Shelby Valley scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to edge Letcher Central, 4-3, in a road game played on Tuesday night. Josie Adkins singled twice and knocked in one run while scoring twice. Riley Fleming singled and batted in a run while Lindsay Reed and Dailey Damron both singled and scored. […]

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Shelby Valley scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to edge Letcher Central, 4-3, in a road game played on Tuesday night. Josie Adkins singled twice and knocked in one run while scoring twice. Riley Fleming singled and batted in a run while Lindsay Reed and Dailey Damron both singled and scored. Lillian Blackburn was the winning pitcher. Autumn Wampler belted a two-run homer to account for LCC runs. Abigail McDougal singled and scored. Katie Combs added a pair of hits. Alyssa Nicely took the loss. At  Whitesburg SCORE BY INNINGS: R-H-E SV (2-2)….000 001 3 – 4-5-0 […]

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Pikeville took an early lead against Hazard and the Panthers scored a 13-3 win in a game played at Davis ark on Tuesday night. Dylan Thompson tripled and doubled while driving in four runs and scoring. Sam Wright singled, scored, and knock in a pair of runs. Carson Salyer singled and scored twice. Bash Ryan […]

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CINCINNATI, Ohio — A former Letcher County teacher who was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in a child porn case has lost an appeal of the case. Charles Evans Hall Jr., 50, of Jackhorn, was convicted in 2021 on charges of producing child porn and cyberstalking. A jury determined that Hall groomed one of his students to send him pornographic Snapchat images while he was a middle school teacher. He was also found to have tried to intimidate the girl into destroying evidence. He was ultimately sentenced to 370 months in prison and ordered to pay the […]

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A new study ranks the 50 states by how prepared they are to handle a zombie apocalypse, and Kentucky comes in right in the middle. The Bluegrass State ranks 25th in terms of preparedness. By comparison, West Virginia comes in at 13th. Kentucky ranks better than other surrounding states, however, with all of them ranking in the bottom 18. Nationally, Wyoming is rated as the most prepared, while California is the least. The study was released by insurance comparison website Insuranks. The study also found that 1 in 10 Americans actually believe a zombie outbreak will eventually happen, with 1 […]

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