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By Bill Estep
bestep@herald-leader.com
December 05, 2017 01:06 PM
UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO
After making and stealing millions of dollars handling federal disability cases and fleeing to avoid prison, former high-flying Eastern Kentucky lawyer Eric C. Conn had his last meal as a free man at a Pizza Hut before police caught him.
Pikeville, Kentucky (CNN)Perhaps it was the abstinence pledge she felt forced to sign or the promise ring she was told to slip on her finger. But from the moment Cheryl became sexually active, she felt dirty.
Then, three boys raped her, reducing her self-image to mud.
She didn't dare tell anyone or seek help. Growing up in rural eastern Kentucky, she'd been raised by drug addicts who'd lost the family home and lived in a place, she says, where there was "nothing left to do but do each other."
By Cassie Chambers
January 02, 2018 04:28 PM
I liked Jane (not her real name) as soon as I met her. She was kind, warm and funny. She asked me so many questions about myself that, at times, I forgot that she was the focus of our meeting.
We were at the courthouse that day because of her husband. A few weeks before he had come home drunk and insisted she make him dinner. Jane, asleep on the couch after a long day of work, told him that he could make it himself.
By Bill Estep
bestep@herald-leader.com
January 03, 2018 02:35 PM
UPDATED January 03, 2018 07:02 PM
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Eula Hall got home from her son’s baseball game one night in 1982 just in time to see a big piece of her life’s work go up in flames.
Hall had scratched to help create and sustain the Mud Creek Clinic in a rural part of Floyd County so people could receive health care, even if they couldn’t pay, and it was burning to ash.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Choked and knocked unconscious, Jeanette McCue said a her husband's violent attack in 2016 left her bruised and battered with black eyes, a split lip and marks around her neck.
McCue of Springfield, Ky., figures she would have been killed except her husband was too drunk to aim when he fired a gun at her.
Electric rates in Eastern Kentucky just changed. Here’s what it means for your wallet.
By Will Wright
wwright@herald-leader.com
January 18, 2018 08:20 PM
The state Public Service Commission approved a rate increase request from Kentucky Power of about 4 percent on Thursday, but the elimination of a separate surcharge will lower rates overall for most customers.
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By KATIE BENNERFEB. 1, 2018
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The Office for Access to Justice's stated mission was to “deliver outcomes that are fair and accessible to all, irrespective of wealth and status.” Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) - Congressman Hal Rogers' office confirmed Friday the Social Security Administration (SSA) will have 2,000 additional former Conn clients attend redetermination hearings. Ned Pillersdorf, who represents Conn’s former clients, said these redetermination hearings will be devastating to people impacted.
Supreme Court justice and advocates fear Kentuckians will suffer from civil legal aid cuts in Governor Matt Bevin Bevin's budget proposal.
Author: Chris Williams
Published: 7:36 PM EST February 6, 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Legal advocates warn that a cut in Governor Matt Bevin's budget proposal could limit civil legal help to thousands of Kentuckians including the elderly, veterans and domestic violence victims.
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