WASHINGTON, D.C. – Holocaust survivor and longtime leader of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, John Rosenberg, is featured on a new episode of the Legal Services Corporation’s (LSC) podcast, “Talk Justice.” LSC President Ron Flagg speaks with Rosenberg about his memories of Nazi Germany, becoming a lawyer in the United States, working for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and earning the trust of his Eastern Kentucky community.   Rosenberg said he remembers being 7 years old in 1938, watching Nazis destroy his synagogue in the middle of the night — the night now known as Kristallnacht. The synagogue was adjacent to his […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman eight months ago. Austin Reahard, 31, of Prestonsburg, is accused of grabbing the woman by the shoulders as she walked out of a Prestonsburg restaurant August 29 and shoving her to the ground. The woman hit the ground with such force that the arrest warrant says she suffered a fractured vertebra. Reahard is now charged with second-degree assault, a felony punishable by 5-to-10 years in prison. He was released from jail on an unsecured $25,000 bond.

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BY ZACH AKERS – SPORTS WRITER The bass of stock cars thundering around Bristol Motor Speedway hits you before you even find your seat. It is a feeling every NASCAR fan knows, the kind that rattles your chest and reminds you why you fell in love with the sport in the first place. Race weekend at the Suburban Propane 300 delivered exactly that. But from inside the Suburban Propane suite, there was another story unfolding, one that stretched far beyond the high banks of Bristol and into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia, the area that most people […]

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INEZ, Ky. — A father and son were arrested in Martin County over the weekend, after deputies found a sizable portion of meth during a traffic stop. Gary Lee Gamble Sr., 65, of Inez, and Gary Lee Gamble Jr., 47, of Paintsville, were stopped around 8 p.m. Sunday. During the stop, officers discovered about 16 grams of meth, along with scales and plastic bags. Gary Lee Gamble Sr. was arrested and charged with meth trafficking, meth possession and possession of a controlled substance. His son was charged with meth possession. Both were lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, […]

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6-year-old David Brown is in the top 10 of national competition.

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