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14 hrs ago | Independent

Biofuel entrepreneurs gear up for production

Wide grins are never far from the faces of Jeff Lowe and Brandon Minix as they walk a visitor through their Midwestern Biofuels plant in Wurtland.

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Sat Dec 12, 2009

Independent

Coming Sunday and Monday

Coming Sunday and Monday: With the eyes of the world glued to the Copenhagen climate conference for a plan to reduce world-wide carbon emissions, regional farmers and a Wurtland start-up company are looking to provide biofuel products to lower greenhouse gases pouring out of coal-fired electric plants.

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Wed Dec 02, 2009

Independent

Police beat:

The following information was taken from Ashland Police Department reports: Theft A< Prichard Lawn Care, 1305 Boy Scout Road, reported Saturday that one of its vehicles, valued at $12,000, had been stolen, and that another vehicle had been vandalized.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Independent

DuPont attorneys to appeal

Attorneys for DuPont have given notice of their intent to appeal a portion of the $1.3 million verdict returned against the company in July in connection with a 2004 chemical release at its Wurtland facility.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Independent

2 arrested in Wurtland drug raid

Two Ohio residents were arrested Tuesday in a drug raid at a residence in Wurtland.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

Independent

$30,000 taken from home in burglary

The following information was taken from Ashland Police Department reports: Burglary -A man living in the 100 block of Carriage Gate Road reported Thursday that someone broke into his home and made off with $30,000 cash.

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

Independent

Parents still upset about busing

Families whose children attend middle school across attendance district boundaries in the Greenup County School District got the official news Wednesday they will have to make changes.

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Wed Sep 09, 2009

Independent

Greenup busing issue

Middle school students in the Greenup County district will have to go to the school on their side of the county after Oct.

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Wed Aug 26, 2009

KISS 107 FM WBKS

The controversy concerns transport to the county's two middle schools.

Greenup County's Board of Education has decided to back up on a plan regarding where children should attend middle school.

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Thu Aug 13, 2009

Independent

Worth copying a "

To say that the new work farm in Greenup County has been successful in reducing the cost of operating the Greenup County Detention Center would be an understatement.

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Sat Aug 01, 2009

Independent

Medal of Honor recipient featured speaker at event

Best known as a Medal of Honor recipient, Ernest "Ernie" West is more interested in talking about the history of Wurtland than telling war stories.

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Thu Jul 30, 2009

Independent

DuPont cases could be tried soon

The next group of cases in a massive federal lawsuit against DuPont could go to trial before the end of the year, perhaps as soon as October.

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Thu Jul 23, 2009

Kentucky Law Blog

VERDICTS: "Jury: DuPont negligent in '04 spill"

Says plaintiffs are entitled to 10 times the damages they would have otherwise collected Kenneth Hart/The Independent Ashland a ' A jury has found chemical giant DuPont guilty of gross negligence in a 2004 leak at its Wurtland plant that released clouds of sulfuric acid over large portions of Greenup County.

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Tue Jul 21, 2009

Portsmouth Daily Times

Jury: DuPont Negligent In Greenup Leak

A jury has found Delaware-Based chemical giant DuPont guilty of gross negligence when a leak from a cracked pipe at its Wurtland plant five years ago sent clouds of sulfuric acid into the air over eastern Greenup County.

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Sun Jul 19, 2009

Independent

Old heartbreaks, new hopes

Once the royalty of the eastern forest, the American chestnut is frozen in time between the memories of those who lived with it and the new efforts of people trying to save it.

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Thu Jul 16, 2009

Business First of Louisville

Ky. jury finds Dupont negligent

A jury in Ashland, Ky., has found E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. grossly negligent for a toxic chemical accident at its Wurtland, Ky., plant in 2004.

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Wed Jul 15, 2009

Cleaning & Maintenance Mgmt.

Verdict: DuPont grossly negligent for chemical spill

A jury has ruled that DuPont was grossly negligent for a chemical spill that affected hundreds at its plant in Wurtland, Kentucky, in 2004, according to the Business Courier of Cincinnati .

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Tue Jul 14, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

DuPont liable in KY chemical case

LOUISVILLE - A federal jury has ordered DuPont to pay more than $1.25 million to six people who were injured when fuming sulfuric acid spilled from an eastern Kentucky plant five years ago.

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Cincypost.Com

Federal Jury Awards $1.25M In Chemical Leak

A federal jury has ordered DuPont to pay more than $1.25 million to six people who were injured when fuming sulfuric acid spilled from an eastern Kentucky plant five years ago.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

WTCR-AM Huntington

Greenup County road fatality

Greenup County Sheriffs Deputies say a recent Raceland High graduate has died in a car crash.

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