Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 19—MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — A Lawrence County judge recently sentenced a Mount Vernon man to prison time on convictions for ...

A rash of sensational crimes in the past year have jolted Nevada County awake to the ravages of methamphetamine. But the raid of an alleged meth lab this week also has drawn attention to the danger ...

With Ron Rash’s latest and sixth novel, “Above the Waterfall,” I felt a thrill when he mentioned, as he did in his 2012 novel, “The Cove,” the parakeets that once nested in the mountains of Appalachia ...

Officials here will assemble public safety, social service and health care representatives for a summit to address a rash of methamphetamine lab fires that have led to serious injuries and two deaths.

“Above the Waterfall” by Ron Rash (Ecco): Few are better than Rash at portraying the landscape and people of Appalachia. In this contemporary story, a sheriff and park ranger are drawn together, but ...