Sam Adams

Kentucky

Newspaper Reporter at The Mountain Eagle

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Letcher Fire, EMS goes broke, shuts down all services

4 days ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

Letcher Volunteer Fire Department and Letcher EMS are not operating after an apparent financial collapse of the organizations. Neon Fire and Rescue is covering emergency medical calls, and fire departments in the surrounding the area are handling any calls for fire service. The financially troubled ambulance service sparked the crisis when it laid off all employees last week and ambulances […]
Attorney seek a second deposition from Stines

1 week ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against former deputy sheriff Ben Fields are seeking to keep the discovery portion of the case open another six months and asked the judge to order another deposition with former sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines. The request is based on a state- ment the defense attorney in Stines’s murder case made on a tabloid TV […]
Bond set at $1 million for accused killer

1 week ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

A man charged in a year-old murder on Cowan is being held in the Letcher County Jail under a $1 million bond. Mark A. Miles, 65, of Cowan, who called 9-1-1 and told a dispatcher he found Angela Jeanette Roberts dead in her car at a Cowan cemetery in 2024, is now accused of killing her. A Letcher County Grand […]
White House denies request from Letcher schools

1 week ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

The Trump administration has denied the Letcher County School District’s request to reconsider taking away a $3 million federal grants that was already approved for the district and obligated to pay for 25 new school buses. “We were notified on Friday that our reapplication was denied,” Superintendent Denise Yonts said this week. “The state will appeal on our behalf.” The […]
Up to one-fourth of state’s coal miners have black lung, showing the need to maintain funding of federal agency

2 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

Between a fifth and a quarter of central Appalachian miners have complicated black lung, a study by the largest black lung clinic in Kentucky indicates, underlining the need to maintain funding for the National Institute of Safety and Health. NIOSH certifies “B Readers,” who examine miners for the disease, offers miners screening for black lung, researches the disease to set […]
Chance of a lifetime

2 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

Letcher Central High School band students chosen for two-week concert tour of Europe Two Letcher County Central High School band students will get the chance of lifetime this summer when they begin a two-week concert tour through Europe.
OSM layoffs would cause loss of funds for projects here

3 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

The retired head of the Office of Surface Mine Reclamation and Enforcement’s London office says a recommendation by the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to move auditors out of the agency will hamstring its ability to collect money from coal companies to pay for Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation. Abandoned Mine Lands money pays for water systems in areas where […]
Stines appears stressed in video

3 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

Another snippet of video leaked this week in the Shawn Mickey Stines murder case does little to explain why Stines shot and killed District Judge Kevin Mullins, who had been a friend and a frequent attendee at poker games in Stines’s garage. It does, however, show Stines was panicky and paranoid as he sat handcuffed in a chair in the […]
New homes not only out of flood plain, they’re also solar-powered

1 month ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

It was 5:30 a.m. July 28, 2022, when Michael Riley got up to get ready for work, and rain was pouring down on the metal roof. When he looked out the back door of the mobile home he and his family rented at Mayking, the North Fork of the Kentucky River, which normally runs behind the home, was now on […]
Isom airport plans move ahead after land buy

1 month ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

The Letcher County Airport Board is in the process of buying the final piece of property needed for the planned airport at Isom. The fiscal court voted at its last meeting to turn over the $30,000 needed for that last purchase to the board. Jeffery Just ice, executive director of Pine Mountain Partnership and a member of the airport board, […]