PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man has reached an agreement to plead guilty in a federal child porn case. Charles Michael Hopkins, 35, of Virgie, is currently charged with one count of possession of child porn. He was arrested in October, after Kentucky State Police received 13 reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that child porn had been uploaded and downloaded by a phone number associated with him. Under questioning by police, Hopkins said he was sent images by a person he met online, but he deleted them after discovering they were child porn. He […]

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PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS LEXINGTON, Ky.  – Four Kentucky players have earned preseason All-Southeastern Conference honors from Phil Steele, including a pair of offensive players on the second team and both an offensive and defensive star on the third team.  Junior tight end Willie Rodriguez and senior center Coleton Price each were named to the second team. Mainstay senior safety Ty Bryant and senior offensive lineman Lance Heard garnered third-team honors as new head coach Will Stein enters his first season with the Wildcats. Both Price and Heard are transfers.  Price, a 6-foot-3, 318-pounder from Bowie, Texas, transferred to Kentucky […]

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McDOWELL, Ky. — The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a woman who hasn’t been seen by her family in over a month. Brandy Moore, 41, of McDowell, was reported to the sheriff’s office as missing on June 9, but her family said she had not been seen in over 30 days. The sheriff’s office said it was not immediately apparent to the family that Moore was missing, because she routinely stayed with different relatives, and it took some time before they realized that none of them had seen her recently. Moore has the […]

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HAZARD, Ky. — Appalachian Regional Healthcare has issued a public response after one of its hospitals received a letter warning it that it faced fines for not complying with federal price transparency requirements. Hazard ARH was one of eight Kentucky hospitals that received a notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the Trump administration warned more than 500 hospitals nationwide about transparency requirements. The other Kentucky hospitals listed are: The hospitals were warned that they faced fines of up to $2 million a year if they did not post the cost of medical procedures on their websites. […]

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Coalfields & Cobblestones seeks to partner with coal communities.

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