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The City of Wayland has a rich history of diversity, from the native peoples who inhabited the area long before the Europeans arrived, to the African Americans who worked in

The jailhouses weren’t jumping to much over the weekend, with the exception of Boyd County, which saw an influx of federal inmates moving through as they await court hearings at the federal court house in downtown Ashland. While a few notorious names found themselves on the booking logs at Boyd, lock-ups were light, for the most part — fewer than five of the inmates booked over the weekend at Boyd were due to charges incurred on the street. Bench warrants made a good bulk of the arres...

Another weekend has come and gone, and another group of people found themselves looking for bail money on Monday morning.

Another weekend has come and gone, and another group of people found themselves looking for bail money on Monday morning. Drugs, DUIs and bench warrants made up a good bit of the lock-ups over the weekend, online jail records show. Anyone named in the weekend locked-up should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The following people were locked up over the weekend: Boyd County Detention Center • Shawn M. Davis, 28, of Greenup, was booked Saturday on a bench warrant. • Jason M. Mo...

Lock-ups were light in Boyd and Carter, but pretty heavy at the Big Sandy and Rowan over the weekend. Bench warrants, drugs and DUIs made up the bulk of the charges folks were facing over the weekend. Anyone named among those jailed over the weekend should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The following people were locked up over the weekend: Boyd County Detention Center • Casey E. Holbrook, 37, of Ashland, was booked Friday on a circuit court warrant charging him with second-offen...

Happy 89th birthday, Loretta Lynn! The country legend was born on this day, April 14, in 1932. Lynn was born to Theodore Webb, a coal miner, and his wife, Clara Ramey. The second of eight children -- including younger sister Brenda Gail, known as singer Crystal Gayle -- she grew up in Butcher Holler, a small mining community in the town of Van Lear, Ky. Lynn was only 15 years old when she married Oliver Lynn, known as "Doolittle," "Doo" or "Mooney." The couple relocated to Washington state so...

While rivers didn’t rise much from the rain, it appears jail populations rose over the weekend. Boyd, Rowan and the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center all had upticks in lock-ups over the weekend, according to jail records. Anyone named in the locked-up list should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The following people were locked up: Boyd County Detention Center • Garry L. Cornwell, 57, of Ashland, was booked Friday on a second-offense DUI. • Gary E. W...

COVID survivors network offers help getting antibody treatments A survivors network is offering an online portal to help patients see if they qualify for Monoclonal Antibody treatments. Author: Associated Press, Douglas Jones Published: 1:02 PM CDT April 7, 2021 Updated: 1:02 PM CDT April 7, 2021 There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lears anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with some answers. The Texas woman is one of thousands of self-described long-haulers, patients with symptoms that linger or develop out of the blue months after they first became infected with coronaviru...

Scientists try to solve mystery of long-term COVID symptoms Updated Mar 16, 2021; Posted Mar 16, 2021 Karla Jefferies sits in her kitchen in Detroit, Friday, March 5, 2021. Jefferies, 64, a retired state worker in Detroit, Michigan, tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020 and has been bothered by puzzling symptoms ever since. First it was fatigue, fever, and no taste or smell. Then came brain fog, insomnia, a nagging smell of something burning that only recently disappeared, and intermitte...