by ROD [email protected] CLINTWOOD, Va. — The Dickenson County Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 22 to support a local animal adoption program and approved a resolution naming a bridge for a county native killed while serving in Vietnam. The adoption proposal came from Sabrina Stanley’s LEADSWVA capstone project. Under the proposal, Dickenson County Animal Control would manage a formal adoption program intended to place more animals in homes and ease shelter crowding. The board also approved a resolution naming the Route 621 bridge at Lower George’s Fork the Johnny Lee Hawkins Memorial Bridge. Hawkins was a Dickenson County native and […]

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WARFIELD, Ky. — A Martin County woman was arrested for cruelty to animals, after a deputy found two dogs locked in cages without food or water. A Martin County sheriff’s deputy was driving through Dempsey Housing at Warfield Tuesday night, when a resident flagged him down to report having heard two aggressive-sounding dogs over the riverbank. That person said they had heard the dogs for two days, but hadn’t checked on them because they sounded mean. The deputy investigated and found the two dogs locked in side-by-side cages, without food or water and covered in animal waste.Another resident of the […]

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LOUISA, Ky. — Two financial companies involved in separate lawsuits against Addiction Recovery Care have reached a settlement that could resolve their competing claims to nearly $4.7 million in federal tax-refund proceeds currently being held in a court-ordered account. Attorneys for Angelica Capital Trust and Clear Cove Opportunities Fund I notified a federal judge in New York on Sept. 18 that they had reached an agreement involving their two lawsuits against ARC and asked the court to take several steps that would bring both cases to an end. The proposed resolution centers on $4.7 million that has been frozen in […]

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BLOOMINGTON, Ky. — At 11 a.m. Monday, a Magoffin County man accompanied his ex-wife to court in order for her to drop an emergency protective order against him and have his confiscated weapons returned. By 2:30 that afternoon, Martin County sheriff’s deputies were taking him to jail for attacking his ex-wife and firing a gun. Garland Dwayne Elsea, 57, of Bloomington, now faces charges of attempted murder, strangulation and wanton endangerment. The police report says after going to court, Elsea and his ex-wife went back to his home, where they began arguing. Police say Elsea grabbed the woman by her […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Pikeville man has been arrested after Kentucky State Police say a traffic stop in Prestonsburg led to the seizure of approximately 159 grams of suspected methamphetamine. According to KSP Post 9, troopers stopped a 2007 Nissan Titan on U.S. 23 in the Prestonsburg area after the Post 9 Street Crimes Unit developed information that the vehicle was allegedly being used to transport illegal drugs into Pike County. A KSP citation says the stop occurred at 2:27 a.m. Tuesday. During the investigation, officers searched the vehicle and allegedly found several individually packaged bags of suspected methamphetamine hidden […]

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