FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has signed emergency regulations that require doctors to meet tougher prescription standards in an effort to stop drug abuse. The rules, which were given to given to state boards that oversee the…
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Ky. switching to single drug executions
By BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky will switch to a single drug to carry out the execution of condemned inmates under a new set of regulations filed Friday, becoming the latest state to drop a three-drug…
The Spiritual Woman
by Bev Bentley Wilson Elections . . . TV commercials, radio ads, newspaper ads, pre-recorded telephone messages. Elections . . . debates, arguments, mud-slinging, false promises. Elections . . . Our freedom to choose our government leaders. But, who can…
The Light the Night Awareness Walk
Light the Night is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s evening walk held annually to celebrate and commemorate lives touched by blood cancers. Companies, teams, civic groups, neighbors, and friends raise funds and walk carrying illuminated balloons – white for survivors,…
Healthy Baby Workshop
The KIDS NOW Plus program at KRCC’s Regional Prevention Center will be hosting a community wide Healthy Baby Workshop, in Knott County, on Thursday, September 13, 2012. It will be held at the Knott County Cooperative Extension Office, in Hindman,…
Become a Foster/Adoptive Parent
Informational meeting, on August 20 from 6 – 8 p.m., at the Letcher County Protection and Permanency Office in Whitesburg. This is a question/answer time, no commitment required. The need for good foster/adoptive homes is very great. There will be…
Green Dot Community Meeting
The Community Prevention Team meeting will be Thursday, August 16, at the Artisan Center in downtown Hindman from 12-1 p.m. Lunch will be provided! This community meeting addresses issues of violence in Knott Co. and what we as a community…
David Christopher Terry
David Christopher Terry, age 52, of Larkslane, passed away Sunday, July 22, 2012, at the Select Speciality Hospital in Lexington after a long illness. He was born May 28, 1960. He is survived by his parents: James and Joyce Combs…
Roberta H. Wilson
Roberta H. Wilson, age 99 of Hindman, passed away Friday, July 20, 2012, at the Hazard Nursing Home. She was born in Ft. Gay, West Virginia on November 11, 1912, to Wilbert Hoosier and Effie (Crabtree) Hoosier. She was preceded…
Burnet Smith
Burnet Smith, age 64, of Pulaski, Virginia, formerly of Knott County, passed away on July 16, 2012, at Lewis Gale Hospital at Pulaski, Virginia. He was born in Hindman on January 6, 1948, to Earnest Smith and Hattie Terry Smith.…