As coal falls, a digital revolution begins in Appalachia. This hurdle blocks the way.
By Gabriel Sanchez The GroundTruth Project November 12, 2017 6:05 PM PIKEVILLE Editor’s note: This story is part of Crossing the Divide, a cross-country reporting road trip from The GroundTruth Project and WGBH. The team of five reporters...
Kentucky Public Service Commission Holding Meetings on Rate Increase
PSC to Take Public Comments in Kentucky Power Rate Case The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) will hold three meetings to receive public comments on a rate increase proposed by Kentucky Power Co. Prestonsburg Thursday, November 2, 5...
Keep talking about domestic-violence victims
By Darlene Thomas October 13, 2017 5:00 PM Last month marked the 23rd anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. As often happens during annual milestones, reflection on this not-so-distant past was the topic of conversation among advocates...
She was first woman elected to Ky. Supreme Court. After 26 years, she’s leaving the bench.
By Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com October 13, 2017 5:59 PM Appeals Court Judge Janet Stumbo has submitted her resignation, ending a judicial career in which she was the first woman elected to the state Supreme Court without having first...
Why aren’t your kids in school? Kentucky has a truancy problem. See how bad it is.
By Valarie Honeycutt Spears vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com September 24, 2017 11:30 AM Kentucky parents, your kids have a serious school attendance problem. Consider this your collective note from the principal’s office. And then consider t...
The cost of helping Eric Conn in a massive disability fraud? 25 years in prison.
By Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com September 22, 2017 4:05 PM A Pikeville psychologist convicted of taking part in the largest Social Security disability fraud in U.S. history should serve 25 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday. Alf...
Death comes sooner in Appalachia. It comes much sooner in Eastern Kentucky
By Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com August 24, 2017 5:33 AM The years of life Appalachian Kentucky residents lose to health maladies such as heart disease and cancer is 63 percent higher than the national average, according to a report re...
AppalReD Hosts Rural Summer Legal Corps
Anthony McGrath our Rural Summer Legal Corps has completed his 10 week project focusing on government-assisted housing. He has done great work this summer assisting our attorneys in these efforts. Thank you Anthony!
Ky. lawyers follow the way of Atticus Finch, not Eric Conn
By Richard Dawahare - Lexington-Herald Leader Let there be light. And truth. And justice. Justice pursued with courage, molded by civility, tempered with compassion, applied with mercy and achieving hope, faith and fairness for all concerned. A...
Eric Conn, Kentucky's Biggest Con Man
July 14, 20174:57 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Eleanor Klibanoff Twitter Eric Conn was supposed to learn his sentence Friday. He's the Kentucky man who federal authorities say perpetrated the largest fraud in Social Security history. ...