DRENNAN, W.Va. — The search continues for a coal miner who remains unaccounted for following a flood a. Nicholas County mine. It happened at the Rolling Thunder Mine, near the Nicholas and Clay county line. Officials say there was a flood inside the mine Saturday afternoon, and all miners except one were located safe afterward. A mine rescue team has been dispatched to the site. The identity of the missing miner has not been released.

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By Collan McCoy: Sports Writer For Kentucky fans of a certain age, Florida was the archenemy, the final boss, the immovableobject. For Mark Stoops, Florida wins are as common as poor games coming out of a byeweek. After Saturday, Mark Stoops has now beaten Florida five times in his career. For comparison,the only SEC opponents that Stoops has more wins against are Missouri (seven wins), SouthCarolina (seven wins), and their next SEC opponent, Vanderbilt (eight wins). The most impressive part of the win may be the manner in which the cats pulled it off. Afterlosing to the Gators 48-20 in the Swamp […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — The judge presiding over the Amber Spradlin murder trial has granted a request by prosecutors to delay the trial. Special Judge Eddy Coleman issued an order Friday evening canceling the Dec. 1 trial date and ordering attorneys to appear that day for a pretrial conference instead. In his order, Coleman noted that the untested DNA evidence was too important to ignore. He cited precedent for his decision in the case in Manning vs. Commonwealth of Kentucky, in which the Kentucky Supreme Court granted a fourth delay in a complicity to murder and robbery case, even though that […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man arrested last week on 20 counts of possessing child pornography has now seen his case bumped up to federal court. Charles Michael Hopkins, 34, of Virgie, was arrested last week after Kentucky State Police received a tip that he had been uploading and downloading child porn images online. That case has now been moved to federal court. Documents in the federal case provide a more complete picture of the allegations. According to an affidavit by the FBI agent investigating the case, KSP received the first report about Hopkins from the National Center for […]

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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear invites the public to pay their respects to former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins, who will lie in state in the Old State Capitol on Sunday, Nov. 9, beginning at noon. Collins’ family will host a public visitation in the Old State Capitol from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There will be a memorial service at 4:30 p.m., which will air live on Kentucky Educational Television and at ket.org/live. Collins was the 56th Governor of the commonwealth and its only woman governor to date, serving from 1983 to 1987. She also served as lieutenant governor from […]

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