The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal house fire.
The blaze reportedly broke out around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night in a home along Bellflower Road in the Blaine community. Reports indicate two adult males died in the fire.
Officials have not released any information on the... more »
The Lawrence County courthouse may remain closed all week after a water pipe broke, spewing hundreds of gallons of water into the building.
The county clerk says the pipe was located in a second floor ceiling and broke sometime early Monday morning. Government offices were closed for the Christmas... more »
Court officials are still waiting to set a court date for the man arrest in a Lawrence County triple shooting that left one person dead. Police arrested 28-year-old Jim Levering after a manhunt. Ronald Young, 44, and his ex-girlfriend Sherry Smith, 48, were shot by Levering inside a mobile home.... more »
Kentucky State Police say a suspect is in custody after they say one woman was killed and another woman and man were injured in two shooting incidents early Monday morning. KSP Trooper Elliot Gollihue says officers arrested 28-year-old Jimmy Levering at 2:20 p.m. Monday after talking him down from a... more »
LOUISA, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police say they've caught a man wanted after three people were shot in two separate incidents in eastern Kentucky. Trooper Elliot Gollihue says officers arrested 28-year-old Jimmy Levering at 2:20 p.m. EDT Monday after talking him down from a rock ledge in the woods... more »
The Kentucky State Police are investigating two separate shootings in Lawrence County. Police say the shootings occurred just after midnight Monday. One was on Fullers Ridge and the other near Fallsburg Country Store. Officials have not released the names of the victims, but say one was male and the two... more »
A soldier from Lawrence County was among six people killed in a suicide bomb blast Wednesday in Pakistan that also wounded at least 70. WSAZ.com is reporting that the mother of Matthew Sluss-Tiller, 35, says he is one of three U.S. soldiers killed in that blast, which went off near... more »
Kentucky State Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide case in Lawrence County. The incident happened at about 5 p.m. Wednesday at a home on state highway 1760. Police say Philip Thomas Moore, 55, and Stephen Eugene Robertson, 52, were found dead inside the home. Police say Moore had sustained numerous... more »
The search continues for a missing elderly Ohio woman who disappeared into the woods of eastern Kentucky. Investigators say 79-year-old Florence Tkach is an Alzheimer's patient who came to Lawrence County with her caretaker to celebrate Thanksgiving. She was last seen Wednesday night wearing only blue jeans, a short-sleeved white... more »
