Scene inside the Circuit Courtroom in Clay County, Kentucky, Thursday, June 2, 2022

By Stella B. House, Attorney-at-Law, PSC

MANCHESTER, KY (June 4, 2022) - In 2008, when the Clay County Board of Education purchased approximately five acres from Melvin Hoskins' heirs, the Board knew that .379 acres of land had been dedicated to a cemetery, that being The Hoskins Cemetery.

PIKEVILLE, KY (June 4, 2022) – The Kentucky State Police reported on Thursday that several subjects were arrested Wednesday evening after illegal drugs and stolen items were discovered at a Pike County home. 

Len Rineholt, Whitetop Band of Native Indians Chairman 

By Len Rineholt, Chairman, Whitetop Band of Native Indians

To the many concerned,

Let it be known that The Tribal Council of The Tribe of the Whitetop Band of Native Indians, has been continually opposed to the Clay County School Board of Education (Kentucky) in the matters of the relocation of the interred at the place known as Hoskins Cemetery in Clay County KY.

LONDON, KY - The Kentucky State Police, London Post which provides coverage for Clay, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne and Whitley counties, will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints as approved by the Kentucky State Police Policy and Procedures Manual.

LONDON, KY— The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Kentucky is reporting that Jake Messer, 39, of Rockholds, Kentucky, was sentenced to Life in federal prison on Tuesday, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier.  On February 10, 2022, Messer was convicted by a federal jury of two counts of kidnapping, following his indictment in November of 2020.

COVINGTON, KY— The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Kentucky is reporting that a Florence, Ky., man, William Freddy Jackson, 43, was sentenced to 280 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, with a prior conviction for a serious drug felony.