Whitley County

Tom Eblen's guest has drawn on her own experiences as a doctor to craft a novel around generational mental illness, discrimination, and family secrets.

Erin Miller-Reed is a writer from Whitley County in southeastern Kentucky.

She also is a physician with a master's degree in public health and a medical doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky.

Earlier this year, she completed a two and a half year program at Columbia University and received a certificate in narrative medicine.

Johnson died on October 1st, 29 years to the day after he was sentenced for a deadly stabbing and sexual assault in Floyd County.

An inmate from the Whitley County Detention Center is back in custody after escaping with the help of other inmates.

42 year old Charles Blake Randall of Springfield, Kentucky, escaped from the detention center late Sunday night after three inmates caught a door that was opened by a deputy jailer.

randall and two other inmates went to the control room of the jail and attacked deputy jailers that includes one deputy jailer who was hit in the head with a mop bucket and another stabbed with a pencil they were treated at a hospital and later released randall was located and taken into custody by kentucky state police troopers the following night he's charged with one count of first degree escape and three counts of first-degree attempted murder, among other charges.

I grew up in Southeastern Kentucky.

I grew up in a place called Whitley County, where my dad's side of the family has been for, I think, over two hundred years.

Um, I know I was the seventh generation to be born in that county.

I was working in Hazard, Kentucky, for a local community foundation, so, you know, would stop in and see folks, and everybody was playing different roles.

But for the most part right now, we're looking good.

Now, north of us in Bell, Harlan, Knox County, Laurel County, Whitley County, Kentucky, they're under a flash flood watch.

Also, Lee County, Virginia, as I said, going up into Virginia, all of that.

So they're into that.