Campbell County News

The third day of his trial for attempted murder started off unusually for Mark Padgett Friday morning.

The Campbell County Democratic Party Chairman has resigned... a day after police revealed they searched his Fort Thomas home.

A Fort Thomas man could spend 20 years in prison after being convicted of trying to kill his ex-wife. A Campbell County jury on Monday found Mark Padgett guilty of attempted manslaughter and assault.

More than two dozen men have been arrested in three Internet sex stings in Kentucky with help from a watchdog group that tracks online predators.

People requesting tree exams to determine the health of their trees have spiked at the Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service's office because of the impact of last summer's drought.

NEWPORT - An inmate who escaped from the Campbell County jail last month still has not been found, but inmates who remain in the detention center are less likely to escape, officials said.

State investigators have released a reconstruction of what a child found dead 23 years ago looked like.

Backers of the move to prohibit smoking in most Northern Kentucky public places don't have the votes needed to pass the ordinances at the county fiscal court level.

Virgil Miller has been awarded "Mechanic of the Year" honors by the state for his role in keeping the wheels of Campbell County Schools' bus fleet going round and round safely.

FORT THOMAS - Top Democrats from around the state and the region are scheduled to attend a July 17 fundraiser in Fort Thomas for Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford.

The five fastest-growing areas of Northern Kentucky from 2006 to 2007, according to the U.S. Census: Independence , up 4.4 percent.

Two young boys reported missing Tuesday afternoon, near the 7500 block of Alexandria, have been found.

Several local organizations have received Kentucky Arts Partnership Grants from the Kentucky Arts Council.

FORT THOMAS - Mixed in with all the wonderful regulars at this year's Fort Thomas Fourth of July parade was someone you don't typically see parading through the streets of town.

COVINGTON - Gov. Steve Beshear's victory lap over winning passage of pension reform in last week's special General Assembly session includes a scheduled stop in Covington.

A Kenton County man had to prove that he was no longer capable of fathering children, after he pled guilty of incest with his sister, resulting in two children.

NEWPORT - Mark Padgett appeared in Campbell County Circuit Court on Monday without the cardboard glasses he wore during a court appearance last year.

NORTHERN KENTUCKY - The Northern Kentucky Drug Strike force arrested three people and seized nearly 30 pounds of marijuana in two raids this month.

A pregnant Kentucky soldier was found dead in a North Carolina motel, now investigators say her death is suspicious.

A wildfire has briefly slowed traffic on Interstate 75 near the Kentucky border.