Soldier News

The Morehead News will be adding a Soldier's Corner to its online edition. Anyone who wishes to send a greeting to a member of the military can do so by sending it to The Morehead News, 722 West First Street, Morehead, KY 40351 or email greetings to sockerman@themoreheadnews.com. Greetings may be edited for space and content.

Everyone attending Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony at the former Ashland Inc. hangar in Worthington agreed: Bringing Portable Solutions Group and Price Solutions from a small location near Olive Hill to the massive manufacturing space at the Ashland Regional Airport will be a "win-win" scenario for all involved.

Staff Sergeant Michael Dement is in the Morehead-based Kentucky Army National Guard 301st Chemical Company and is currently serving on his third deployment and second tour in Baghdad, Iraq.

Voters in Carter and Lewis Counties elected Republican Jill York as state representative for the 96th District, by a margin of 882 votes.

Two more group home workers have pleaded guilty to abusing a patient, who died later, following what state officials called "a dangerous pattern of abuse." Todd Gribbens of Flatwoods and Earl Pelphrey of Grayson pleaded guilty to three felonies - wanton abuse of an adult, first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree unlawful imprisonment, ...

The New Christy Minstrels, the Grammy Award winner 1960's folk group, recently took time from their latest national tour to make a brief stop at Walker's Grill in Olive Hill.

Three people are dead and one man is in jail on receiving stolen property charges, as Kentucky State Police investigate a double-homicide Monday on Macabee Creek near Soldier and a third death in the Anglin area of Carter County.

Kentucky State Police have arrested a man whom they say was driving a vehicle belonging to one of the victims in a double homicide in western Carter County on Monday.

OAK GROVE, KY According to police in Oak Grove, KY, a female soldier stationed at Fort Campbell has been killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide. NBC affiliate WSMV-TV in Nashville reports the shooting happened around 2 p.m. CST at a house on Gail Street in Oak Grove in Christian County.

Twenty-one individuals were indicted by a Carter County Grand Jury on May 29, with a total of 25 counts.