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The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start…
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West Virginia employees of coal operator Blackjewel LLC have received their final paychecks more thaThe Burgess family received Greg’s owed wages late last week, but is still waiting for the check to clear a bank hold. Blackjewel’s bad check created a…
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Curtis Cress at in the gravel beside a railroad track in Harlan County, Kentucky. Tall and thin with a long, black beard, Cress is every bit a coal miner,…
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Miners left unpaid by the bankrupt Blackjewel coal company say they are prepared to keep up their protest on railroad tracks in Harlan County, Kentucky,…
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The board of Jefferson County Public Schools has unanimously passed a resolution that asks Kentucky Commissioner of Education Wayne Lewis to withdraw his…
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State CapitolMembers of a legislative budget subcommittee got a status report on teacher training Thursday. Officials representing elementary, secondary and…
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Representatives from a number of federal government agencies staged a protest Wednesday at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Lexington office.They…