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Domestic call leads to three drug trafficking arrests
RICHARDSON, Ky. — Police called to a possible domestic dispute Sunday in Lawrence County ended up finding a variety of narcotics and arresting three people for drug trafficking. Two state troopers and a sheriff’s deputy responded to the call, and after questioning some people at the scene, were given permission to enter the home. Inside the home, they immediately spotted some drug paraphernalia, so they obtained a search warrant, which resulted in the discovery of meth, fentanyl, cocaine, pills, marijuana and paraphernalia. Following the discovery, the home’s three occupants, 44-year-old William Blackman Friend, 51-year-old Brandi Annette Meade and 38-year-old Jonathan […]
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Dickenson County Job & Resource Fair planned for June 4 in Clintwood
by RODERICK MULLINS CLINTWOOD, Va. — Job seekers, students, and individuals interested in career training and community resources are invited to attend the Dickenson County Job Fair on Thursday, June 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Dickenson Center for Education & Research (DCER), located at 818 Happy Valley Drive in Clintwood. The event is sponsored by Southwest Virginia Works and the Dickenson County Department of Economic Development and is designed to connect residents with employment opportunities, career training, and valuable community resources. Participating employers currently include Wildwood Recovery Center, Red Onion State Prison, Dickenson County Public Schools, Dickenson […]
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Former Emory & Henry football coach who got his start in Dickenson County remembered
by RODERICK MULLINS ABINGDON, Va. — Former Dickenson County Public Schools teacher and Ervinton High School head football coach Curt Newsome has died at the age of 67. A graduate of Phoebus High School, Va., Newsome went on to play collegiately at Emory and Henry College. Upon graduation, his first coaching job would take him to Dickenson County to head up a struggling Ervinton Rebels football program. The Rebel players bought into his coaching plan and went 7-3 in his first season as the skipper of Rebels. He would later be named Lonesome Pine District Coach of the Year for […]
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Floyd man arrested after woman stabbed
ENDICOTT, Ky. — A Floyd County man is in jail after police say he stabbed a woman Monday evening. Police were called to a home on the Right Fork of Home Branch, where a 45-year-old woman had been stabbed multiple times. After the attack the assailant, who the victim identified as Eddie Dmitruk, 58, of Prestonsburg, ran away from the residence. Police say the woman was stabbed twice in the chest, once in the elbow and once in the armpit. After learning that Dmitruk had possibly fled to a nearby home on Route 194, police found him at that location.While […]
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Human remains discovered in Knott County
AMBURGEY, Ky. — Kentucky State Police are investigating after human remains were discovered Monday morning in Knott County. Troopers, along with volunteer search-and-rescue personnel and K-9 teams from Indiana K-9 United, were searching a wooded area off Big Branch Road at Amburgey when the remains were found shortly before 10 a.m. The Knott County Coroner pronounced the individual dead at the scene. The remains have been sent to the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for an autopsy and positive identification. The investigation remains ongoing and is being led by Kentucky State Police Det. Nathan Roark.
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