32-year-old Cecil Todd Collett of Pennington Gap, Va. died after a tree weighing more than 6,000 pounds fell on the pickup truck he was driving at the mine, per a report from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
The money will be used to renovate parking and restroom facilities, as well as to repave an access road and create a new trail at the Ratliff Hole Area of the park, located in Pike County.
A man and woman wanted on warrants from an investigation by the Wayne County Sheriff Drug Enforcement Unit have been arrested in Cabell County, according to Sheriff Rick Thompson.
Park officials say family members who want to visit or perform minor cleanup will receive assistance to cemeteries that are inside the park boundary and are difficult to access.
Tennessee’s top Republicans are at odds over the state’s new ‘truth in sentencing’ legislation, which requires mandatory sentences with no chance of parole for certain crimes.
Hunter Hobson was arrested in Knoxville on Thursday on charges of money laundering and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act through an alleged scheme to pay bribes to Egyptian officials.
Thursday, Senator Mitch McConnell met with local leaders in Boyd and Elliott counties to announce an increase in federal funds to the FEMA Cost Share Program.
Cars lined up outside Buffalo Trace Distillery for their annual Easter drive-through event, where families could collect eggs and treats and visit the bunny.
By Camruinn Morgan-Rumsey and The Associated Press
With inflation raging and state coffers flush with cash, governors and lawmakers across the U.S. are considering a relatively simple solution to help ease the pain people are feeling at the gas pump and grocery store — sending money.
A typically busy parking garage in the heart of downtown Lexington was filled with police a little before three Saturday morning. We now know one man was shot and killed, another taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries.