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/ WSIP AM 1490 | CBS Sports Jul 11, 2021 | 8:55 PM Severe thunderstorms and flash flooding on Saturday throughout the area took a toll on parts of Magoffin County. Officials there say the cleanup process is an in-depth but important one. Magoffin County Judge-Executive Matt Wireman said culverts couldn’t handle the water and that some water also got into the county garage. In addition to the water, fallen trees caused damage. The building’s roof, flooring and trucks in the lot all sustained damage. '); } return false; }); $('#comments .commentlist .comment-content a').attr('target'...

Flooding blocks roads and forces evacuations across Magoffin County and last updated 2021-03-01 21:16:13-05 SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — Magoffin County officials declared a state of emergency as the water continued to rise from the Licking River and surrounding creeks overnight, shutting down roads and forcing people to evacuate. Hours after the last drop fell, Salyersville's Ramey Memorial Park resembled a fishing pond. Water still filled some buildings along Highway 7. We were in communication with Matt Wireman, the county's judge executive. He says he barely slept on Sunday night. On...

Chris Kenning, Louisville Courier Journal Published 1:15 pm UTC Mar. 1, 2021 LAKEVILLE, Ky. — Year after year, Larry Flynt’s private Lear jet would streak through the sky to land at a remote Appalachian airfield, his bodyguards pushing him in his gold-plated wheelchair to a waiting car. The "poor little pornographer from Eastern Kentucky,” as he once called himself, would wind his way through the two-lane roads of Magoffin County toward a one-story home in Lakeville, a Bible Belt hamlet on Kentucky's Licking River, where Flynt grew up as the son of a tobacco farmer and bootlegger. It...