Boyd County News Archives

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.

Diane DiLego, owner of the Paperback Exchange in Ashland, has an unusual gift. "For some reason I can remember what people have read.

CATLETTSBURG A convenience store employee was injured when he was struck by a vehicle on U.S. 23.

Despite a new departure point along the Ohio River and a questionable weather forecast, the Ashland Alliance had a boatload of members aboard the Belle of Cincinnati for the organization's annual meeting Tuesday evening.

What makes a good tournament? It's the people, the talented players, wonderful sponsors, great parents and those interested in tennis.

Kentucky officials say water falling on molten metal appears to have caused an explosion at an Eastern Kentucky metals plant.

An industrial plant in rural Boyd County was rocked by a series of explosions on Monday.

The head of an organization that advocates on behalf of the coal industry made an appearance in Ashland on Thursday.