Their lives strengthened Kentucky and its people. They did when it wasn’t easy for women to take leadership roles. All born before 1925, Dr. Grace Marilynn James, Verna Mae Slone and Lillian Henken Press changed their state and made others’ lives better.
The Kentucky Heart Foundation has announced the winners of its “Why I love my heart” poster and essay contests in celebration of American Heart Month.
Bill Nighbert, the former secretary of the Transportation Cabinet who was tried — and acquitted — on charges of bid-rigging, is again advising Senate Republicans on transportation matters.
The Flatwoods City Council on Tuesday gave tentative approval to new franchise agreements with the city’s two television cable providers.
Security system upgrades are on the way to the Boyd County Detention Center.
The chairman of the Senate budget committee said Tuesday cuts are possible to elementary and secondary education as the Senate makes changes to the House budget which cuts two days from the school calendar but maintains the basic school funding formula, SEEK.
With NCAA Tournament championship dreams in high gear, UK basketball fans aren’t afraid to spend their green for anything blue and white.
When elected officials in Boyd County said they didn’t see the value of a new weather station, Lawrence County Fiscal Court members were quite happy to find a place for it in their own back yard.
Boyd County’s emergency ambulances rolled on nearly 8,000 calls in 2009, a third more than would be expected given the population density, according to the director of the service.
Dr. Grace Marilynn James, Lillian Henken Press, and Verna Mae Slone are the newest inductees into the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit and their portraits - which will hang in the capitol - were unveiled in the rotunda Tuesday.
The Senate budget committee began reviewing the House budget plan Tuesday and it was clear Senators are reluctant to cut school days to save money although the chairman said schools might not be spared funding cuts.
Bill Nighbert, the former Transportation Cabinet Secretary who was acquitted of bid rigging charges in January is working again in the office of Senate President David Williams advising the Senate on the road plan.
People who live on Bow Branch delivered a simple message to Lawrence County’s fiscal court Monday regarding a proposed shelter for women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.
A Johnson County attorney owes the federal government more than $1.3 million in unpaid taxes, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Ashland.
A man suspected of shooting three people — one fatally — early Monday morning was apprehended approximately 14 hours later.
When East Carter’s basketball team returned from the 16th Region championship game victorious last Monday, sirens sounded, fire trucks blared and church bells rang.
A few area students placed on the podium last weekend at the state Governor’s Cup championship in Louisville.
School officials leaned on ceremonial shovels at Campbell Elementary on Monday to mark the start of a renovation project that will refurbish the interior and add several new classrooms to the school.
A court hearing on a motion filed by convicted murderer Timothy Scott Simpson that had been scheduled to take place Monday was postponed until next month.
A man suspected of shooting three people — one fatally — early Monday morning was apprehended approximately 14 hours later.
One year after being in the college basketball purgatory known as the NIT, Kentucky is back on top.
Work is visibly progressing on the former Sears building downtown and city officials are confident its owners will complete the restoration they agreed to last year.
Bluegrass and gospel legend Ricky Skaggs has been signed to perform in his hometown during the 2010 Lawrence County Septemberfest celebration in Louisa.
Those looking for a place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day will find a warm welcome in Ashland on Wednesday as Chimney Corner Cafe and Ashland Main Street combine resources to bring people together for a holiday lunch and dinner showcase of the community.
Officials from Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital’s Meals on Wheels program have announced the program has been awarded a $11,250 grant from the Walmart Foundation to fight senior hunger.
If Dawn Fleming’s gift shop were mistaken for her home, it would be understandable, and it would be all right with her.
The 4th annual Rivertown Review, an evening of winter guard and dance performance, will focus on domestic violence prevention.
The crash was simulated but much of the misery was not.
An agreement four years in the making has led to work at the former Cooksey Brothers Landfill, which regulators say will reduce pollution and end a long-standing fire hazard at the site.
Monday morning’s meeting of the Lawrence County Fiscal Court is expected to include heated debate and discussion about a proposed drug addiction recovery shelter for women.
Have something you no longer want but don’t want to throw it away?
After weeks of hand-wringing, floating trial balloons and rhetoric, the House last week passed and sent to the Senate a $17.5 billion two year budget filled with bonded projects and containing two controversial changes to some business taxes — and Kentucky opened play in the SEC Basketball Tournament.
Twenty months after an accident took the life of Russell “Rusty” Bellomy, his legacy lives on.
Two men convicted in the 2007 killings of more than 100 endangered Indiana bats at Carter Caves State Resort Park will be sentenced on Wednesday.
A convicted murderer will be back in court on Monday morning attempting to have his conviction and life sentence set aside.
The House passed a $17.5 billion two year budget and a new road plan but they're likely to face changes in the Senate as the 2010 General Assembly approaches the end of its calendar.
ELLIS COLUMN:
For all the rhetoric and bombast about the state budget, much of the debate is more about elections and the real budget won't emerge until a few powerful lawmakers go behind closed doors at the end of the session.
Every voice in the balcony responded to the song “Yesterday” Thursday evening as “Rain — A Tribute to the Beatles” performed at the Paramount Arts Center.
A Greenup County man whose trial in his wife’s alcohol-related traffic death ended with a hung jury in January will be retried, but apparently not on a murder charge.
Residents in the Ceredo, Kenova, Huntington and Boyd County areas should not be concerned if they see numerous emergency vehicles enroute to Tri-State Airport Saturday morning.
Cincinnati attorney John C. Merchant was elected Thursday as the first African-American chairman of the Morehead State University Board of Regents.
Four decades after its founding, the Greenup County Public Library wants to build a new home.
Life Day celebration for Dell Rachell, a 19-year liver transplant recipient, will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pathways’ Executive Offices, 1212 Bath Ave. To RSVP for breakfast, call (606) 329-8588, ext. 4128.
County officials Thursday called a provision in the House state budget plan “a threat to public safety” because of a cost-savings measure to reduce the number of nonviolent, nonsexual offenders behind bars.
Several groups representing county officials are asking state lawmakers not to go through with a plan to reduce the number of Class D felons behind bars, most of whom are housed in county jails which receive payments from the state.
A bill to protect victims of domestic abuse was amended Thursday by a Senate committee in response to concerns about costs and consitutional protections.
How can the state build new schools or water and sewer systems without the money for them - but should a child's school or safe drinking water be determined by a lawmaker's vote?
A Carter Circuit Court jury on Wednesday wasted no time in deciding to acquit Timothy Emerson in the shooting death of his neighbor, Richard Lawrence.
Not even out of the sixth grade, Makenna Ryan already knows she wants to go to college.
In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday night, the Ashland Board of Zoning Adjustment voted to give St. Paul Lutheran Church a conditional use permit to open its planned day care and preschool.
For those who enjoy art on the outer limits, the Red Lion Theatre Company will bring back its Fringe Festival this weekend.
The memories of an Ashland man who was one of the survivors of the nation’s most tragic bus accident will be added to “The Very Worst Thing” when the documentary shows during an upcoming showing at the Paramount Arts Center.
The group PRIDE will award up to $17,500 to Lawrence County, Louisa and Blaine to dispose of roadside litter, remove dumps or offer free trash dropoff events during Spring Cleanup Month in April.
Proponents called it a jobs bill, critics irresponsible, but the House state budget contains lots of goodies for folks back home - if their representative voted for the revenue measures to fund it.
The outcome was never in doubt as House Democrats had more than enough votes, but it took three hours of debate and 24 speeches to pass a $17.5 billion two-year budget laden with projects.
A Carter County jury deliberated for only an hour and eight minutes Wednesday before acquitting Timothy Emerson, 51, of Fighting Fork in the Aug. 8 shooting death of his neighbor, Richard Lawrence, 41.
As spring nears and winter dissolves into the cold, ugly past, many in the area are starting to think about and plan for summer vacation.
The idea of coming full circle repeats in conversations with Teri Clark, director of development at the Paramount Arts Center.
Text-based, hip hop artist Baba Israel will perform at 7 p.m. March 16 at the Huntington Museum of Art. The artist talked about his work via e-mail recently.
The Ashland Youth Ballet will present its Spring Concert 2010 at 7 p.m. March 23 at the Paramount Arts Center.
The true-life antics of Don Juan of Seville will play out live at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Monday.
“Don Giovanni,” presented by the Marshall Artists Series, will be the first presentation of the opera in Huntington in more than 40 years.
A local band calling itself “countrypolitan” is releasing its independent, debut CD with a party from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Ashland American Legion Post 76 ballroom in Ashland.
Music legend Loretta Lynn will headline the sixth annual Nelsonville Music Festival, set for May 14 through 16 at Robbins Crossing on the campus of Hocking College.
A tearful Timothy Emerson on Tuesday told the jury in his murder trial he still has nightmares about shooting his neighbor, Richard Lawrence.
Authorities have determined a fatal house fire more than a year ago in rural Greenup County was a case of arson-homicide.
There was no decision Tuesday night by Ashland’s Board of Zoning Adjustment about St. Paul Lutheran Church’s application for a conditional use permit to open a day care center and preschool at its facility in the 1300 block of Bath Avenue.
Citizen Foster Care Review Boards for Boyd and Greenup counties are seeking volunteers to aid the cause of foster children.
Last week the House approved a revenue plan to fund a new two-year budget, including some temporary changes to a couple of business taxes. At the time, only one Republican voted for the measure.
Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital’s Meals on Wheels program is participating in the national 2010 March For Meals campaign.
A group of residents of the rural South Shore area is asking Greenup to include them in a water line project.
About 30 residents of Pinson Ridge and Blackburn Ridge want to be part of the project, the eighth extension of water lines from Greenup’s municipal plant.
Veteran journalist and broadcaster Jim Phillips, news director of WGOH/WUGO Radio in Grayson, will be added to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame during an April 8 ceremony in Lexington.
With warm weather and increased opportunities for live music on downtown streets just weeks away, members of Ashland Main Street are trying to assemble a proper sound system to let local bands be heard.
Republicans contended during debate on a new road plan that projects had been removed from their districts to punish them for voting against tax changes last week.
The House and Senate budget committees worked on different aspects of the proposed House state budget Wedneday with business groups pleading with Senators not to make tax changes to raise more money.
An older woman is getting into her vehicle following a Wednesday evening service at Centenary United Methodist Church in the 2900 block of Winchester Avenue when a stranger approaches her asking for money.
The first-graders in Kari Kennedy’s class were vigorously singing they like, like, like, apples and bananas.
East Carter is finally back on top.
Boyd County Judge-Executive William “Bud,” Stevens will be the keynote speaker today as the “Portrait of America” road tour continues its trek across the Bluegrass State, this time stopping in Ashland to raise awareness of the 2010 Census.
Building upon a strong foundation of musical talent in the area, musical performer and event organizer Chuck Robertson is planing a rock festival that will make Louisa the “must-be” place for music lovers.
Like 90 percent of Americans, I’ve looked at the calendar and decided I absolutely must drop a few pounds before summer and the requisite shorts, sleeveless shirts and bathing suits.
Brian Wilks flipped his welding mask down, bent over the tee joint and depressed the trigger of the welding gun.
An old Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad caboose sits outside the refinery on old U.S. 23, rusting away.
For a man with no legs, Ron Bachman covers a lot of territory.
Considering the number of kids in her school district eligible for free or reduced-price lunches has jumped by 6 percent in a year, Jo Williams believes her recent trip to Washington was worthwhile.
Road departments across the region are asking for motorists help in locating potholes that need patching.
The following information was taken from Ashland Police Department reports:
Southern Ohio Medical Center will continue to offer breast health screening services to uninsured and underinsured women in Scioto, Pike and Lawrence counties, thanks to a grant received from the Columbus Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Officials in Ashland are moving forward with a plan to try curbside recycling pickup.
Greenup County is in the market for a new emergency communications director.
Mark Maynard, managing editor of The Independent in Ashland, Ky., will be signing copies of his new book “Mark My Words” on Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at CoffeeTree Books in Morehead.
Life for a Swedish exchange student is mostly good, according to Cecilia Froberg of Malmö, who is 16 and spending her junior year at Russell High School.
