LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Magoffin County man is heading back to prison, after he pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender. Phillip Harmon, 42, of Salyersville, pleaded guilty to the charge back in January. Court records in Scioto County, Ohio, indicate he pleaded guilty to rape in 2008 and served a 10-year sentence. In his plea agreement, he admits to moving from Ohio to Magoffin County in 2021, but never updating his sex offender registration. At his sentencing hearing on Thursday, he was ordered to serve an additional 18 months in prison. Once he is released, he […]

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Floyd County woman has received a minimum sentence for a federal conspiracy charge after she was found with nearly half a pound of meth. Stephanie Hall, 33, of Maytown, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of meth. That charge carries a potential sentence of between five and 40 years in prison. In Lexington federal court on Thursday, she was sentenced to five years. Hall was arrested May 3, 2024, following a traffic stop at McDowell, during which a state trooper found 215 grams of meth in a bag at […]

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As I was getting ready to call the 59th District softball championship at Pikeville High School, I was making my usual rounds and saying hello to everyone. It was a normal, misty evening at the softball field. I had not checked my phone. About 10 minutes before first pitch, I got a call asking, “Have you seen the news?” I did not want to hear what came next. How was it possible? Kyle Busch was NASCAR’s Superman for so many years. You loved to hate him, and throughout much of the late 2000s and 2010s, if he was on the […]

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