accident Saturday. Cashton Warren, 19, son of Fifth District Magistrate Bill …
Kentucky advocates for people with Alzheimer’s are excited by new research showing that lifestyle interventions like exercising and learning can slow cognitive decline. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in July, The U.S. POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial showed that being social and keeping the brain active can improve brain health over […]