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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...

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!

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

May 16, 2017 | Joshua Wilkey   Poor people are cash cows.  It makes no sense, really. One would think that poor people, by virtue of being poor, would not be profitable customers. However, for many large corporations that...

May 17, 2017, 11:26am Dr. Jessica Wilkerson It's fashionable to note that Appalachia voted overwhelmingly for Trump—and to predict political karma since he's proposed massive funding cuts that will affect the region. But people in Appalachia have ...