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CRIME & SAFETY
Coroner: 11-year-old dead in apparent drowning
LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - The Letcher County Coroner confirmed to WYMT an 11-year-old boy is dead after an incident in Blackey. The coroner said Curtis Halcomb is believed to have drowned in the North Fork of the Kentucky River. The boy was pulled from the river and taken to...
Father and son die in house fire
FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (WYMT) - A father and his son died Sunday morning after their house burned. The fire occurred in Fleming-Neon along Henry Hutton Drive Sunday morning. Letcher County Coroner, Perry Fowler said the father was 77 and the son was 32 years old. No names have been released yet...
Four charged with stealing water service
Four people were cited recently on charges that they were stealing water service from the City of Hazard. According to court documents, in each case, water service to the residences had been cut off. But, when the City of Hazard Water Department examined the meters running to the residence, they found that water service was running.
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