LEXINGTON, Ky. — University of Kentucky researchers have been awarded a five-year grant, projected to total $7.2 million, from the National Institutes of Health to test overdose prevention strategies for women transitioning from jail back into rural Kentucky communities. The new project is supported by the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of its Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network, a nationwide program that tests strategies to expand effective treatment, recovery and related services for individuals involved in the criminal legal system.  Women involved in the criminal legal system face elevated overdose risk during the vulnerable period of community […]

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TOMAHAWK, Ky. — A Martin County man and woman face drug trafficking charges, after police found a large amount of meth hidden in their truck. A Martin County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling Milo Road, when he saw a truck with a sign blocking the rear window veering over the center line in a curve. The deputy wrote in his report the occupants — Larry Joe Horn Jr., 58, and Brandi Moore, 35, both of Inez — appeared nervous and were shuffling around inside the truck after he pulled them over. Inside the truck, police found about 7 grams of meth […]

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PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS SARATOGA, Calif. – The Kentucky Softball team split its opening day at the Cardinal Classic I on Thursday, knocking off No. 13 Stanford 11-7 and dropping a 6-2 decision to Cal State Fullerton as the Wildcats picked up their first ranked win of the 2026 season in their first opportunity to play a top-25 team on the schedule.  Karissa Hamilton went 3-for-4, just a single shy of the cycle in the second game of the day as she drove in four of Kentucky’s 11 runs and scored three runs of her own in the contest. In […]

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Power is asking the Public Service Commission for a permission to spread out January’s fuel adjustment charge in order to make winter heating bills a little easier on customers. Beginning the last week of January, Eastern Kentucky experienced a prolonged cold spell that saw temperatures remain below freezing for two weeks. The last week of January saw nightly low temperatures range between 3 and 15 degrees. That cold weather resulted in increased demand, which pushed the cost of natural gas higher. The fuel adjustment charge that appears on customer bills reflects the fluctuating price of natural […]

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Former Prestonsburg High School basketball standout Sherri Allen is taking the reins for the school. DAVID, Ky. – At one point, The David School had gone a quarter of a century without a basketball team. Now they not only have a team, but a new acting-head coach, and a local basketball legend at that. Sherri Allen, a former basketball standout at Prestonsburg High School, accepted the position this past week. A native of Eastern Kentucky, Allen started at point guard for the Blackcats and went on to compete as an All-State, Regional, and District player. After high school she attended […]

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