Sam Adams

Kentucky

Newspaper Reporter at The Mountain Eagle

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‘Side-by-side’ measure is off for now after riders object

1 week ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

An ordinance that would allow side-by-sides and other “special purpose vehicles” to travel legally on two-lane highways in Letcher County has had a blowout. The Letcher Fiscal Court this week tabled the proposed ordinance to opt into a state law passed during the last session of the General Assembly. The law, known by its legislative bill number SB 63, would […]
Both cases involving ex-sheriff Stines still alive

2 weeks ago | themountaineagle.com | Sam Adams

Despite widespread rumors, there’s been no evidence presented showing the cases are connected A brief filed in the federal civil lawsuit against former sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines and other defendants has kept the case open for now, after Stines was dropped from it when he resigned from office following his arrest for murder in the shooting death of Letcher District Judge Kevin R. Mullins.
Letcher Fire, EMS goes broke, shuts down all services

3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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 […]