PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County woman was arrested Thursday over allegations she bought alcohol for a minor and tried to have sex with him. Pikeville Police received a call from a woman who reported that she had found messages on her 16-year-old son’s phone from Kristi Coleman, 38, of Pikeville. The messages included statements that she wished he were 18 and offering to buy the teen alcohol if he would come stay with her. Coleman was arrested and, when interviewed, reportedly admitted to offering him alcohol and buying him an alcoholic beverage at a gas station June 30. She […]

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SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A child’s trip to McDonald’s for breakfast was allegedly the spark that led to a Magoffin County woman being charged with attempted murder. Kentucky State Police was called Sunday morning to a home on Combs Branch Road over reports of an assault and shooting. During their investigation, troopers were told that Macey Jo May, 25, of Salyersville, had become angry at a woman for taking a 5-year-old to get breakfast at McDonald’s and began hitting her on the side of the head. When another woman tried to separate the two, May allegedly turned on the other woman […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — One man was killed Wednesday in a single-vehicle crash along U.S. 23 in Pikeville. According to Kentucky State Police, the crash happened just before 4 p.m. The preliminary investigation indicates that Paul Bisbee was traveling south in a 1988 Dodge Ram SUV when his vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes and struck the concrete bridge wall. Bisbee was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Pike County Coroner’s Office. The collision remains under investigation by Trooper Braxton Whitmore. Trooper Whitmore was assisted at the scene by personnel from Post 9 and local first responder agencies.

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