by ROD [email protected] CLINTWOOD, Va. — The Dickenson County Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 22 to support a local animal adoption program and approved a resolution naming a bridge for a county native killed while serving in Vietnam. The adoption proposal came from Sabrina Stanley’s LEADSWVA capstone project. Under the proposal, Dickenson County Animal Control would manage a formal adoption program intended to place more animals in homes and ease shelter crowding. The board also approved a resolution naming the Route 621 bridge at Lower George’s Fork the Johnny Lee Hawkins Memorial Bridge. Hawkins was a Dickenson County native and […]

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WARFIELD, Ky. — A Martin County woman was arrested for cruelty to animals, after a deputy found two dogs locked in cages without food or water. A Martin County sheriff’s deputy was driving through Dempsey Housing at Warfield Tuesday night, when a resident flagged him down to report having heard two aggressive-sounding dogs over the riverbank. That person said they had heard the dogs for two days, but hadn’t checked on them because they sounded mean. The deputy investigated and found the two dogs locked in side-by-side cages, without food or water and covered in animal waste.Another resident of the […]

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LOUISA, Ky. — Two financial companies involved in separate lawsuits against Addiction Recovery Care have reached a settlement that could resolve their competing claims to nearly $4.7 million in federal tax-refund proceeds currently being held in a court-ordered account. Attorneys for Angelica Capital Trust and Clear Cove Opportunities Fund I notified a federal judge in New York on Sept. 18 that they had reached an agreement involving their two lawsuits against ARC and asked the court to take several steps that would bring both cases to an end. The proposed resolution centers on $4.7 million that has been frozen in […]

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