God’s Pantry in Prestonsburg received a generous check from AARP on Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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Prestonsburg is holding a special election this year for Prestonsburg Passage’s mayor. The only requirement is that the candidates are pets.

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Floyd County man accused of threatening a postal employee has been indicted in that case, as well as a new one. Jonathan Joseph Howell, 43, of Auxier, was originally arrested back in August for allegedly threatening to shoot up the post office and kill a postal worker and his family. He was later charged in another case with threatening the same postal worker in an attempt to get him to change his testimony. A grand jury indicted him in those two cases, charging him with second-degree terroristic threatening, third-degree terroristic threatening, intimidating a participant in the […]

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Mingo County sex offender has been indicted by a federal grand jury for not keeping his registration current. Rodney Luke Thomas, 32, of Matewan, was indicted Tuesday on a single count of failure to register and update his registration as a sex offender. Thomas was convicted in 2014 of third-degree sexual assault of a minor in Mingo County. The National Sex Offender Registry lists him as an inmate in the Western Virginia Regional Jail in Salem. A warrant has been issued to have him transferred to Charleston to answer the charge.

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky sex offender has been indicted in Pike County for not maintaining his registration requirements. Thomas Craig, 47, was indicted on one count of failing to register relative to sexual offense and one count of persistent felony offender. Craig was convicted possessing and distributing child porn back in Muhlenberg County back in 2018. Court records indicate he was a patient at Good Shepherd Health and Rehabilitation in Phelps last December, when police were called to the facility because he was allegedly harassing staff and patients.When police looked into the matter, they discovered he was wanted for […]

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