Breathitt County

2026

• Jackson’s Most Called Number

2025

• Fire Destroys Riverside Dorm
• A Christmas Lynching
• Wife Shoots Husband – Murder or Suicide?
• The Red Masque Murder Hoax
• The Alpine Restaurant
• Xavier 132 – Lees 0
• The Family Diner
• “Bad Bill’s” Homecoming
• The 1110 Dip

2024

• Santa Vistis Breathitt’s “Mystery Boy”
• Wreck Killed Five from Breathitt
• Breathitt First Modern Deer Hunt
• Cornwallis Irvine Pugh
• The End of Cood
• Sampson Moore
• The TeePee Burger
• White Vans and the 1988 Panic
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1993
• Vice Presidential Nominee Visits Jackson
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1992
• Vancleve Plane Crash Killed Six
• Breathitt Man Died June 22
• Jackson Mortician Led State Embalmers
• The Jaxon Theatre
• Happy Birthday, Sonny!
• Prominent Citizen Died on May 31
• Breathitt County’s Vietnam Casualties
• Feudist’s Catfish Killing
• Heart Attack Claimed Ervine Turner
• Price Hounshell Died May 1
• Sawdust & Baseball: Whick, Kentucky
• Jackson’s 1918 Eclipse
• Dr. Dickey Eulogized a Jackson Matriarch
• Money, Marriage, and Dynamite
• Two Killed in Sewer Accident
• Breathitt’s Oldest Vet Dies
• Siblings Die In Vancleve Fire
• The Cut-Through’s First Test- the Flood of 1957
• Quicksand’s Strong Woman
• Jeremiah Plummer
• Fifty Years of Football- The Holcomb Era – 1991
• Jackson’s Burger Queen

2023

• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1990
• Christmas Tragedy – 1947
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1989
• Elisha Clay – 6th Kentucky Cavalry
• Jackson’s First Black Policeman
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1988
• For What Are You Thankful?
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1987
• State Troops Protect Breathitt’s Election
• The Breathitt Coliseum
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1986
• A Former Slave Tells His Story
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1985
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1984
• Fifty Years of Football: The Holcomb Era – 1983
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1982
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1981
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1980
• The Ride
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1979
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1978
• Guerrant Memorial Presbyterian Church
• Fifty Years of Football: The Hilton Era – 1977
• Sid Jett Died August 14
• Fifty Years Of Football: The Hilton Era – 1976
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Ten – Super Fans
• Mayors of the City of Jackson
• Mollie’s Wait
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Nine – Under The Lights
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Eight – The New Coach
• Watch East Kentucky Grow
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Seven – Changes
• Breathitt County’s Korean War Dead
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Six – The Field
• A Document Written In Blood
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Five – The First Season
• Breathitt County Sheriffs
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Four – The Spring Team
• Breathitt’s Future – Pickles
• Fifty Years of Football: Part Three – The Coach
• Last Train to Jackson
• Our Most Shameful Hour
• Fifty Years Of Football: Part Two – The Committee
• Fifty Years Of Football: Part One – The Beginning
• Honors to the Honorable
• Spitting Ordinance Is Still The Law
• BHS Graduates 39 in 1938
• Breathitt’s Historic Markers
• Who Killed Foch?
• Kin A Feller Get Some Holp?
• Breathitt Boy Taken in NFL Draft
• O. H. Napier: The Man and the Myth
• Faith Conquers Mud
• Breathitt’s First Modern Turkey Hunt
• Quicksand’s Stone Woman
• Hargis Commercial Bank
• Stephen Landrum Died On April 8
• Courthouse Loafers Beware
• Mrs. Hargis Died at 64
• Dalton Was State Chicken Champion
• Buddie Spicer Died in March 1945
• Remembering Breathitt’s Sheriff
• Snake Valley
• One Family’s Pain
• Jackson’s “Doc” Hoge
• Breathitt Had 2,648 Outhouses in 1960
• Illness Fatal To Pioneer Citizen
• Murder On Old Buck
• Slate Fall Kills Neddie Herald
• Abijah B. Eversole
• Funeral for Eliza Clemons
• Our Duty As Citizens
• Dr. Dickey Survives Coup
• Hollan Family’s Unusual Record
• Jackson’s Forgotten Flood
• Where is the Snake?
• The Panbowl
• The Death of James Cockrell
• Corner Lunch Burned
• The Marcum Family
• Constable Killed, Shooter Executed
• Goodyear Blimp Crashes on Breathitt-Wolfe Line
• Jackson’s L&N Water Tower
• Fowl Stories from 1954
• Deputy Clemons Emptied Gun Before Dying
• Oil Found in Breathitt
• New Year’s Eve Dance Turns Deadly

2022

• Mountains Changed Young Missionary
• Touch Men With Soft Hearts
• Tragic Young Love Leads To Murder
• Christmas Without Ashford
• Breathitt’s Christmas Early Customs
• Emily Crain Williams
• Christmas Shopping In Jackson
• Gone Are The Mules
• A Breathitt County Curiosity
• Enemies To The End- And Beyond
• Jackson’s First Helicopter Visit
• Times Editor Killed in Crash
• Two Breathitt County Thanksgiving- 1947 & 1951
• UFO Zaps Jackson Scout
• Essentials of Life: Wheat, Flax, and Ginseng
• Jackson’s Fogottern Dentist
• Three Months of Booms
• The Cardwell Family
• What Lumber Brought Us
• S. P. Lees Collegiate Institute
• A Special Request
• Breathitt’s Squirrel Plague
• Family Dispute Ended in Tragedy
• Tragic Death At Quicksand
• Granville Turner’s “Suicide” in 1911
• James Hargis, the Victim?
• The Hero of 1923
• The Breathitt County International Speedway
• The Militia Invades Jackson
• Store Shootout Kills One
• Dave Collier Remembered
• A Look At Breathitt’s First Industry
• An Outsider’s Look at Jackson in 1939
• What’s in the Time Capsule?
• Summer Ginsenger Finds Body
• The Cult of Jeremiah
• Jackson’s Federal Building
• Did He Find Her?
• The Mystery of Flint Ridge
• Independence Greetings
• A New Summer Holiday Tradition?
• What Did Green Trimble Say About Your Grandpa?
• An Accident Claimed Garfield Francis
• Jackson’s First Legal Saloon
• Murder on Puncheon Creek
• Where is the Haddix Bell?
• Breathitt Memorial Preserved in 1940
• Breathitt’s First Documented UFO
• Breathitt County Teachers in 1940
• Brother Kills Brother in 1892
• Calliker Killed At Little
• Breathitt County’s Chupacabra
• Jackson’s “Mother” Died in 1938
• Who Wants Hay?
• The Frozen Inn- A Bloody Place
• Happy Birthday, Breathitt County!
• Remodeling the Jail – 1879
• Squealers Gonna’ Squeal
• Breathitt’s Demon Dog
• Breathitt Hog Featured in Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not”
• When Love Killed A Man
• Breathitt Slave Whipped for Theft
• Jackson Opposed the County’s “Crossing Tax”
• Was it Charles Miller? We May Never Know
• Remembering Dr. Gardner
• The Hotel Jefferson
• Killing “Bad John” Akemon
• Beware of Lewd Women at the Courthouse!
• Was Phoebe Banks Really 107?
• Bach Become Kentucky First Blind Senator
• Crockettsville Man Served as Adjutant General
• No Insurance Policy for John J. C. Bach
• Jackson’s Black “Klansman”
• No Sunday Haircuts Allowed
• Breathitt County Judge Executives
• Are You Headed to the Poor House?
• Jackson’s Forgotten Baseball Star
• Where is Curtis’ Pistol?
• The Great Udder Debate
• The Collapse of the Panbowl Bridge
• Porter Sentenced to Life
• The Danger of Grandma’s Dress

2021

• When A Tapeworm Loves Whisky
• Alligators in the North Fork
• Exploding Dolls Hit Jackson

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