LONDON, KY - The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Kentucky reported on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 that a Hazard, KY man, Eric Edward Shuffler, 40, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, after pleading guilty to methamphetamine trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

LONDON, KY - Laurel County Sheriff John Root is reporting that: Laurel Sheriff's K-9/Detective Jake Miller along with Detective Bryon Lawson and Detective Sgt. Richard Dalrymple arrested David Cornett age 37 of Old Richmond Rd., London on Thursday afternoon March 3, 2022 at approximately 2:59 PM.

BLEDSOE, KY (March 7, 2022) – The Kentucky State Police is reporting that on Sunday March 6, 2022 at 9:44 P.M., KSP Post 10 Harlan received a call of a single ATV vehicle collision on East KY 221.

LONDON, KY (March 7, 2022) - Laurel County Sheriff John Root is reporting that: Laurel Sheriff's Deputy Tommy Houston arrested Loretta Lynn Smith age 56 of Grannys Branch Road, Manchester, KY early Sunday morning March 6, 2022 at approximately 4:45 AM.

Columbia, KY - Kentucky State Police Post 15 will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints in the Post 15 area, which includes Washington, Marion, Taylor, Green, Casey, Russell, Adair, Metcalfe, Monroe, Clinton, and Cumberland counties.

'It's unfair on a personal level, but even just looking at public health, it is terrible policy for rural America. We cannot have President Biden mass-firing doctors and nurses when hospitals are already short-staffed... If Washington Democrats could safely hobnob in the Capitol all Tuesday evening with no masks, then they ought to stop pushing mass firings of essential health workers.'

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Thursday, March 3, 2022 on the Senate floor regarding healthcare: