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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WSAZ) -- This is a child abuse case that a police department says is the worst it has ever seen. The reports include young children locked up, covered in blisters and rashes and filth. Click here to find out more! The story comes from Prestonsburg, Ky., where the good news is five kids are on the road to recovery. Their maternal grandmother says just getting the little ones treated and cleaned up and in a healthy environment is working wonders. Police say if being smothered in filth wasn't bad enough, pain pills were lying around the apartment like...

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. -- A disagreement over the war in Iraq between two friends ended with the fatal shooting of one of the men. Prosecutors and Kentucky State Police determined that Douglas Moore, 65, of Martin, acted in self-defense. Police did not arrest Moore after the shooting at the Bull Creek Trade Center near Prestonsburg Thursday morning. The victim, Harold W. Smith, 56, of Manchester, and Moore were friends who each had booths at the center. Smith was shot once in the chest and died at the scene. They began arguing over the war, said Floyd County Coroner Roger Nelson. "I...

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<p>PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Attorney General Ben Chandler has promised that if elected governor, he'll "fast track" the upgrading of the two-lane section of the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway, making its conversion to four lanes his top road priority.</p> <p>Chandler's Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher, responded in an interview yesterday that he will "do everything we can to get that done as quickly as we can" but said Chandler is "reaching awful far on a lot of campaign promises."</p>