Attorney Kathryn Burke - Celebrity of the Week
Mountain Santa helps bring joy in Appalachia
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Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks
By BY CLAIRE GALOFARO - Associated Press MINNIE, Ky. (AP) — Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all. She thought of the disconnect notices, ...
AppalReD hosts divorce workshop
By Andrea Saddler - asaddler@civitasmedia.com PRESTONSBURG – In the United States, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That’s nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces each week and 876,000 divorces a year. Many individuals w...
AppalReD Hosts Notre Dame Law Students
Notre Dame Law Students are using their Fall Break to assist AppalReD with research and a pro se Divorce Clinic (do-it-yourself Divorce Clinic to assist low-income people secure an uncontested divorce without using a lawyer) which will be held on hel...
Prestonsburg man wins prestigious award
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - John Rosenberg has many awards hanging on his walls, and two weeks ago he received another one. Rosenberg, who lives in Prestonsburg, was honored at the Fourth Annual Muhammad Ali awards. He received the Kentucky Hu...
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Rosenberg to Receive Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award
John Rosenberg, who is the founding director of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, will receive the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award during the fourth annual awards ceremony in Louisville on September 17th.
Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia’s Future
To offset lost mining jobs, officials, business leaders and environmentalists are setting aside political feuds to try to create an entrepreneurial economy. By SHERYL GAY STOLBERGAUG. 17, 2016 PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Here in the heart of ce...
2016 Pro Bono Publico Award Recipient: John O. Goss
John O. Goss, a legal aid lawyer some 40 years ago, responded to a nationwide call to help some 1,500 Social Security disability recipients in rural Appalachian high-poverty counties in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. The recipients were in dange...