Steve Justice holds and strums his dulcimer with a great and gentle love, his eyes closed, taking in the sound that is a comfort to him.
Early next month, Brent Goodwin will start cutting grass as part of a summer internship.
But this is no ordinary lawn.
The intermediate grades — fourth and fifth — are separated by a hallway from the primary ones at Greysbranch Elementary School.
Justice for all.
A U.S. military search team digging into a steep mountainside in southern Laos found camera parts, film, broken watches and bits of wreckage, proof that a South Vietnamese helicopter had been shot down there in 1971, a chopper that was carrying four top-rated war photographers and seven Vietnamese soldiers.
Ashland native and Arizona pitcher Brandon Webb took to the mound on a cool and rainy afternoon in Cincinnati to open the 2008 baseball season against baseball’s oldest professional team.
Former President Bill Clinton got a warm welcome on a cold, windy day when he was the star of a rally-style gathering at the Morehead Convention Center Tuesday.
"Clooneymania" reached fever pitch Monday as star-struck women lined up in droves and this northern Kentucky town rolled out the red carpet for locally homegrown movie star George Clooney.
Call it the Great Escape.
Coach Chris O’Hearn said as much after his Mason County team — a Sweet Sixteen co-favorite with Lexington Catholic — overcame a seven-point deficit down the stretch to squeeze past Elliott County 66-62 Thursday night in an electric first-round game.
Mason County found itself in a fight for survival against Elliott County in the last opening round game of the 91st Boys State Tournament in Rupp Arena on Thursday night.
Russell High School’s academic team fell to Lexington’s Paul Laurence Dunbar in the final round of quick recall at the state Governor’s Cup competition Monday.
It’s morning in the Bug Club.
Lynda Downs is sitting in a rocking chair, children are spread out on the rug in front of her.
Former Olympic hurdler Sharrieffa Barksdale brought a Can Do message to young athletes Saturday morning.
The heavy snowfall Saturday couldn't stop a regional horse show at Morehead State University's farm in Rowan County.
The snow couldn't keep the horses still, either.
Greenup County succeeded in getting Elliott County’s attention this time.
Rose Hill made its return to the 16th Region Tournament in dominating fashion Wednesday night, knocking off Rowan County 62-37 in the first round, and Chad Jackson was the show-stopper.
East Carter cruised past Raceland 68-42 Wednesday night in the first round of the 16th Region Tournament at Ellis T. Johnson Arena.
Teams struggled mightily to make shots throughout the first round of the Girls 16th Region Tournament.
It literally went down to the wire in historic Wetherby Gymnasium on Tuesday. When the smoke cleared, Morgan County had a 33-31 win over Russell to advance to Friday’s 16th Region semifinals.
Raceland punched its ticket to the girls’ 16th Region semifinals with a 43-37 win over Bath County on Monday in Morehead State’s Wetherby Gymnasium.
It took Ashland a little while to get started in the first high regional basketball game in Wetherby Gym since 1976.
Southeastern Ohio has found itself at centerstage in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination this week.
After going 32 years without a district championship, Raceland’s girls basketball team is on a roll.
Ashland claimed its first district title since 1997 Thursday night, hanging on to defeat host Boyd County 47-35 in the 64th District championship.
The ACTC Children's Theater musical production of Seussical Jr. is a Broadway production adapted to younger voices and will be presented this weekend at ACTC. The cast is made up of 50 young performers from the third to ninth grades,
His friends and his co-workers at McGinnis Inc. know him by his nickname — Cheesy.
But it’s his given name — James Allen Ward III — that’s about to become widely known at Ohio and Mississippi River ports from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.
A rare individual with a way of making people feel good about themselves and what they do, Nancy McClellan is destined to be remembered in art, songs and stories.
Bath County point guard Blandon Clemons was fantastic, but Rose Hill Christian was better at the end.
An early-morning fire destroyed a stately brick home near the Bellefonte Country Club Friday.
Smoke alarms roused the homeowner and may have saved his life.
With a single practice session to prepare for Friday night’s show, J.D. Crowe and The New South hit the Paramount Arts Center Stage with two new band members and an audience of enthusiastic fans.
Two dozen firefighters from three jurisdictions battled a house fire on Ky. 693 for several hours on Monday in wind, snow and subfreezing temperatures.
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra brought three scenes of operatic madness to the Paramount Arts Center stage Saturday evening with the performance of "Twisted Sisters: Mad Ladies of the Opera".
Jessica Melvin and John Adkins are an unlikely student and teacher pair.
Ashland was in typical form in beating visiting district foe Fairview, 72-57, in an anticipated matchup of two of the 16th Region’s best at Anderson Gym on Friday night.
Once again, you've provided the moments for The Independent's musical Christmas Card to the community.
Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82.
“The Great Russian Nutcracker” enchanted audience members and local ballet dancers alike at the Paramount Arts Center on Sunday.
The big double bass shows a little more wear than it did when he bought it in 1936, but when Edward L. Buchanan draws his bow across its strings, the opening notes of “Amazing Grace” rumble out clearly.
Using a chainsaw like a fine chisel, Joe Salyers looks at his art as just another part of living a normal life.
Ashland Community and Technical College Theatre is presenting “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
In 1948, 12-year-old Sandy Woods and her parents attended their first church service at England Hill Freewill Baptist Church.
First-time visitors to the Paramount Arts Center can be overwhelmed by its ornate murals, chandeliers and Art Deco decor.
The official death toll from a cyclone that wreaked havoc on southwest Bangladesh reached 1,070 Saturday, while military helicopters and ships joined rescue and relief operations and aid workers on the ground struggled to reach victims.
Many of those who attended Tuesday evening’s Grayson City Council meeting were shaking their heads in disbelief as they departed, while others gathered and talked about what they could do.
Since she was a little girl, Jessie Gibson has made the yearly pilgrimage to jump-start her holiday spirit in the glow of the Winter Wonderland of Lights in Central Park.
Digging coal deep underground, Luo Xianglai learned to listen hard to the sounds the rocks made when struck with his pickax.
Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead," died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Assessment and recovery teams hit the skies, waters and beaches Friday trying to contain the damage from a 58,000-gallon oil spill that has stained some of Northern California's coastline.
Brothers Jim and Jesse Ross have cultivated a hobby into jobs with sweet rewards.
An Ashland man found guilty last month of being a serial child abuser will most likely die in prison.
Perched high above his raucous teammates, David Ortiz sprayed bottles of bubbly in every direction, dousing everyone in sight, including himself.
Fittingly, a game with all kinds of hoopla produced big plays to match.
The wind-fueled fires that have burned more than 700 homes and chased away 265,000 residents may be only the start of the destruction in Southern California, where Tuesday's forecast called for hotter temperatures and more explosive gusts.
Rick and Regina Wells made a decision seven years ago that Rick would give up a safe "public job" and return to his family's farm to work the land for a living and be with his family everyday.
Cape Cod, one of the most crowded places during the summer months, is also an environmental machine in motion. While the population may triple during the tourist season, the salt marshes, marine sanctuaries, and the federal national shore work to ensure balance along the coast.
Two of the country’s rising teenage tennis stars met Wednesday at the Ashland Tennis Center.
Advantage Kim Couts.
With sunny skies and temperature highs in the low 70s, the weekend weather couldn’t have been better, Sue Dowdy said.
Ask an obvious question — such as what, exactly, does a device known as “The Do-All Machine” do, anyway? — and one should probably expect to receive an equally obvious reply.
There actually were three parades in Catlettsburg Monday morning — the cars streaming in and turning normally quiet streets into long parking lots was one; the families, many of them toting lawn chairs, walking from their homes and cars to find good viewing spots downtown was another.
The bids flew fast and furiously in the show arena Saturday and when the last lamb trotted back to its pen, the Greenup County Fair’s 4-H/FFA livestock sale had broken its sales record.
Carrie Sammons remembers the ’37 flood in vivid detail.
The Col. Bill Williams Greenup Heritage Music Festival drew more nearly 500 people to the Greenbo Lake State Resort Park amphitheater on Friday.
Coordinators of the Boyd County Fair livestock auction said they’re feeling the growing pains, and it feels good.
One of the oldest businesses in Louisa is Wellman Hardware Store.
The owner of the grand champion hog at the Boyd County Fair hopes to be a pig farmer one day.
It’s going to be a good week for a fair.
True to the prediction of one its featured acts, Mountain Stage was “full of prestige and magnificence” during Saturday’s show at the Paramount Arts Center.
Here we go folks. Sale’s on!
This is the grand champion steer weighing in at 1,155 pounds.
The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
It was Diamond Rio, not REO Speedwagon, that headlined Wednesday night’s Summer Motion finale on the Ashland riverfront.
Pilots will take to the skies tonight and Wednesday for the Summer Motion Air Show.
A simple race strategy worked on Saturday for Caroline Fannin, winner of this year’s Ashland Soap Box Derby:
In a soggy closing round, Donnie Shin and Ayaka Kaneko drained any drama out of the final holes of the 24th annual Natural Resource Partners Bluegrass Junior.
Yes, Woods has a share of the lead going to the final round.
The first round of the AGJA Natural Resources Partners Bluegrass Junior Tournament kicked off at Bellefonte Wednesday.
J. P. Newsome came away with more than he expected in a qualifying round for the Natural Resource Partners Bluegrass Junior.
Her hair was braided, and a band with beads encircled her head.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association changed from two to four team trophies in each division for the 2007 State Track and Field Championships.
As the 12th annual Ashland Brass Band Festival got underway, the phrase “I’m with the band” was tossed around quite a bit.
With two Ohio River bridges temporarily out of commission in the Tri-State, the last thing commuters wanted to hear is that another would be closed, especially because of a family of falcons.
America’s longest-running Memorial Day parade kept right on ticking without missing a beat Monday.
Four hundred and fifty bricks were laid Thursday at the Greenup War Memorial and each of them has a name.
A West Virginia man who fought in the Civil War was reburied in Spring Hill Cemetery on Saturday with full military honors.
Rab Wilson, 81, one of the co-founders of the Catlettsburg Little League threw out the ceremonial first pitch Saturday to his greatgrandson Drew Sorrell, a 7-year-old who plays for the Reds
For the first time in school history, the Elliott County Lions won the 16th Region Champsionship and the right to play in Rupp Arena in the Boys Sweet Sixteen Tournament.
The Lions were able to play in two rounds, falling to Warren Central before a packed crowd that made the team their favorite.
Highlights of the 16th Region Girls' Tournament in Morehead.
Quentin Lockwood will never forget.
“Every morning when I shave, I see the scars where they sewed up my head,” he says.
Scars that take the veteran back to a time when he and nine other aviators crash-landed a crippled B-24 Liberator in the Adriatic Sea, 15 miles behind enemy lines.
Brandon Webb took the mound for the first time Thursday as a Cy Young Award winner.
Clangs echo through the barn as Ken Airgood drops one horseshoe after another on the concrete floor.
Some look a bit round. Some squarish.
They taper differently, between front hoof and back.
“There’s all those different extremes, and it all depends on what you want to do with the horse,” he says.
Dave Waldien stretches, shining his
helmet’s light into a limestone crevice.
“I’ve got two,” he says. “One’s a big brown ... and I’m not sure what that one is.” Stepping across a few of the cave’s boulders, Jim Kennedy takes a look.
Girls gather around Nathan Andary as he counts heads, making sure all the dancers have arrived.
Despite the black tape on their toes, the girls look elegant in their sleek dance clothes and chignons.
Thank you very much. And tonight, I have a high privilege and distinct honor of my own -- as the first President to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker.
The walls of Summit Elementary vibrated to the beat of taiko drums on a recent Friday afternoon.
Where was Betty Ford when her namesake clinic for substance abusers opened in 1982? Dashing off to Kmart with her husband to buy soap dishes for patients' rooms.
The United States remembered Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday for what he did not have _ pretensions, a scheming agenda, a great golf game _ as much as for the small-town authenticity he brought to the presidency.
The nation honored Gerald R. Ford in funeral ceremonies Saturday that recalled the touchstones of his life, from combat in the Pacific to a career he cherished in Congress to a presidency he did not seek. He was remembered as the man called to heal the country from the trauma of Watergate.
Andre Woodson conjured up memories of Tim Couch and made Kentucky a bowl winner for the first time in 22 years.
Woodson threw for three touchdowns and 299 yards as the Wildcats surprised Clemson 28-20 in the Music City Bowl on Friday.
Kentucky will play Clemson Friday at 1 p.m. (ESPN) in the Music City Bowl in Nashville.
Gerald R. Ford will be mourned in the rare and solemn spectacle of a state funeral crafted to honor his reverence for Congress, the institution that launched him to the presidency.
James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.
