CENTRAL APPALACHIA — Heavy storms are taking their toll on power lines throughout the Mountain Top News coverage area, with West Virginia counties being especially hard hit. Mingo and Logan counties were reporting nearly 3,500 outages as of 11:15 a.m. In Kentucky, neighboring Pike County was reporting nearly 2,000 customers without power, while that number reached more than 500 in Martin County and more than 400 in Floyd County. Outages by utility and county were as follows at 11:15 a.m.: KENTUCKY POWERFloyd 439Johnson 103Knott 5Lawrence 136Letcher 5Magoffin 11Martin 267Pike 1,928Outage map: https://outagemap.kentuckypower.com/ BIG SANDY RECCFloyd 41Johnson 33Martin 248Outage map: https://outagemap.bigsandyrecc.com/ […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. – The undergraduate elementary teacher preparation program at the University of Pikeville Patton College of Education has earned an “A” from the National Council on Teacher Quality for how well they prepare future teachers to teach reading to elementary students. The report, “Teacher Prep Review: Decoding Progress in Reading Preparation,” published on June 9, spotlights UPike for meeting the standards set by literacy experts for coverage of the most effective methods of reading instruction. Specifically, this means the program is preparing aspiring teachers in all five components of scientifically based reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension […]

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GRETHEL, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been indicted on charges related to a 2022 traffic stop, including an allegation that he tried to bribe is way out of trouble. Luke McKinney, 39, of Grethel, is now charged with DUI, meth possession, fleeing police, bribery of a public servant and numerous traffic violations, following his indictment last week. He was arrested after being pulled over on Route 1426 in January of 2022 and allegedly found with more than 14 grams of meth in his pocket. The police report accuses him of offering the state trooper who pulled him over […]

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