Three people are facing drug charges after found large amounts of methamphetamine during traffic stops in Kentucky. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 7:03 PM EDT July 2, 2021
PINEVILLE, Ky. Three people face drug charges after police said they found a total of 150 grams of crystal methamphetamine during two separate traffic stops in Bell and Harlan counties.
Police said they found more than 100 grams of methamphetamine after stopping Billy Griffin, 34, and Christopher Saylor, 24, both from Wallins Creek. They were stopped by police in Pineville, according to reports.
Police also said they stopped Billy Griffin, 34, from Dayhoit, on Log Mountain. During that traffic stop, police said they found more than 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine.
Partial to Home: A bouquet on Seventh Street
Birney Imes
For years I’ve admired the yard of Glenda and Raymond Gross. Last week, seeing them at work, I stopped to admire their work up close and visit. I first met Raymond years ago at the YMCA when we both played handball.
Raymond Gross grew up in Harlan County, Kentucky, the son of a coal miner and a mother who tended the needs of her nine children, which included milking the family cow.
As did most kids growing up in the mid-century rural South, Raymond spent much of his childhood immersed in nature. “We did what country boys did,” he said. Each summer he and his buddies made their own swimming pool by damming Wallins Creek also the name of the small community he lived in. He foraged in the woods for ginseng, mayapple root and bloodroot, which they sold $2 a pound for the ginseng to a man Gross calls “our resident millionaire.”
Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
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New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
Pilot project aims to help at home learners without internet
Kentucky Educational Television has partnered with the Kentucky Department of Education to launch a pilot project that aims to give stronger support to at home learners without internet access, officials said.
KET plans to use datacasting technology to send learning materials through its existing broadcast network to small receiver boxes in homes, the station said in a statement. It has previously used the technology to send emergency information and weather updates.
The initiative is set to begin in January. Participants will be provided with a receiver box and antenna, and teachers will be trained on how to upload curriculum into the system.
Rock slide derails coal train, shuts down rural road
December 18, 2020 GMT
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) A boulder slid off a mountain and rolled onto Kentucky Highway 2007, derailing a CSX coal train Thursday morning, officials said.
Harlan County Judge-Executive Dan Mosley said no injuries were reported. “An early Christmas miracle,” Mosley told the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Two locomotives and eight cars loaded with coal derailed around 2 a.m., after the rock slide, CSX said in a statement. It’s unclear when the rock slide occurred.
The train’s engineer saw the rock on the track and attempted to slow down, CSX said.
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