11 arrested in Rowan roundup

MOREHEAD – Rowan County sheriff’s deputies have arrested 11 suspected drug dealers in the opening phase of what Sheriff Jack Carter is calling “Operation Rowan Roundup.” “These are the first of many individuals we expect to round up over...

Hayes Lewis UNITE Club honored

YEADDISS – Outstanding work by members of the Hayes Lewis Elementary School UNITE Club during the 2009-10 school year earned them the UNITE Excellence Award for elementary schools in the central region. The award was presented during a ceremony at the school on...

‘Hope For America Tour’ debuts documentary

A new two-hour documentary focusing on the transformation of an Eastern Kentucky community will have its premier Kentucky showing in Lexington on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Produced by The Sentinel Group, “An Appalachian Dawn” explains how local churches and residents have...

2 arrested in cocaine investigation

PIKEVILLE – Two men were in jail Thursday, Sept. 30, after an Operation UNITE investigation uncovered a cocaine trafficking operation in Pike County. Both men, neither of whom could produce documentation that they were in the United States legally, were taken into...
13 schools attend Hazard youth training

13 schools attend Hazard youth training

Youth from 13 schools across southern Kentucky were introduced to concepts and strategies to make it easier to be drug free during the first part of Operation UNITE’s new Youth Leadership Program on Tuesday, September 28. Approximately 288 students from six counties...