Owen County News

Most people just call her Miss Della, but after last week she can be called Dr. Jones. Della Jones, Grant County's oldest resident at 105 years young was given an honorary doctorate degree from Kentucky State University.

Sixteen people died in 12 crashes on Kentucky roads last week, state police said.

One man is dead after a motorcycle accident in Owen County, Kentucky. Police say Ernest Sebree, 60, was riding down at steep hill on Beverly Lane just before Noon Saturday when he lost control around a curve and struck two parked vehicles.

Statehouse Republicans will use golf and guns this summer to raise money for their 2010 political campaigns.

Franklin County continues to grow at a slower rate than its six adjacent counties.

An autopsy is scheduled on the kayaker whose remains were recovered Monday, but it could be several weeks before the cause of death is known.

OWENTON - Glenn David Cox, 61, died Wednesday, March 18, at his Owen County farm.

Debris in the Kentucky River has hampered the search now covering more than 15 miles for a kayaker who's been missing for two weeks.

Women are ruling the Oldham County History Center this month. Within the next few weeks, the center will play host to the first woman and American to row across the Atlantic.

James Perkins and his wife, Dawn, co-own Little Hawk Exterminating. Their poster pictures two of the most common pests: ants and termites.

The 'International' in the Greater Cincinnati International Wine Festival is accurate.

Seventh-generation Kentuckian, newspaper columnist and radio commentator Georgia Green Stamper's first book of essays, 'You Can Go Anywhere From the Crossroads of the World,' is elegant in its simplicity -- ...

Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed Carolyn H. Keith to Owen County Judge-Executive, to serve until the next general election on Nov.

Stop signs help traffic move through an intersection where lights are out. Local power companies are hoping extra crews and the patience of customers will help them restore power to thousands of darkened homes ...

At least six people have been found dead in three homes in Kentucky where gasoline or propane was being burned because of power outages, authorities said Friday.

The deaths of at least six people by carbon monoxide poisoning in Kentucky has the state sounded the alarm.

CYNTHIANA - Three people have been found dead in two homes where gasoline or propane were being burned because of power outages, authorities said Friday.

After a peak of nearly 18,000 members without power, Owen Electric crews continue to make progress in restoring electric service throughout Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton, ...

OWENTON - An Owenton man was clinging to life and his ex-wife was dead after a shooting this morning that Kentucky State Police described as an apparent domestic dispute.

The Web site for Owen County - which has Owenton as its county seat - boasts of offering beautiful country living while still being within an hour's drive of three major metropolitan areas: Louisville, ...