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10.16.25 · The Mountain Eagle

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Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Mountain Eagle to read news
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from Weisberg. Your reader today is billed an Arsenal. We
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will begin with the addition dated October fifteen, twenty twenty five,
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which the publishers have donated to RADIOI as a reminder.
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RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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read printed material. The first item is a photograph captioned
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You're Never too Old to Learn. Towncil Ray Booger Haynes
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of Carcasson is learning to play the fiddle as part
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of the Pick and Bow program at Carcasson Community Center.
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The program, also known as Passing the Pick and Bow,
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is sponsored by the Cawan Community Action Group, Apple Shop
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and the Hyman Settlement School with the goal of keeping
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traditional Appalachian music alive. Classic which are free of charge
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and include a meal, are held every Wednesday from six
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pm until eight pm at the Carcassast Community Center. New
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students of any age are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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The next headline is man charged with murder in the
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shooting of kidnapper, a Park Creek man who dodged indictment
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for killing his alleged kidnapper in May of twenty twenty three,
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has now been indicted for murder in the same case.
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Speaker 2: Ethan S. Brown twenty one of five eighty.
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Speaker 1: Two part Creek is charged with murder in the May sixth,
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twenty twenty three death of Nolan Nagli in a car
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on Kentucky fifteen business overlooking the Wisburg Middle School football field.
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Speaker 2: The fatal shooting.
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Speaker 1: Occurred about ten twenty a m On a Saturday, after
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what police alleged was a three day drug fuel to
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get together three miles outside of town at Sandlich turned hostile.
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Watchburg Police Chief Tyrone Fields said at the time that
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it appeared that what started as three days of using
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marijuana and Metham Fetterman at a home occupied by Nolan
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Nagel in nineteen and his girlfriend, turned into an argument
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and then possibly a hostage situation, and eventually ended with
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Nagel's death. All this started on Saturday after nine am,
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when Brown's mother called the police and stated her son
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had told her he was being held hostage and needed
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one thousand, five hundred dollars in exchange for his life,
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that he was going to be killed. Field said then
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there was some other phone calls made and the price
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went up to two thousand, five hundred dollars. But while
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a grand jury in twenty twenty three returned a no
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true bill on Brown, when the late Edison Banks was
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com Wells attorney, current Commonwealth's Attorney Matt Butler said he
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thought a second look was warranted. If that scenario was
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really happening the way he said it was, he would
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have a self defense case. I'm just skeptical, Butler said.
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Brown told police that he and Nagel were supposed to
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meet Brown's parents at a gas station in Whitesburg to
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get the money he said Nagally demanded. But Field said
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Brown was talking to his mother on the phone as
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they came into town and learned she was sitting in
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a car at the entrance to the Whitsburg Housing Authority.
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The driver refused to stop and went on by. Field
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said Officer Garner was sitting at the entrance to Park
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Street when Garner attempted to pull over the vehicle. He
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saw the car swerve, hit the ditch on the left
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side of the road and then spin out into the
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guardrail on the right. When Garner ordered the men out,
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of the car. Brown stepped out, but Nagel appeared to
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be struggling. When Garner approached the car, he said he
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saw Nagel was bleeding heavily from his shoulder. Lectro County
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Coroner Perry Fowler said a single nine millimeter bullet passed
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through Nagle's right shoulder and into his chest. An ambulance
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took Nagel to Whitsburg arh Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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According to the citation issued by police, Brown told Fields
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that Nagel had accused him of stealing two thousand, five
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hundred dollars and had shot at him several times, pistol
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whipped him and held him hostage. Brown claimed that when
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they saw the police car waiting for them at Park Street,
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Nagel tossed him the gun and told him he would
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blame everything on Brown. Fields said at the time that
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he is still trying to determine how much of the
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story Brown told him is true, but a grand jury
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apparently believed Brown and declined to indict him. Then, I
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do know that officers responded to the house on sand Lick.
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They did recover shell casings, They did observe holes in
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the couch, and they did observe blood at the initial scene.
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Fields said, then we interviewed a neighbor who reported hearing
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gunfire at seven a m. And hearing a female screaming
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for help. He said the neighbor did not call police
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because it was normal behavior at the house. Brown is
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no stranger to the Letcher County courts. He had already
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slipped out from felony charges twice before the shooting. His
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first arrest as an adult came about March eleventh, twenty
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twenty two, three weeks after his eighteenth birthday, when he
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was charged with first degree malicious mischief. A grand jury
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returned a no true bill after the witness failed to appear.
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He was charged later with the third degree assault on
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a corrections officer after an incident involving a deputy jailer.
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That deputy jailer, who was no longer employed at the
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jail when the grand jury met in July of that year,
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also failed to appear, and again the charges were dropped.
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Brown was sentenced to five years probation in early September
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twenty twenty four after he pleaded guilty to third degree escape,
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tampering with a prisoner monitoring device and theft by unlawful
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taking of property worth more than one thousand dollars and
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less than ten thousand dollars. In the next story, couple
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who were found passed out at school indicted. A couple
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arrested after allegedly passing out in their car at Letcher
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County Central High School have been indicted on drug trafficking
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and other charges. Weischburg Police say they were dispatched September
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twenty fourth by nine one one to the High School
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Hill at Ermine as school was releasing for the day
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after a witness leaving the hill spotted two people passed
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out in a car in the opposite lane. Police save
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when they arrived, they found a nurse and other individuals
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tending to Jennifer Watts until an ambulance could arrive. According
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to a citation written by Patrolman Seth Whittaker, the driver
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of the car, Andrew James Smith, showed signs of impairment.
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His eyes were pinpoint, he was slurring, balanced problems and
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used the vehicle for balance, and he had residue inside
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of his nostril that was white in color. The citation
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says that Smith failed a field sobriety test and refused
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other tests. He was arrested and police searched his vehicle.
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According to the citation, they found a white substance believed
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to be methamphetamine, another substance believed to be liquid THHC dabs,
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a green substance believed to be marijuana, various pills in
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improper containers or no container, more pill bottles with other
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person's names on them, and two pistols. Police also said
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the vehicle had a soft drink bottle inside that had
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some type of suspicious residue on it. On Thursday, a
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grand jury indicted Smith forty one of Elk Creek on
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charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol,
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first degree trafficking, and a controlled substance, first offense, two
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grams or more of methamphetamine, trafficking in synthetic drugs first defense,
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possession of marijuana prescription drugs not in the proper container,
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first offense, and trafficking in legend drugs first defense. Watts
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forty two of ninety nine Chapman Hill, Hazard was indicted
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on charges of public intoxication, controlled substance, complicity to first
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degree trafficking, and a control substance First offense two grams
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or more of methamphetamine, complicity to trafficking in synthetic drugs
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first defense, complicity to possession of marijuana, complicity to prescription
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drugs not in the proper container, and complicity to trafficking
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in legend drugs first defense. Seven other people are also
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charged in indictments the Electra County Grand Jury handed up
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last week to Circuit Judge James W. Craft the second.
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They are Robbie Dale Collins twenty nine nineteen number one
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Bottom Jenkins, who is charged in three indictments. In one indictment,
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he is charged with first degree assault when he caused
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serious physical injury to Sheldon Yachts with a deadly weapon
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or dangerous instrument, and being a first degree persistent felony offender.
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Kentucky State Trooper Chase Lucas testified in the case. In
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another indictment, Collins is charged with first degree possession of
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a controlled substance second defense methamphetamine. Kentucky State Trooper Jarrett
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Fields testified in the case. In a third indictment, Collins
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is charged with flagrant non support of his minor children
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and being a first degree persistent felony offender. Kimberly Miles
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of the Letcher County Division of Child Support Enforcement testified
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in the case Jennifer Cantrell, forty one, who is charged
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with theft by unlawful taking or disposition when Cantrell took
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a check book belonging to Angel Gent with the intent
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of depriving her of eighty three hundred thirty nine dollars
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and ninety eight cents, and third degree forgery. Chief Deputy
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Mike Dingis Letcher County Sheriff's Office and angel Gent testified
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in the case Miranda Page Fuller twenty two for eighty
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nine Norman Hollow Road, Apartment three, twenty eight hazard, who
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is charged with theft by deception, including cold checks of
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ten thousand dollars or more, when Fuller obtained a vehicle
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from Tim Short Auto in Wisburg and intentionally issued or
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passed at check knowing it would not be honored by
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the drawe Weichburg Police Officer Seth Whittaker testified in the
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case Nathan Hurley twenty two one eighty Harrison Branch, who
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is charged with retaligating against a participant in a legal
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process and second degree assault when Hurley caused injury to
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Jonathan McLain by means of a deadly weapon. Kentucky State
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Trooper Charles Moore testified in the case Joshua Lee Pike
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forty four, nineteen o nine Millstone Road, Millstone, who is
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charged with tampering with physical evidence when he offered physical
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evidence knowing it to be fabricated or altered by a
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timpting to alter the results of a drug screen, and
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being a first degree persistent felony offender. Probation and Parole
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Officer Jenna Caudle testified in the case Chase Sellers twenty
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one seventy one Deer Run Drive Partridge, who is charged
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with first degree possession of a controlled substance first offense
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Metham Fetterman by possessed drug paraphidelia. Kentucky State Trooper Jarrett
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Fields testified in the case Jennifer Jones forty one eight
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seven three six Highway five eighty two, Pine Top, who
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is charged with first degree bail jumping when she failed
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to appear for a pre trial conference in Lecter Circuit Court.
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Sandra Wright, Deputy Clerk Letro Circuit Clerk's.
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Speaker 2: Office, testified in the case.
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Speaker 1: And Tiffany Johnson twenty seven forty seven, Happy Hollow Jenkins,
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who is charged with first degree bail jumping when she
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failed to appear for a pre trial conference in Letcher
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Circuit Court. Sandra Wright, Deputy Clerk Letcher Circuit Clerk's office,
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testified in the case. The next story is Cougar's roll
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past Hornets improved to two and one in district. Letcher
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County Central improved to five and three after a dominant
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seventy one to twenty eight victory over mcgoffin County this
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past Friday night. The win, which improved LCC's record to
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two and one in district play, was led by the
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Cougar's offensive line, which dominated Magoffin County while paving the
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way to three hundred and thirty one yards of rushing
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for the game, Garrett Howard rushed for a career high
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two hundred and sixty nine yards on just fifteen carries.
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The Cougars will face another Class three a District eight
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opponent this Friday when they host Powell County at Ermine
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Kickoffice Set for seven. The Pirates will come into the
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game with a one loss record of three to four
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after falling to district leading Lawrence County forty three to
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seven in the game against Macgoffin County, LCC received the
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opening kickoff and quickly moved downfield and scored on an
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eighteen yard touchdown run by running back Brett Storgel. Emma
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Adams made the extra point to give the Cougars an
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early seven to nothing lead. Magoffin's first drive was stopped
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when the tackle for loss by defensive lineman Canaan's Sergeant
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forced a punt that was downed at the LCC seven
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yard line. Colton Stidham caught a twenty two yard pass
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to get the Cougar's second drive started. On the next play,
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quarterback Gunner Holbrook threw a swing pass to Storgel for
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a twelve yard game. Garrett Howard then took a hand
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off up the middle for an eighteen yard game that
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soon un led to a five yard rushing touchdown by Howard.
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The extra point snap was dropped, keeping the score at
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thirteen to nothing. Magothin County's offense didn't get a chance
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to take the field on what would have been their
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second drive after Rider Day recovered a muffed kickoff to
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give the ball right back to the LCC offense. The
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Cougars wasted little time capitalizing on that mistake with an
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eight yard touchdown pass from Holbrook to Sturgel. Howard ran
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in the two point conversion to increase LCC's lead to
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twenty one to nothing. With one thirty nine left in
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the first quarter. Magoffin County's offense got going on their
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third possession, answering the Cougar's score with an eighteen yard
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touchdown pass to receiver Dayson Burgett. The Hornets also scored
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on two point conversion to cut LCC's lead to twenty
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one to eight. Early in the second quarter. The Hornets
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followed their scoring drive with an onside kick that failed
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and was recovered by LCC at midfield. On the Cougar's
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first offensive play, Mason Stevens made a leaping grab of
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a pass from Holbrook and raced away from the defenders
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for a fifty three yard touchdown. The extra points split
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the uprights to make the score twenty eight to eight.
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With mcgoffin County's offense back in possession of the ball,
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Jason Birchett caught a screen pass and broke two tackles
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on his way to a thirty seven yard touchdown. Burchett
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also caught a two point conversion to trim LCC's lead
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to twenty eight to sixteen. On the first play of
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the subsequent drive, l CC's Holebrook was hit from his
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blind side, resulting in a fumble that was recovered by
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mcgoffin County. Elcc's Canaan's Sergeant then made a game changing
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play when he recovered a fumble to give the ball
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back to the Cougar's offense. Howard, the senior running back,
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had runs of eleven and twenty two yards to start
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the drive. Sturgel then scored his third touchdown of the game,
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this time on a fifteen yard run. The Adams extra
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point expanded LCC's lead to thirty five to sixteen with
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six thirty six left in the second quarter. Refusing to quit,
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mcgoffin County answered with a sustained drive, punching in a
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two yard touchdown run just before halftime to make the
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score thirty five to twenty two at the break. It
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was another good district win. LCC coach Junior Matthews would
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say later, the defense wasn't very good in the first half,
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but got better in the second half.
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Speaker 2: We ran the ball well and gone her through it well.
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Speaker 1: An example of the improved LCC defense came early in
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the second half when defense back Theadan Brown made a
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leaping catch for an interception and returned the ball into
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Magoffin County territory. To start the third quarter, Howard capitalized
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on the great field position with a ten yard touchdown run.
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Another successful Adams kick for the extra point increased LCC's
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lead to forty two to twenty two. After the much
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improved LCC defense forced the Hornets into three and out,
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Howard went to work again, this time using a vicious
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stiff arm to throw a defender to the ground and
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break away for a fifty one yard touchdown. The extra
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point kicked by Adams gave the Cougars a forty nine
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to twenty two lead. After that scoring drive, both teams
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turned the ball over on downs, Still showing grint and determination,
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The Hornets scored on a five yard touchdown run by
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Blake Wireman. The conversion attempt failed, leaving the score at
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forty nine to twenty eight with fifteen seconds remaining in
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the third quarter. L c C s Howard followed the
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Magoffin score by taking the game over yet again, this
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time on runs of fourteen and nineteen yards before breaking
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free for a twenty yard touchdown run. Holbrook ran in
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the two point conversion to increase the Cougar's lead to
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fifty seven to twenty eight. The next item is gathering
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at College Stirr's discussion. The caption of one photograph is
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retired community college professor Madeleine Flannery addressed a crowd gathered
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Tuesday at the Wisburg campus of Southeast Community and Technical
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College for an open forum hosted by the college's new president,
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doctor Andrea Lee Harrison, who recently completed her.
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Speaker 2: One hundredth day on the job.
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Speaker 1: Flannery addressed the need for change in online instruction, telling
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those gathered that some students only see their professors only
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twice during the year, at the beginning of the semester
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and at the end when the grades come out. She
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believes such classes offer little educational value and waste taxpayer dollars.
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Another photo, the caption reads Southeast Community and Technical College's
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new president, Doctor Andrea Lee Harrison, took questions and comments
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from a gathering that included healthcare workers, small and regional businesses, politicians, clergy, educators,
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and members of the general public. Several spoke on issues
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they are passionate about. The next story is Garnie Norman,
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well known writer and poet, dies at eighty eight. Attended
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school here. Gurnie Norman, former poet, Laureate of Kentucky, novelist, humorist, professor,
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and Stuart Robinson's School alumnus.
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Speaker 2: Has died. He was eighty eight.
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Speaker 1: Naoka Hawkins, whom he married twenty nine years ago, announced
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his death Monday. Gurney has died Yesterday's Sunday, October twelfth,
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around four pm. For some time now, but acutely for
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the past four months, Gurney faced multiple health challenges. He
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thought valiantly. He loved his life, and he wanted to live.
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Gurney had a heroic will. But Jesus called him home
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yesterday and he went peacefully, no pain, no struggle, Hawkins wrote.
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Norman was born in Grundy, Virginia, in nineteen thirty seven
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and grew up near Hazard. He attended Stuart Robinson's School
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at Leisure from nineteen forty six to nineteen fifty five
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and often attended reunions there. He was graduated from the
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University of Kentucky with degrees in journalism and English in
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nineteen fifty five, and in nineteen sixty he received a
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Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where
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he studied with literary critic Malcolm Calley and the Irish
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short story writer Frank O'Connor. He served for two years
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in the U. S. Army and returned to Eastern Kentucky
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in nineteen sixty three to work as reporter at the
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Hazard Herald. Perhaps his best known work was a serialized
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novel first published in nineteen seventy one in the Last
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Whole Earth Catalog, meant to be a vehicle for advertising
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products sold in the catalog. Divine Rights Trip chronicles the
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fictional travels of hippie Divine Right and his girlfriend Estelle
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as they wander across the country in a VW Bus
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and eventually end up at his home in Eastern Kentucky. There,
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he resumes his birth identity as David Ray Davenport. As
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a strip mind threatens his family cemetery, he and Stelle
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mary and remain in the mountains. Norman was also known
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for Kinfolks the Wilgas Stories, three of which were made
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into short films by director Andy Garrison. Ned Beatty starred
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in the first film, Fat Monroe. Gurney's spirit was so vast,
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so powerful and affirming. He will never leave us, Hawkins
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said in her announcement of his death. We have his words,
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his stories, and his books, the gift of his brilliant
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and graceful writing, but his presence in the world, his essence,
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his being, was so much larger than books. He was
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a force of generous, irresistible love that a hundred books
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could never contain. I feel him here with me now
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as I write this, urging me on with those amazing
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blue eyes and powerful smile. Norman and Hawkins were friends
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and colleagues for.
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Speaker 2: Forty years before they married. Hawkins said that later this fall.
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Speaker 1: Or around Christmas, there will be a memorial and celebration
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of Gurney's life. The next headline is black long Victims.
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We've been cast aside to die. When coal miners came
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to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at
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the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him
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for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry. But on Tuesday,
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dozens of miners and their families will be in a
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more unusual position, protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor
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Department building, arguing it has failed to protect them from
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black lung disease, an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal
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and silica dust. They have been waiting months for the
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government to enforce federal limits on silica dust, a carcinogen
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that has led to a recent spike in the disease,
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but mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
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and the Trump administration has paused enforcement while the lawsuit
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plays out. Labor unions, Democrats, and a growing number of
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miners accused the Trump administration of ignoring workers while using
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hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies to bolster
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the companies that operate coal plants and mining operations. The
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companies might be getting a hand out, but the miners
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ain't getting none, said Gary Harston, seventy one, a retired
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coal miner from West Virginia who is the president of
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the National Black Lung Association. Mister Harston has been living
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with black lung disease since he was in his forties.
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Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement
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that President Trump cares deeply about unleashing America's energy potential,
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as well as standing up for those who fuel our country,
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like coal miners. Blue collar a maa Ericans played a
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key role in sending President Trump back to the White
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House because they know he has their back, she said,
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adding that he is working tirelessly to deliver policies that
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improve the livelihoods of working families across the nation. Mss
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Kelly did not say whether the administration plans to revise
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or repeal the silica dust regulation. The federal government has
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recognized the health threats that coal dust poses since nineteen
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sixty nine, when Congress passed the Federal Coal Mine Health
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and Safety Act, which set health and safety standards for
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coal mining and required federal inspections and monitoring for black
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lung disease. But now, after decades of improvements, the disease
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has made a disturbing resurgence, particularly among younger workers, because
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of their exposure to a different material, silica dust. Experts
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said that is in part because of changing mining practices.
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Most of the thick coal seams in places like Appalachia
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have already been mined, and workers are increasingly cutting through
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more rock to reach coal, exposing them to silica dust,
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composed of tiny crystals that can lodge in lung tissue.
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Silica dust can cause inflammation and scarring when inhaled. It
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is considered about twenty times more toxic to the lungs
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than coal dust, and can also cause lung cancer and
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kidney disease. The Biden administration set limits on miner's exposure
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to the silica dust that mirrored federal regulations covering construction
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and other industries in which workers are exposed to the dust.
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It also required mine operators to take immediate corrective action
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if exposures exceeded the limit. The administration estimated the rule
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would prevent at least one thousand, sixty seven deaths and
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three thousand, seven hundred forty six cases of black lung.
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Limits on silica exposure were supposed to take effect in April,
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but the National Sandstone and Gravel Association, the National Mining Association,
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and other industry groups asked a federal appeals court to
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block the rule, citing the cost to mine operators. The
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Trump administration did not defend the rule in court. Instead,
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it agreed to delay enforcement and has since petitioned the
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court to prevent labor unions and a lung health association
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from intervening in the case. This month, it asked for
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another court delay, citing the government shutdown. This concludes the
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