June 14, 2024 -Flag Day
Sun and heat are the words today and a steamy weekend is coming up, details are on the way.
Floyd County Schools’ Dr. Patricia Watson and the district’s Young Authors Program received a 2024 Action Award, presented by the Prichard Committee team and their President, Bridgette Blom. Action Awards are given to individuals and programs that are constantly working to improve education outcomes. This prestigious award was one of nine given at the 2024 Groundswell Summit in Owensboro, KY, June 11, 2024. More than fifty entries were considered. An audience of over 300 Prichard Committee members from across Kentucky were present during this awards event.
A four hundred-thousand-dollar grant was awarded Monday to ARH for a mobile healthcare facility, the announcement came Monday morning from Governor Andy Beshear’s senior advisor Rocky Adkins.
Magoffin County officials have declared a state of emergency after a main sewer line on 460 fractured and caused raw sewage to get into the licking river, Mayor Stanley Howard said this could potentially impact not only the environment but health. He also stated that an emergency contractor is going to be handling the problem.
A man from Pike County was charged with vehicular homicide after he is alleged to have ran over a cyclist and ran from the scene. 68-year-old Clinton Wayne Justice of Cloe Road was arrested at his home Wednesday night around eleven and noted he had drooping eyelids and had problems understanding or following any instructions. He supposedly hit the victim who was on a bicycle and ran, but a witness was able to get the license plate number and police traced it to Justice.
Another drug bust came out of a minor traffic violation just after midnight Wednesday when a State Trooper caught a GMC Sierra that was missing a headlight. When the Trooper pulled over the vehicle, he approached and spoke with 30-year-old Christen Brown of Virgie, and gave him a field sobriety test, that Brown failed. He was arrested and then a search of the car turned up a large amount of meth, heroin and suboxone. Brown’s passenger, identified as 24-year-old Dericka Knott of Shelbiana denied the drugs were theirs, and found her in possession of five hundred dollars in cash, she was also arrested, and both charged with meth, heroin, and suboxone trafficking, and other charges.
