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December 29, 2016 - 10:34 am
Check out this video on The Courier-Journal: http://cjky.it/2heHx2o
December 29, 2016 - 9:55 am
By BY CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press
MINNIE, Ky. (AP) — Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all.
She thought of the disconnect notices, the...
October 21, 2016 - 1:00 pm
By Andrea Saddler - asaddler@civitasmedia.com
PRESTONSBURG – In the United States, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That’s nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces each week and 876,000 divorces a year. Many individuals with...
October 18, 2016 - 3:08 pm
Notre Dame Law Students are using their Fall Break to assist AppalReD with research and a pro se Divorce Clinic (do-it-...
September 30, 2016 - 9:03 am
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - John Rosenberg has many awards hanging on his walls, and two weeks ago he received another one.
Rosenberg, who lives in Prestonsburg, was honored at the Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali awards.
He received the Kentucky...
August 29, 2016 - 3:11 pm
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August 25, 2016 - 3:26 pm
John Rosenberg, who is the founding director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, will receive the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award during the fourth annual awards ceremony in Louisville on September 17th.
August 17, 2016 - 2:19 pm
To offset lost mining jobs, officials, business leaders and environmentalists
are setting aside political feuds to try...
August 9, 2016 - 2:53 pm
John O. Goss, a legal aid lawyer some 40 years ago, responded to a nationwide call to help some 1,500 Social Security disability recipients in rural Appalachian high-poverty counties in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. The recipients were in danger of...
August 8, 2016 - 1:52 pm
AppalReD Legal Aid's Somerset Office Staff attended the Pulaski County "Back to School Extravaganza" on Saturday,...
July 28, 2016 - 9:05 am
AppalReD Legal Aid announces its second do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer. The clinic will be held on October 19, 2016, beginning at 1:00 pm at the Floyd County Extension Office, 921...
July 18, 2016 - 8:34 am
The simple change that could get affordable food to the poor people who need it
The Washington Post
There's an elegant solution to help poor people overcome a problem that can leave them both hungry and unhealthy. Read the full story
July 15, 2016 - 11:33 am
If you are registered to attend this conference, please remember to bring a blanket for our Operation Donation -...
July 14, 2016 - 10:00 am
By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN JULY 14, 2016
Seller-financed home sales are “toxic transactions,” a prominent national consumer law organization said on Thursday as it released a report and called for greater federal and state...
