Greenup News

Around 700 people showed up on the state Capitol steps on Independence Day to stage their own TEA Party and voice their displeasure with policies of President Barack Obama and Congress.

The culmination of Summer Motion will be the Some Gave All town hall event on Sunday honoring Kentucky soldiers who paid the ultimate price for our nation's freedom.

A free clinic for low income people without insurance in Boyd and Greenup counties is in the planning stages.

After being a part of the 201st Engineer Battalion for roughly a third of the unit's history, Lt.

A company employing rail workers at the Raceland Car Shops has entered the legal fight against Raceland's payroll tax and claims the shops are not inside the city.

The Northeastern Recruitment and Certification Team had its annual Foster Parent Appreciation picnic at Flatwoods City Park on June 5. There was a catered lunch, door prizes and a training opportunity about college financial aid programs available for foster and adopted youth.

If it stops raining and the river doesn't rise, volunteers will again join forces along the banks of the Ohio River Saturday for the annual River Sweep.

Weight issues might become more real in Greenup County as a free program developed by the UK Cooperative Extension Service progresses.

You can never have too many guitars. Guitar players and collectors attending the Paramount Arts Center's first Guitar Show on Saturday afternoon often had wide-eyed looks of wonder as they gazed at rare, vintage, new and unusual instruments.

The Greenup County Sheriff's Department executed three search warrants in various locations throughout rural Greenup County on Thursday and Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into trafficking of prescription pain pills.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following are edited versions of letters written by foreign exchange students who spent the school year living with families in northeastern Kentucky and attending area high school.

Specialist Jeremy R. Gullett died in Afghanistan last year while serving his country as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

A federal judge has allowed a convict in a drug-trafficking conspiracy to delay reporting to prison for health reasons.

A Greenup County man who lost his life in Afghanistan last year is being remembered in a special way this week.

Greenup Fiscal Court on Monday took action aimed at facilitating the transition between engineering firms overseeing the next extension of Greenup's water line network.

Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Ky. 2 will be closed to all traffic four miles south of Greenup while ceremonies honoring a Greenup County soldier killed in action in Afghanistan take place.

The May 9 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive by postal workers was once again a success.

A Greenup County teenager was killed in an accident on I-64 early Thursday morning, according to the Carter County Sheriff's Department.

The city council will have to meet tonight to hash out its choice for a firm to oversee the next extension of the Greenup water line system.

A former employee of the Flatwoods Rite Aid store has been charged with stealing nearly $9,000 from the establishment.