PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Mountain Comprehensive Care Center and its chief executive officer have filed a lawsuit against three former employees, accusing them of making false allegations of health care billing fraud and other misconduct that the organization says have damaged its reputation and business relationships. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Floyd Circuit Court, names former MCCC Chief Financial Officer Rebeckah Hall, former Regional Billing Coordinator Rachel Williams and former Revenue Cycle Manager Kendra Allen as defendants. MCCC and CEO Promod “Mots” Bishnoi are seeking damages for defamation, tortious interference with contractual and prospective business relationships and abuse of process. The […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Central Kentucky sex offender who allegedly moved to Floyd County without informing authorities was arrested Tuesday following a brief chase. Johnny Ray McQueen, 63, who has recently been living in Auxier, was convicted in Madison County of first-degree sexual abuse of a 13-year-old back in 1982. After serving his sentence, he has been on the sex offender registry ever since, But while his last reported address was in Danville, but he was discovered to no longer be living there back in March. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office learned Tuesday that he was in downtown Prestonsburg, and […]

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WHITESBURG, Ky. — The murder case against former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines will be moved out of Letcher County after a judge ruled that extensive publicity and deeply divided public opinion make it impossible to seat a fair jury locally. The ruling came in an order entered Tuesday by Special Judge Christopher T. Cohron following a June 5 hearing on several pending motions in Stines’ case. Stines is charged in the Sept. 19, 2024, shooting death of Letcher County District Judge Kevin Mullins, who was killed inside his chambers at the Letcher County Courthouse. In granting the Commonwealth’s […]

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