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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...

The following people were locked up over the weekend:

Update 3-7-21:  This boil water advisory has now been lifted. Due to a main line break, although no contamination has been confirmed, Paintsville Utilities has voluntarily issued a boil water advisory for the following areas: – RT 321 from the top of Starfire Hill to the American Standard Bridge including all side roads in between. This also includes the area across the American Standard Bridge. – RT 1428 from the old Adams Construction location to US 23including all side roads in between....

/ WSIP AM 1490 | CBS Sports Mar 5, 2021 12:16 AM Paintsville Utilities reports that a water line break is to blame for a water outage that began on Thursday evening in Johnson County. Residents in Hager Hill, Van Lear and West Van Lear have reported water outages. Paintsville Utilities says their crews have located the water line break and have determined it occurred as a result of a river bank failure. The water company says they cannot safely put our employees in this location tonight to ma...

If youve got about five minutes, lets take a trip back in time to Butcher Hollar, Kentucky, near the little town of Van Lear, and visit the childhood home of Loretta Lynn. A couple of Yankee friends of mine with their camera rolling made the short drive out of my Johnson County home town of Paintsville, a few miles down to Hagar Hill, through West Van Lear and Van Lear, and along the beautiful Millers Creek Drive (an awesome drive through the Appalachian foothills) to Butcher Hollar. If you saw...