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(Red Oak) An Irvine, Kentucky man is in custody at the Montgomery County Jail after authorities removed him from an Amtrak passenger train at the Red Oak train Depot. According to the Red Oak Police Department, 77-year-old Virgil Leon Janeway was removed from the train at around 9:59 p.m. at the train depot at 305 S. 2nd Street for public intoxication.
A Stanton home was declared a total loss after a structure fire Sunday morning left the homeowner with severe burns, according to the Clay City Fire Department.
BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A bridge crossing the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Breathitt County is closed due to damage. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials said that the bridge, located at mile marker 4 on KY 3193, will be out of commission until further notice because of damage to a brace.
A woman was killed, and another person was injured early Saturday morning after their vehicle overturned in Perry County.
Millers Creek Fire Rescue crews extinguished a fire in the main building of the Estill County Golf Course early Sunday morning.
Morgan County residents are being urged to keep their doors and windows locked as authorities continue searching for two who walked away from the Woodsbend Youth Development Center.
High winds, dry conditions, and late-season garden burns helped touch off a massive outbreak of wildfires throughout Breathitt County in October 1952. Reports came in of fire on the Flint Davis Farm, at Press on South Fork, on Frozen, Houston, and in every corner of the county, it seemed. Reports from across the state filled newspapers with accounts of massive fires in Clay, Harlan, Letcher, Bell, and Leslie Counties. Fires were reported in the western section of the state and even in the Bluegrass region, where fires were large wildland blazes and were rare.
In its first year of grant-making, the foundation has helped fund diabetic eye exams, glasses and emergency dental care for uninsured patients in Bath County.
