Boyle County News

Kentucky's poet laureate is fulfilling a childhood dream by getting behind the wheel of a bookmobile in his hometown.

Danville police, local residents, and family gathered at 2:30 p.m. at Bellevue Cemetery on North First Street to pay respects to late officers John T. Crum and Sgt.

To hear the words "let it burn" is kind of odd when they come from a fire chief, but that's what Danville chief Woody Ball said will happen if many of the agricultural companies were to catch fire.

Boyle County has budgeted to increase its insurance funds out of anticipation premiums might go up in the next fiscal year.

Officer Debbie McCowan of Danville-Boyle County Animal Control said what she found at the residence in Shakerpoint Apartments was a starving 2-year-old terrier mix the neighbors called Dora.

For more than six years, hospital and local officials have lobbied for the improvement of traffic lighting and signage alongside portions of Walnut, Second and Third Streets.

In December 2011, Mercer County mother Sandra Baker was called to school to retrieve her son, Christopher, after the school determined he was out of control.

A special group of Kentucky high school students banded together recently to change the life of a special young lady.

The owner of Happy Stop, a convenience store based out of Springfield, has plans to turn the former log cabin Shell on the corner of East Main Street and Stanford Avenue into Happy Stop II this summer.

The city of Danville's insurance carrier paid to settle a lawsuit filed by former city commissioner Ryan Owens, a settlement the insurance company attempted to keep secret.

Strong programs and great community support are some of the things that work together to make a good library, according to Boyle County Public Library Director Karl Benson.

Editor's Note: This story and photo were contributed by Susan Michael, senior coordinator at Boyle County High School.

To never stop learning is the goal for Eve Kersey, a sixth-grade teacher at King Middle School in Harrodsburg.

Cocanougher Reunion will be Sunday, July 28, 2013 in Perryville By Mike Crain The 38th annual Reunion of The Descendants of Jacob and Neley Silvertooth Cocanougher will be 9am-3pmCT/10am-4pmET, with lunch 12:30pm-1pmET, Sunday July 28, 2013 at The American Legion Hall, 428 W Second Street, Perryville, KY, Perryville KY .

Friday was an emotional night for family and friends as they remembered a loved one found dead after a fire.

A body recovered from a house that burned Tuesday night in Danville is believed to be a woman who lived there, police said.

Jody Lassiter, president and CEO of the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership, xplains Corning's upcoming remediation process to Boyle County Fiscal Court Tuesday morning.

Local firefighters and emergency medical personnel had a busy day with two back-to-back structure fires at a Danville townhouse complex Sunday.

Cat rescue advocate Linda Hudman said when she moved to Kentucky in 1999 she soon saw a dire need to do something about the overcrowded cat population.

When Erin and Jeremy Goldberg of Vinson Road took their 10- and 12-year-olds to Danville's Henry Jackson Park on March 30, they were disappointed by what they found.