There’s a lot of warmer temperatures and sunshine in the forecast ahead for the next few days. We’ll talk about it in a few moments, It’s Tuesday May 28th, 2024.
On Sunday, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet closed Lost Creek Road at mile point 2.2 because of pavement damage. The road was scheduled to be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday for repairs, but officials said the road has deteriorated to the point where the road is impassable. Signs and barricades were placed to warn drivers. The repairs are scheduled to take place today and tomorrow.
Kentucky State Police Troopers are investigating a deadly hit and run in Mousie which is in Knott County. This happened around 1:06 in the morning Saturday on KY-550. Troopers responded to the scene. After an investigation, officials said 48-year-old Bemas R. Noble was on a lawn mower and going east. Officials confirmed a car hit the lawn mower, causing deadly injuries. Noble was pronounced dead by the Knott County Coroner’s Office. If you have any information, you can call KSP Post 13 at 606-435-6069.
A Floyd County couple were arrested recently after police responded to a welfare check at a home and found the mother and father to be too intoxicated to care for the children. According to an arrest citation written by Deputy Dusty Newsome, he was dispatched to the Left Fork of Conn Branch, where a Floyd County Schools bus driver had attempted to drop off one of their children but neither of the parents would not come to the door. Newsome also wrote, deputies were informed that there were infants inside the residence. The Prestonsburg Police Department‘s school resource officer had responded and was able to make contact with the father, Daniel Johnson, 39, after waking him up. The mother, Rhiannon Hope Salisbury, 28, was still inside the residence, unconscious on the couch. Both Johnson and Salisbury, according to the citation, were considered to be under the influence while caring for the three juveniles in the home and the one they were unable to retrieve from the school bus. Johnson and Salisbury were charged with second-degree wanton endangerment and lodged in the Floyd County Detention Center.
An Offutt man now faces additional drug trafficking charges after a May 15 K9 search of his vehicle during a public intoxication arrest, according to court documents. The citation said 44-year-old Southie Fannin of Banjo Branch, Offutt, refused to allow Paintsville Police Department officers to search his vehicle while being arrested for public intoxication and possession of marijuana, leading Paintsville Chief Danny Smith to call in the Johnson County Sheriff’s office for a K9 deployment. In addition to the charges stemming from his original arrest, Fannin was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, first-offense trafficking in legend drugs, first-offense prescription-controlled substance not in proper container and possession of drug paraphernalia. Fannin was lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
On May 16 and 17, the upcoming graduates of Johnson Central High School visited their former elementary schools for a final walk through the halls where their educational journeys began. During the visit, the seniors offered advice to the elementary students, and they received advice from the elementary students, who encouraged them to remember to have some fun every now and then.
