Independence News

COVINGTON - Former Covington Business Council executive director Beth Sewell is formally kicking off her campaign for Kenton County Fiscal Court Friday marching in three Fourth of July parades.

Gov. Steve Beshear called Kentucky lawmakers to Frankfort last month to deal with a $1 billion budget deficit.

INDEPENDENCE - 5-11 p.m. Fireworks preview at 10 p.m. by Vito's Fireworks, food, rides, games, music at Memorial Park.

When a major sponsor of the 11th Annual Independence Day Celebration in Independence Kentucky pulled out, organizers were left $10,000 short and the event almost didn't happen.

Receiving his Simon Kenton High School diploma 45 years after he would have graduated filled a void for Vietnam veteran Wayman "Wayne" Carlisle Jr.

Boone County detectives have received surveillance photos from a Florence, Ky., retailer taken the day the man in the photos allegedly dressed like a police officer and robbed a woman.

A just-returned Iraqi war veteran says he was shocked at the fee his bank imposed when he paid off his car loan.

The Dunn/Cherry House, just off Court Street in Smithland, KY. The home was built nearly 150 years ago.

INDEPENDENCE -- Emergency crews were called to a wreck on Senour Road near Fowler Creek Road ithis afternoon.

At approximately 3:20 p.m. Rachel Ross, 31, of Independence, claims she had just traveled through the intersection of Mount Zion and Gunpowder Roads near Union, going eastbound on Mount Zion Road in a white Toyota Camry when she was stopped by a black Ford Crown Victoria with tinted windows and red and blue lights in the grill and on the dash of ...

Bids for replacement of the Old Richardson Road Bridge have come in lower than expected, and city officials say demolition should take place by mid-July. * More Independence news A year ago, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recommended that the city close the two-lane bridge that spans Banklick Creek, citing the breakdown of its superstructure.

A bill that would radically change the way some local taxes are levied was given a hearing Thursday by legislators who spent much of the day in Northern Kentucky.

INDEPENDENCE - A career as a Christian recording group was the last thing five Northern Kentucky women expected when they started singing together to raise money for their church.

Tuesday, Kenton Fiscal Court approved a number of board appointments. Steven Charles Corry will serve a three-year term on the Independence Fire District Board, effective July 1; Steve Hatfield and Richard Robinson were reappointed to four-year terms on the Kenton County Airport Board, retroactive to June 3; Jean Miller was reappointed to a ...

Kristi Baker has always known what she wanted to do, ever since she was 10 years old growing up in California, Ky.

COVINGTON - A 19-year-old former day care worker has been indicted on child molesting charges.

Kenton County and Covington officials will have a lot to celebrate Friday morning, when they finally break ground on a new $41 million county jail.

INDEPENDENCE - A flash flood last month through Breathitt County, about 150 miles southeast of here, left Rousseau Elementary School under water.

UNION - Owen Ray Bishop, 62, died Wednesday, May 27, at his home. He was truck driver for Kroger and a Vietnam Army veteran.

VILLA HILLS - Donald Ray Edwards, 81, died Wednesday, May 27, at St. Elizabeth Edgewood.