Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear was expected to file suit against Republican lawmakers and Gov. Matt Bevin today after Bevin signed a teachers’ pension bill into law last night. More...
More than 80 people who completed a 12-week fitness challenge have lost 601 pounds combined. Brandy Cook, a certified personal trainer from Whitesburg, created the “New Year New You” challenge as a way to pay it forward and help oth More...
FRANKFORT In February 2016, a young woman was working to get a Republican candidate elected to a state House seat in Kentucky. Jeff Hoover, the Republican leader at the time, made her a deal: Win the election, and he would pay for a hotel More...
LOUISVILLE Kentucky teachers who rallied last week at the state Capitol to support education funding plan to be there again Friday when state lawmakers reconvene to consider overriding the Republican governor’s veto of budget and revenue measur More...
How good is Kentucky signee Tyler Herro? The 6-5 guard from Whitnall High School in Greenfield, Wisconsin has a fan in Rivals.com recruiting writer Krysten Peek. More...
While it is going to warm up two or three days later this week, this early spring has mostly been cold so far. However, it is still time for crappie to start moving to shallower waters and to the back of main lake creek areas. More...
I have been scouting here in Kentucky, and it looks like we have a good crop of long beards to hunt. Out of four farms I have personally scouted, I heard or saw turkeys on each one. More...
By WILSON CASEY 1. Is the book of Judges in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. By Roman reckoning, what time of day did Jesus meet the Samarian woman at the well? Daybreak, Noon, Mid-afternoon, Dusk 3. More...
By JEANETTE TACKET YONTS With DOROTHY PENNINGTON TACKET
As I sit here thinking of all the injustices that are being done to state employees and teachers, I am reminded of all the things our grandparents had to go through with the coal miners’ wages and the unsafe working conditions they had to face. More...
Drivers worried they’ll break an axle or warp a wheel on the potholes along Letcher County’s state highways may soon be breathing a sigh of relief. More...
The City of Whitesburg will host a new event, a monthly car show tentatively named “Whitesburg on Wheels,” beginning at a date to be determined in May. More...
We understand the frustration caused by the heavy-handed tactics sometimes employed by federal agents, particularly after one of our own reporters experienced it firsthand just recently. More...
• Don’t throw toads out of your garden! There’s hardly a better pest-control method than these good old-fashioned bug eaters. Toads can eat hundreds of bugs a week, and they don’t cost a dime. More...
Call 633-7508 from 9 am Tuesday to 9 am Friday. E-m@il address In addition to the telephone and the U.S. Mail, The Mountain Eagle accepts comments to Speak Your Piece by electronic mail. Our address is: mtneagle@bellsouth.net More...
Virginia R. Staples, 86, died Saturday, April 7, at her home in North Smithfield, R.I. Born in Whitco, she was a daughter of the late William and Cordelia Cuzzort Hammonds. More...
Funeral services for Charles Allen Stidham, 68, were held April 6 at Millstone Missionary Baptist Church. Burial was in Green Acres Cemetery at Ermine. Born in Millstone, he was a son of the late Nathan and Mildred Evans Stidham. More...
Ivan Gay Cornett, 82, of Linefork, died April 5 at Tri City Nursing Home. A son of the late Edward and Susan Cornett, he was a brother of the late Coolidge Cornett, Kenneth Cornett, and Warren Cornett. More...