Pikeville preparing for ‘bigger, better’ Christmas With a First Responder

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Officials in Johnson County are looking for a missing person. Nina Hitchcock was last seen around 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Sitka community. She was wearing green scrub pants and leaving her home in a silver SUV with two men. If you have any information,...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Update: 01/30/2023: Officials said Nina Hitchcock was found and is home. Officials in Johnson County are looking for a missing person. Nina Hitchcock was last seen around 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Sitka community. She was wearing green scrub pants and leaving her home in...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - Water now sits below the creek banks, but the mental replay of it so many feet higher has changed perspectives. “Life has changed for everybody. Don’t take nothing for granted. Stuff is just stuff. Your life is more important,” Letcher County firefighter Wallace Bolling Jr. said.

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - We are following reports of a deadly crash. Floyd County Judge-Executive Robbie Williams told WYMT two county employees were involved in a crash on Monday. He said the crash happened in the Allen community on KY 1428 near the Worldwide Equipment Building. Williams added one...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - The Garrett area of Floyd County was one of many communities across the region that were rocked by flood waters in July 2022. “Pure chaos,” said Garrett Fountain owner Amber Sparkman. “Everywhere you could look, there was people that were getting devastated. They lost their home, people lost their businesses, their place of work.”

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - For the Dunn family of Breathitt County, July 27, 2022 started as a regular day, but as July 28 came, their lives would be forever changed. “We just never expected that it would flood here because I’ve lived here my entire life,” said Breathitt County native Chelsey Dunn. “I literally stayed late at work helping get all of our little clients from our homeless shelter to safety, and once I pulled up here, it was already too late to pull to my driveway.”

KNOTT COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Just days following July 28th’s historic flood, WKCB The Killer B’s staff were cleaning up what was left behind of their building. “I was just in total shock,” said WKCB’s General Manager Randy Thompson. “I had never seen water like that before, and I really didn’t know what we were going to do.”

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Governor Andy Beshear appointed a new magistrate in Harlan County. Harlan County Judge-Executive Dan Mosley said he received an Executive Order from the governor Monday morning appointing Robert Leo Miller, of Harlan, to succeed Clark “Sparky” Middleton as District 1 Magistrate. Middleton died...

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - This week marks six months since the historic flooding in eastern Kentucky that took the lives of 44 Kentuckians and destroyed hundreds of homes. Rebuilding will take years, but the region has received lots of help along the way. Donors from across the world raised...

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Three women are facing drug charges following a weekend raid in Harlan County. It happened Saturday night at a home in Closplint across from a county park. Deputies from the Harlan County Sheriff’s Office were serving a search warrant when they found a crystal-like substance...

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - It was a full night of high school basketball in the mountains from Richmond to Phelps!. Covington Holy Cross 60, Hazard 45 (All “A” Quarterfinals) Evangel Christian 86, Martin County 55 (All “A” Quarterfinals) Bell County 78, Middlesboro 69. Corbin 79, Whitley...

RICHMOND, Ky. (WYMT) - The Panther stay in Richmond ended up being just one day too short. Pikeville fell to Covington Holy Cross 48-32 in the semifinals of the Girls All “A” Classic. Kristen Whited led the Panthers (18-5) with 10 points. Aleah Arlinghaus of Covington Holy Cross...

JEREMIAH, Ky. (WYMT) - Everything inside the Letcher Independent Baptist Church was damaged in the July 28 flood. Six months have passed since the historic flood, but another rainy day brings back memories of destruction. “Yeah we had people right here this morning that lost their homes, living in little...

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - While today will be a little on the quieter side, Tuesday and Tuesday night look to turn a little active. It could be a wild ride at times, so strap in. Scattered chances for showers will be around off and on all day today. Scattered is the keyword in that sentence. Most of us will start out in the mid-40s this morning and head into the low 50s this afternoon. Skies should be overcast for most of the day even when it’s not raining.