Page 2 - Gary Ball News Today

Gary Ball was originally wanted for violation of parole before the TBI said he led officers on a chase and shot at them in December.

Business Reporter Alana Edgin reviews Lubbock area business news and previews upcoming stories.

Alma starting pitcher Logan Taylor is made for the role of staff ace.

Elsewhere, Bobby Lynch easily won re-election in Davenport, Omar Arroyo won a 3-way race in Haines City, and Dundee rejected 3 of 5 charter amendments.

Mother, wife, friend, homemaker, artist, caring community member—these are just a few of the ways to describe Betty Harlane Lehman, who left this world on Saturday, July 17, 2021, surrounded by friends and family. Betty was 79. Born Jan. 2, 1942, in Drakesboro, Betty was the daughter of the late Harlan Hope and the late Elizabeth Hope. Betty married Charles B. “Goober” Lehman and had two daughters, Beth Lehman Morrell (Tim) of Nashville, Tenn., and Dawn Lehman Kopra, (Tim) of Lea...

Notorious Plymouth boy racer Jack Pester-Johns faces jail Troublemaker Jack Pester-Johns will be sentenced for spree of new offences and two previous robberies The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the best and latest crime stories with our Court Insider newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy ...

>> reporter: its left workmen with no other choice. twice a week hope and her daughter drive up this dirt path on the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through to get water. >> reporter: 20 years ago, she placed this 3 1/2 foot long type into this hillside to take a spring. just to collect clean drinking water because, obviously, no one drinks the water here. do you drink it? >> oh, no. no. no way that he drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor of the local paper and water is has ...

On the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through to get water. >> reporter: 20 years ago, she placed this 3 1/2 foot long pipe into this hillside to tap a spring. just to collect clean drinking water. because obviously, no one drinks the water here. do you drink it? >> no. theres no way that i drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor in chief of the local weekly paper, "the mountain citizen." water has been a front page story for most of his career. whats going on here? the citizen...

Correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has their story. the. >> reporter: the hills of appalachia are part of americas legacy. the people here in martin county, kentucky, proudly self-sufficient. but it is hard to take care of yourself when you dont have the most basic of necessities. >> we have blue water here. >> reporter: it left hope workman with no other choice. twice a week, hope and her daughter drive up this dirt path on the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through to get water. >> repo...

Drinking water because obviously no one drinks the water here. >> do you drink it? >> oh, no. theres no way that i drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor and chief of the local weekly paper, the mountain citizen. water has been a front page story for most of his career. whats going on here, the citizens, the people who live here and deal with this every day, where do they put this on their list of concerns? >> in 2018 in the very place where lbj declared the war on poverty 54 years ago, ...