Vanceburg News

A 16-year old Lewis County High School student was killed in a traffic accident early Friday morning.

A Vanceburg woman is facing charges of criminal abuse involving a child younger than 12 after being accused of using duct tape to bind a child with special needs.

Fulfilling decades of Carter County campaign promises, the final layer of pavement will be applied to the "Rock Crusher Curve" project along U.S. 60 near Olive Hill in the days ahead - if weather allows.

Lewis County High School has been selected as one of nine Kentucky schools to receive federal grant funding for a program aimed at improving the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers, according to a news release from the Kentucky Department of Education.

Officials with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced Friday a section of Kentucky 8 at Vanceburg has reopened after contractors used "soil nails" to strengthen the roadway.

Many out-of-town motorcyclists participated in the Motorcycle and Music Rally Saturday.

Lewis County has been designated to receive $28,300 in County Road Aid funding to repair a slide on Straight Fork Road in the Camp Dix area.

Pain prescription routes to and from Florida infect Kentucky with abusers.

Two people have been arrested in connection with several thefts and burglaries in Lewis and surrounding counties.

The city of Vanceburg said goodbye Thursday to a man who was far more than the local fire chief for 25 years.

In a move to shut down the pill pipeline, some independent pharmacies in Florida are refusing to fill prescriptions that out-of-state residents obtain from Florida pain clinics.

Greenup County dermatologist Jack Ditty is the Republican nominee in an Aug. 25 special election to fill the 18th District state Senate seat vacated by Charlie Borders who resigned to accept a position on the Public Service Commission.

Police in Lewis County arrested 20 individuals on drug charges Saturday morning in a cooperative effort between the Vanceburg Police Department and the FIVCO Area Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Kenneth and Marcella Esham stand in their yard on Route 8, among the many broken branches that resulted from the ice storm.

Brendon Lyons, 6, rinses mud from under his armpits after he ran in the Dash for Cash as Tyler Lacy and Austin Wynn wait their turn in line at Muddina for Cancer.

The rugged hills and hollows of Greenup County don't yield crops easily. Left to themselves, they would remain blanketed with trees - beautiful, perhaps, but wild.

Recovering from a common cold is not newsworthy. For Freddie Bevins and his parents, however, it's an answer to years of prayer.