INEZ, Ky. — A Martin County man is facing felony charges, after police say he crashed his car after driving recklessly with two unrestrained young girls in his car. The crash happened Friday afternoon on Blacklog Road. Witnesses told police Justin Marcum, 37, ran a stop sign when pulling onto the road, swerved in and out of traffic cutting off other cars, then hit a rock wall, causing his vehicle to flip. Police say Marcum had his daughter and another girl in the car at the time, and neither of the girls were wearing seat belts. Marcum’s daughter was ultimately […]

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WHITESBURG, Ky. — A Letcher County man is facing charges of burglary and wanton endangerment, after police say the left a drug pipe in the pocket of a pair of children’s pants hanging on the rack at Walmart. Whitesburg Police were called to the store Saturday evening after staff spotted 37-year-old Dustyn Bowman, of Whitesburg, come inside. Bowman was ordered to stay out of the store after a shoplifting conviction in 2022. When he saw the officers entering the store, police say Bowman ran out the back door. He was found a short time later hiding in some bushes behind […]

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SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Magoffin County man who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly assaulting his mother has now been indicted in the case. Brian Clay Perkins, 40, of Salyersville, has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault, for the attack on his mother as well as a man who tried to help her, and one count of first-degree burglary. Back in March, witnesses told officers that Perkins kicked in the door of his mother’s house and began beating her. The woman was able to get away from him and tried to lock herself in a van, but […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Deputies who went to a Floyd County home in search of a suspect didn’t find him, but did end up arresting three other people. Deputies went to the home on Hillside Center Drive, in Prestonsburg, looking for a man around 11 Sunday morning in search of a suspect. They were greeted at the door by 60-year-old Greg Crace. Crace told the officers that only he and two women were in the home, but allowed them to come inside to look. As they walked through the home, they spotted Jessica Brown, 43, in a bedroom with a bag […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Alliance Resource Partners has announced the permanent closure of the MC Mining Complex in Pike County, affecting all of the facility’s 280 workers. Excel Mining issued Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notices to employees of the facility on Friday. The MC Mining Complex is owned by MC Mining and operated by Excel Mining, both of which are subsidiaries of Alliance. “The decision to issue WARN notices at the MC Mining Complex was not made lights,” Alliance Chairman, President and CEO Joseph W. Craft III said in a statement issued by the company. “Despite our continued […]

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