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While children were searching for Easter eggs over the weekend, local law enforcement was busy searching for drugs and bench warrants, jail records show — especially in Boyd and at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, records show. The following people were locked up over the weekend. Anyone named in the lock-ups should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Boyd County Detention Center • April D. Combs, 38, of Hazard, was booked Friday as a federal inmate on a first-degree promotion of contraband charge. • Autumn A. Wallace, 20, of Ashland, was booked Friday on a h...

A Johnson County man has died after a fire early Sunday morning a home along Route 201. Fire crews with WR Castle Fire & Rescue were dispatched just before 2:30 and found heavy fire in a mobile home just six minutes later. Crews from the Rockhouse and Flat Gap fire departments were also requested to assist at the scene. Once crews were able to bring the fire under control, they say they found the body of a male occupant inside the home. Reports indicate the man was 61-year-old Ralph David Blakeman. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Johnson County Coroner’s Office, and Kentucky State Po...

/ WSIP AM 1490 | CBS Sports Dec 11, 2020 6:57 AM Due to a main line break, although no contamination has been confirmed, Paintsville Utilities has voluntarily issued a boil water advisory in the Flat Gap area from the Post Office to the Flat Gap School and to the top of Flat Gap Hill. Also on RT 1092 to Fox Hunters Ridge. This advisory is being issued as a precautionary measure and is in effect until further notice. Paintsville Utilities is advising all customers in the affected areas to boil their water before using it for drinking, making ice, cooking, washing dishes, brushing teeth or foo...

>> jesus, please be with these people. >> reporter: those floating homes slamming right into this bridge. this is your brother's place. >> my brother's place. >> reporter: paul stapleton's family washing away with their home. he managed to rescue them with a boat the family clinging to a tree down river. >> it wasn't pretty. >> it wasn't pretty. >> it wasn't a pretty sight at all. nothing pretty about this. >> but at least they're alive. >> they're alive. >> reporter: washed-out roads and debris everywhere, making the search for survivors even harder. in the last 24 hours, nearly 500 reports o...