Pikeville Woman Develops Special Needs Shopping Cart After years of unsuccessful attempts by people across the United States to get a cart for special needs children and adults into Lowe’s Home Improvement stores, a Pike County woman found success, after a personal plea to the CEO of the company. In the past two years,…
KY Crews Headed To Help Florida Crews from Kentucky are on their way to Florida to help with any outages, which could be caused by Hurricane Michael.About 100 Kentucky Power employees and contractors left Tuesday for the Sunshine State.Michael is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, bringing life-threatening storm surge, heavy rain and high…
St. Lawrence Schools Leaders Urge Tax Increase Passage District leaders in Lawrence County Schools are hoping voters will pass a nickel tax when they head to the polls in November.It’s a measure the district’s board of education approved in Feb. 2017, but because of enough signatures on a petition opposing the tax, it was…
KY Has Season’s First Flu Fatality 27 people died from the flu in Lexington last year and now one person has died this year. This is the first flu-related death in Kentucky this season.Health officials are urging people six months and older to get a flu shot. Source: MG News Return to…
New Restaurant Brings Over A Hundred Jobs A groundbreaking was held for a new restaurant coming to Laurel County.A new Texas Roadhouse is coming to London.Officials said they are excited about the location right off of Interstate 75.Crews expect construction to take 119 days and hope to open near the end of February.The restaurant…
Hundreds Of Jobs To McCreary County 350 new jobs are on their way to McCreary County during the next 10 years.Tuesday, Congressman Hal Rogers said the U.S. Army has selected Fibrotex USA, in partnership with Outdoor Ventures Corporation (OVC) to produce next-generation state-of-the-art camouflage netting for the military during the next 10 years in…
Thousands of Pounds Of Pumpkin Wins Grand Prize “One special seed” and months of care by an Oregon commercial pilot produced a massive pumpkin that tipped the scales at a global weigh-in Monday in Northern California, the fourth time his gargantuan plants were awarded top honors.Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, Oregon, also credited lots…
Army To Make Recruiting Changes Army officials say it will take time to overcome the recruiting challenges that caused them to miss their enlistment goal this year. But they say changes that include adding recruiters and beefing up marketing will enable them to get the recruits they need in 2019.Gen. Mark Milley, Army chief…
Gas Prices Up In KY Normally gas prices drop this time of year, but you may have noticed this year it’s not the case.According to AAA, Kentucky had the second highest increase in gas price in the nation compared to last week.“The September switch-over to winter-blend gasoline should have ushered in cheaper gas prices…
KY Governor Honors Police Officers Kentucky’s governor is honoring two police officers who helped save a man’s life at the state Capitol.Gov. Matt Bevin presented Facilities Security Officers Roger Swiger and Casey Mahoney with the honorary commission of Kentucky Colonel on Friday.On Sept. 18, Kentucky NAACP President Raoul Cunningham collapsed during a meeting of…