Webster County News

Two bridges will be closed in Webster County starting Friday, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced.

Madisonville, KY - The Kentucky State Police report two people were injured in a single vehicle accident Sunday afternoon.

Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis is in charge of arrangements. Billy C. Alderson Services for Billy C. Alderson, 78, Providence, who died Saturday, will be at 11 a.m. today at Townsend, Jones and Erdman Funeral Home in Providence.

After an absence of some 10 years, there's a sliver of a possibility that scheduled intercity bus service could return to Henderson.

On April 28, 2009, the Kentucky State Police received a call from the Webster County Sheriff's Department, in reference to a death investigation.

The four-day Ohio Valley Birding Festival starts today and runs through Sunday at both John James Audubon State Park in Henderson and Wesselman Woods Nature Center in Evansville.

Seventy young and at-risk people in the Tri-county will have jobs this summer because of the federal economic stimulus program, according to the Green River Area Development District.

A good portion of Webster County's eighth-graders exceeded state averages and at least met national averages on a newer set of state-mandated tests in math, English, reading and science.

By Gleaner Staff Originally published 10:28 a.m., March 5, 2009 Updated 10:28 a.m., March 5, 2009 A Webster County man has been indicted in the deaths of two Morganfield residents, who were killed last August ...

Four men are indicted on drug trafficking charges following a six month investigation in Webster County.

Kentucky could generate more than $4.5 million a year if it sold alcoholic beverages at its state parks, says a study officials presented Wednesday to a House committee that approved a bill allowing the sales.

Both the shelters, and the amount of people staying in them, seem to be shrinking in Henderson and Webster counties.

Update Tuesday 8:50 p.m.: KENTUCKY - In Owensboro, regular trash collection resumed this week.

Twenty-seven deaths have been attributed to storm-related causes around Kentucky, with details and dates where available: -Jefferson County: 4 - a 55-year-old man on Jan.

Poole volunteer fireman Joey Tapp with his son Blake, 4 years-old, hand some MRE food packets to Poole resident Helen Blanford while doing welfare checks on residents in the area.

Widespread power outages are giving many Western Kentucky students nearly two weeks off school.

Thousands are also still without power Tuesday night in Webster County. We talked to residents there to find out how they are dealing with the cold and the dark.

City Hall. Churches. The Integra Bank. Andy Delamar's restaurant. J.V. Townsend's Store.

The winter storm has caused anogther boil advisory; this time in Webster County.

Following the layoffs of more than 400 workers at the Rayloc auto parts plant at Morganfield, Union County's unemployment rate has doubled and now ranks as the eighth-highest in Kentucky, according to the ...