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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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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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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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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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — The prosecution has filed its response to a request by Michael McKinney that he be freed from home incarceration and drug testing requirements. McKinney is charged with evidence tampering related to the murder of Amber Spradlin, whose body was found in his home June 18, 2023. McKinney’s son, M.K. McKinney, has been charged with her murder. Like Michael McKinney, M.K. McKinney and family friend Josh Mullins are also charged with multiple counts of evidence tampering for allegedly trying to cover up the crime. After the murder trial was delayed until January during a hearing last month, Michael […]

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