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EXCLUSIVE: Teen, mother recount 17-hour coal mine entrapment
Harless tells how she crawled to freedom and led rescuers to diabetic stepfather BY ANNIE HOLLER MOUNTAIN CITIZEN LOVELY — A 14-year-old girl crawled through an opening “no larger than a rabbit hole” Sunday evening and led rescuers to the passage they widened to save her diabetic stepfather from an abandoned coal mine. Ada Harless…
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Drug sweep nets 28 arrests in KSP Post 9 district
PIKEVILLE — A Kentucky State Police drug sweep across the Post 9 area netted 28 arrests, 54 criminal charges and more than $102,000 worth of illegal drugs, police announced Tuesday. Operation Mountain Justice targeted suspected drug trafficking networks operating throughout the area. Troopers and detectives seized approximately 4.7 pounds of suspected methamphetamine, 130 grams of…
