PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Prestonsburg man was arrested after police say he was involved in a DUI crash with his wife and child in the car. Prestonsburg Police were called shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday to the wreck on U.S. 23. When they arrived, the woman and infant passengers were being taken away in an ambulance, while the driver, 30-year-old Charles Vanderpool, was waiting to also be taken away. A witness told police that Vanderpool’s car was traveling north, when it drifted into the oncoming lane and struck a guardrail. The witness said he never saw Vanderpool hit the brakes. […]

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PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Johnson County man is facing a felony terroristic threatening charge, after a bomb threat was called into the Johnson County Judicial Center. The threat was called into the courthouse on Friday. The clerk who answered the call said a woman told her she had overheard two men talking about planning to target a judge by planting a bomb in the courthouse. Police were able to get the caller’s phone number from Caller ID, which came back to a phone owned by Dusty Adrian Hamilton, 43, of Paintsville. Hamilton had been seen at the courthouse that day, […]

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McDOWELL, Ky. — A Floyd County couple is facing multiple felony counts over allegations they would lock their four children in a room for hours at a time. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office was called Friday to assist the Division of Protection and Permanency with an investigation into a report of child neglect. When deputies arrived at the mobile home on Brown Branch at McDowell, they could see four children watching them from a window on the side of the trailer. Police spoke with the parents — Zachery Kyle Brown, 35, and Cassandra Lashay Brooke Jones-Cooley, 27 — and told […]

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