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Why aren’t your kids in school? Kentucky has a truancy problem. See how bad it is.

September 25, 2017

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.

September 25, 2017

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

August 24, 2017

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

July 21, 2017

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

July 18, 2017

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, 2017

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. ...

Attorneys offer advice on escaping domestic violence

June 23, 2017

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Eastern Kentucky attorneys are offering advice to people trying to escape domestic violence after one Laurel County woman was murdered by her husband Tuesday night at their home. "What we try to do is make a difference vict...

The Car Was Repossessed, but the Debt Remains

June 19, 2017

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERYJUNE 18, 2017 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Photo Unable to recover the balance of loans by repossessing and reselling the cars of owners who default, some subprime lenders...