Keavy News

Hammers will soon be flying at four Laurel County schools as the school board accepted more than $11 million in construction bids for renovations at Colony, Johnson and Keavy Elementary schools and North Laurel High School at a special called meeting Thursday.

A fatal motorcycle crash near Corbin early Friday afternoon killed a local resident.

Laurel County Sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic dispute in Keavy Sunday had to wrestle with and then taze a man before taking him into custody.

Weeks after he was indicted for manufacturing methamphetamine, a Keavy man picked up additional charges after deputies reported finding meth oil and meth-related items at his home.

Times-Tribune Staff Report Byron Baker, 27, was arrested for the second time this year on charges that he was making methamphetamine this past Thursday.

Keavy firefighters were called to battle a house fire on Auger Springs Road about 9 a.m. Thursday.

Penny pinching from a few years back is now paying dividends, as indicated in the Laurel County Fiscal Court's proposed $16.5 million budget.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Laurel County sheriff's deputies arrested two men and a woman found at an outdoor methamphetamine lab.

Former Kentucky Adjutant General Donald Storm was the voice of Memorial Day in Laurel County this weekend, speaking to crowds about the importance of core values.

Sporting crisp, hours-old uniforms and holding billowing flags, the members of the Alliance of Laurel County Fire Departments' new honor guard practiced into the dusk Monday.

Ellis Wells was killed Friday when he was ejected from his Toyota 4Runner after it ran off KY 312 in Keavy and overturned.

Times-Tribune Staff Report Dino's Italian Restaurant & Lounge in Corbin is inviting local charities to sign up for Dino's Choose Your Cause Sundays fundraising campaign.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer The Laurel County Board of Education on Monday approved a tentative 2010 fiscal year budget of $90.8 million, a little more than $100,000 over the 2009 fiscal year.

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Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Fifth graders at Oak Grove School on Wednesday portrayed the founding of the nation in a living diorama.

Federal stimulus dollars have started flowing through Laurel County, money that will put 30 local kids to work this summer.

Kentucky State Police's initial investigation into the death of an infant dropped by a 9-year-old has determined it was an accident and no criminal charges will be filed.

Sterling Franklin and Thomas Hyde sing "A Little Priest" during dress rehearsal Thursday of Corbin HIgh School's production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. April 23-25 at the Betty Hamilton Center for the Performing Arts.

Times-Tribune Staff Report Three people were transported to the hospital after witnesses say a 77-year-old man failed to stop at a red light near Baptist Regional Medical Center causing a four-vehicle wreck.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer On the heels of the economic downturn, inquiries into home vegetable gardens have doubled and even tripled for local plant nurseries and University of Kentucky county agricultural extension service offices.