Boyd County News

Workers are pitching in to give a facelift to a Vietnam-era armored vehicle that soon will be on display at the Boyd County War Memorial in northeastern Kentucky.

The Westwood Volunteer Fire Department celebrated 60 years of service to the community with an open house on Saturday.

CASA expresses thanks to all the students, parents, faculty and staff of Ashland, Boyd County, Russell and Fairview schools for their participation in our annual Pennies from Heaven Campaign.

Some farmers in Eastern Kentucky say their crops are being consumed in the fields by huge flocks of birds.

A number of local individuals took advantage of the first day of election filings to announce their candidacy for 2010 races.

A nominating panel has sent Gov. Steve Beshear the names of 3 candidates to fill a judicial opening in Kentucky's 32nd Judicial District, which covers Boyd County.

Tiny goblins, witches, ghosts and other not-so-scary creatures will be roaming the streets throughout Ashland, Boyd County and most other area communities tonight as young children celebrate Halloween by going trick-or-treating. As we prepare for this annual event, we offer a few words of caution: --Drivers need to use extra care as they travel ...

Vandals spray painted graffiti over large swaths of the Ashland Paul Blazer High School campus on the eve of its annual football grudge match with Boyd County High.

The 911 centers in Greenup and Boyd counties this week were awarded state Community Mobile Radio Service Board grants to improve their services.

Catlettsburg's former fire chief was arrested Monday night after being indicted for allegedly misappropriating funds from the fire department's charitable gaming operations.

A former Eastern Kentucky fire chief is indicted. Danny Cornette of Catlettsburg in Boyd County is accused of not making deposits totaling more than 43 thousand dollars into the Catlettsburg volunteer fire department's account at a local bank.

Future users of the gym at Catlettsburg Elementary will be a lot more comfortable.

The Boyd County chapter of the NAACP has a new president. And she's already quite familiar with the organization, seeing as how she'd previously served eight years at the helm of it.

Neighbors sharing information with police about suspicious activity in their neighborhoods is key to winning the fight against a rash of burglaries in Boyd County, according to law enforcement officials and Neighborhood Watch organizers.

It's a flat concrete pad at the foot of an embankment, surrounded by earth that has obviously been recently turned.

The gathering of educators at Summit Elementary School Friday came together to applaud achievements in the Boyd County district and Northeast Kentucky.

An Ashland man has been arrested in connection with an August burglary in which a safe was stolen from a Boyd County pizza parlor.

A series of criminal acts including daylight burglaries of homes and vehicles has caused residents of rural Boyd County areas to band together with Sheriff Terry Keelin to create a new method of keeping track of what's happening around them.

Health officials began administering the first 200 doses of swine flu vaccine to Boyd County first responders on Wednesday.

A woman injured in a house fire early Saturday morning in Bellefonte has died. Susan Lynn Douglas Hahn, 53, a former freelance journalist who wrote for several area publications, died Monday in Cabell Huntington Hospital, according to Ricki Gardenhire, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Fire Marshal's Office, which is investigating the blaze.