Wurtland News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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