ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced that two Business Recovery Centers (BRCs) will open on Monday, Aug. 15 in Elkhorn and Virgie, Kentucky. These BRCs are established to provide one-on-one assistance in submitting a disaster loan application for Kentucky businesses impacted by the severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides that began on July 26. The disaster declaration covers Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike, and Whitley counties in Kentucky, which are eligible for both Physical and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) from the SBA.

FRANKFORT, KY – Attorney General Daniel Cameron is reporting that action by his Special Prosecutions Unit has resulted in the indictment of Webster County Sheriff, Donald Jones, 57, of Sebree, KY.

Supporting Communities in Eastern Kentucky Impacted by the Devastating Flooding

LOUISVILLE, KY (August 8, 2022) - Accelecom, a Kentucky-based high-speed fiber optics provider and exclusive wholesaler of the KentuckyWired Project, and Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks with operations in Morehead Kentucky, have teamed up to launch six free Wi-Fi sites throughout the Eastern Kentucky region that has been devastated by major flooding.

Secretary of State Pokes Democrats, Warns Republicans

FANCY FARM, KY – Secretary of State Michael Adams gave the following speech Saturday, August 6, 2022 at Fancy Farm.

Hello, Fancy Farm! Can we get a happy birthday to my beautiful bride, Christina? Happy birthday sweetie.

Democrats! Welcome back! Be sure and try our local barbecue before you get back on that bus to Chicago or St. Louis!

            We do have at least one Democrat here from Kentucky: state party chairman Colmon Elridge. Mr. Chairman, thank you for coming, and may I say, the Titanic could not have a finer captain.

The nominees include Kentuckian Judge Claria Horn Boom, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement following the Senate's confirmation of U.S. Sentencing Commission nominees Judge Claria Horn Boom of the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, Claire McCusker Murray, and Candice C. Wong: