The poverty rates in nine Eastern Kentucky counties were among the 30 highest in the nation in 2016, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The rate in Owsley County was third-highest in ...

It was re-accredited anyway "We have poverty. We, like all communities, have drug addiction," said Cale Turner, county-judge executive of Owsley County in Eastern Kentucky, which posted the state ...

Booneville, Kentucky – Small clouds of ... More than 45 percent of Owsley county’s population lives below the poverty line, including 56.3 percent of children and more than a third of ...

Like Owsley, Knott is a relatively poor place in the Eastern Kentucky coalfield ... Nearly 38 percent of her county's residents live in poverty. But that just makes a first-rate library even ...

Districts like Owsley County rely heavily ... with 94% living below the federal poverty line. Additionally, 22% had disabilities. Statewide, about 60% of Kentucky public students were impoverished ...

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A drop in federal food assistance has struck Owsley County, in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, hard. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan) ...

An eastern Kentucky man won big on a Kentucky Lottery scratch-off ticket, big as in $3,000,000.The winner, a man from Owsley County who wishes to remain anonymous, stopped at the Booneville ...