AUXIER, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been arrested on a felony charge of torturing an animal after police say he shot a neighbor’s dog on the neighbor’s property. Deputies were called to the scene of the shooting on Ford’s Gap Road in Auxier. When they arrived, the neighbor told police that his son was outside with their dog, when Austin Sykes, 19, walked onto their property, said he was going to shoot their dog, then fired a 9 mm handgun twice, hitting the dog once behind its head. When officers went to talk to Sykes, the police report […]

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Utility crews have made significant progress restoring power around the region over the past 24 hours, with outages now totaling less than a third of what they were at their height. Fewer than 6,000 customers are now without power across the service areas of Kentucky Power, Big Sandy RECC and Licking Valley RECC. That’s down from more than 21,000 on Monday. That improvement extended to Johnson County, which was the hardest hit county in the region. At the height of the outage, Johnson County had more than 5,400 customers without power. At 11:30 Wednesday morning that number was down to […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Johnson County man who was arrested back in June after police raided his home and found more than a pound-and-a-half of meth is now expected to enter a guilty plea in federal court. Edward Carl Ramey, 46, of Paintsville, is currently charged with distributing meth, possession of more than 500 grams of meth with the intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to court records, the Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement Special Investigations unit received information that Ramey had a large quantity of meth in his possession, so they sent […]

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DORTON, Ky. — Two people were arrested after police found a trailer that had been stolen from the city of Jenkins. On Friday, Kentucky State Police received a request for assistance from Jenkins Police, after the trailer was discovered at Dorton. When police investigated, they found Chad Smallwood, 44, of Jenkins, and Courtney Childress, 31, of Pikeville, inside. Smallwood and Childress told police they had nothing to do with the theft and did not know the trailer was stolen. A search of the trailer turned up needles, metal pipes and plastic bags with drug residue. Police also found a gun, […]

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Power crews have made substantial progress restoring electricity throughout Eastern Kentucky, but some stubborn outages remain. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, about 13,500 customers remain without power in the areas served by Kentucky Power, Big Sandy RECC and Licking Valley RECC. That is down from a high of more than 21,000 a day earlier. Outages remain high in Johnson County, where 30 percent of homes and businesses, or 3,900 customers, are still without power. Other problem areas are in Martin County, where 27 percent of homes and businesses are without power, and Lawrence County, 22 percent. In Pike County, only […]

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