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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted $1.7 million for five brownfield projects in Kentucky.

The federal grants help communities plan the cleanup and...

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MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say they have charged a father and son in a hit-and-run crash that killed a good Samaritan.

Police say 59-year-old Adia Fuson of Ingram stopped...

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say they are looking for a vehicle involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Bell County.

Police say in a statement that 59-year-old Adia Fuson...

SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) — Longtime Kentucky journalist Ewell Balltrip, who also was active in education and community development, has died.

Southern Oaks Funeral Home said the 68-year-old Harlan...

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — An underground shuttle car has struck and killed a 56-year-old coal miner in Kentucky.

Jeffery Norman Sloan, of Clifton, Tennessee, was hit around 11:20 a.m. Monday morning at Tennco Energy's Toms Fork mine in Bell County in southeastern Kentucky.

It was Kentucky's first coal mining death of 2019 and the second nationally. Kentucky recorded just one coal mining death last year, in March.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man is accused of crashing his truck into a radio tower and silencing the local station before fleeing the scene.

News outlets report Joshua Lee was arrested Monday night on charges including criminal mischief, failure to report a traffic accident and failure to maintain insurance. Bell County police say a piece of the truck was left near the scene and led them to Lee, who admitted to the crash.

Adair Co. 78, Barren Co. 65

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Coal Academy is offering free initial mining trainings this month at the Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College in Harlan and Middlesboro.

The training is taught by a Kentucky certified instructor, qualified by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. So far this year, the Coal Academy has provided 1,252 certifications through its program.

Anderson Co. 73, Owen Co. 43

Augusta 73, Silver Grove 28

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says a pharmacist from Kentucky has been indicted on charges that he submitted fraudulent claims for prescription medications to Medicare and TennCare.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Bigfoot exists, and the critter stands, more than 7 feet tall, in Middleboro's city museum.

By stands we mean a little bit precariously, because he is jerry-rigged with stuffing that includes wads of newspaper coupon inserts. He also lacks one foot, which may be fortunate, because the foot he has is adorned with toenails so long they look like they could slice through a man with a single badly placed step.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a man driving a riding lawn mower has died after being hit by a van in Bell County.

WYMT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2bI2Gxk) that Bell County Coroner Jay Steele says 27-year-old Berlin Forest Howard died Monday after being struck by the vehicle.

Howard was working for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park when he was hit.

Steele says he died from blunt force trauma. An autopsy will be performed.

PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two of three inmates who escaped from a jail in southeastern Kentucky are back in custody.

TV station WATE reports (http://bit.ly/2axwl07 ) 27-year-old Gary Mills turned himself in Wednesday in Knox County. That's after authorities recaptured 28-year-old Bobby Holman in Middlesboro on Tuesday night after the escape from the Bell County Detention Center that morning.