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Kentucky State Police investigate trooper-involved shooting in Floyd County
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Kentucky State Police is on administrative leave while an investigation continues into the shooting death of a suspect Feb. 3 in Floyd County. The KSP said in a news release Friday that a critical incident response team has interviewed vital witnesses. The preliminary investigation reveals Trooper Billy Ball conducted a traffic…
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Sewer leak stinking up Inez
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — The odor is overwhelming at the mouth of Saltwell Road along Route 645, residents say. As the complaints pile up, waste from a Martin County Sanitation District sewer lift station runs into Saltwell Creek, causing untold environmental damage. The lift station has been overflowing nonstop for weeks. Residents…
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Mills accepted to BRECC Commitment Coalition
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County Deputy Judge Carolea Mills has been selected to be a member of the National Association of Counties Commitment Coalition, part of the research foundation’s Building Resilient Economies in Coal Communities (BRECC) initiative. The Coalition is a leadership network of 20 coal community leaders who aim to…
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Man in jail after fleeing to hills carrying 4-year-old
WARFIELD — A Tomahawk man is in jail after allegedly assaulting his teenage stepson and fleeing from police carrying a 4-year-old. Sunday afternoon at approximately 4:30, Sheriff Kirk received a call from Dispatch that there was an altercation in progress at White’s Branch involving a man and a 17-year-old juvenile. Upon deputies’ arrival, Justin Fletcher…
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Appalachian Blooms flower farm coming to Lovely
BY PHILL BARNETT MOUNTAIN CITIZEN LOVELY — Lovely residents JC and Danielle Kirk have big plans for the farm they are building, aiming to make it a welcoming place for locals and tourists. Appalachian Blooms Flower Farm will be a roughly one-acre community gathering place and agricultural center. “I want to create a space where…
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City agrees to buy picnic tables, pay storage rental for festival
Correction Due to the City of Inez taking a “recess” with a motion to purchase two picnic tables on the table, the Mountain Citizen incorrectly reported that the vote immediately following the informal recess was to purchase the picnic tables. The reporter was unaware that the meeting resumed before she was readmitted and thought the…
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Attention Martin County Water customers: Possible outages for leak detection work
INEZ — Martin County Water District will begin leak detection in the Inez pressure zone starting Friday night around 10:30 p.m. Alliance Water Resources announced Tuesday that the work would be performed at night to limit the effect on customers. The announcement states: “This will be the first time such leak detection has been performed…
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Kentucky’s abortion bans deny standard health care to women who have non-viable pregnancies, Herald-Leader reports
KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS The Kentucky laws banning abortion “do not legally permit the standard-of-care treatment for a nonviable pregnancy,” writes Alex Acquisto of the Lexington Herald-Leader. “As a result, doctors must refer patients needing otherwise medically recommended terminations out of state in droves, along with people desiring elective abortions, according to interviews with seven providers…
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Radio reporter describes with personal detail what it’s like to go to another state to buy legal cannabis for a medical condition
KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS What is it like for Kentuckians to buy cannabis in another state under Gov. Andy Beshear’s executive order? WUKY’s Karyn Czar, who has one of the 21 medical conditions specified in the governor’s order, a side effect of chemotherapy, got legal cannabis in Illinois, the only adjoining state where Kentuckians can buy…
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Delta-8 THC is legal in Kentucky but has risks and new rules
KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS “While politicians debate whether to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky, a lesser-known product that gets people similarly high is flourishing in the state. And it’s already legal,” reports Morgan Watkins of the Courier Journal.Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, which is moderately less potent but “almost identical to the delta-9 THC in marijuana that drives the…
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