Ashland News

Why not parking meters instead of meals tax? I have been a resident of Ashland for more than 25 years and an Ashland business owner for 23 of those years.

Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a commonwealth's attorney for the Cynthiana area and two magistrates in Bracken and Robertson counties.

A group of rising seniors walked through a large room dominated by a metal printing press strung with spools of paper on Tuesday.

A long-time partnership between several organizations will once again help the hungry in our area.

When former Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz performs in Ashland on Friday as part of Summer Motion 2009, he will respect the fans.

The Boyd County Sheriff's Department arrested five on burglary charges Sunday. Three teenage men, a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old Ashland woman were arrested for their suspected roles in nine burglaries in Westwood and Ironville.

There will be no joint Ashland-Boyd County recycling program funded in part with state grant funds.

Golden Arches met pink ribbons on Monday when a local McDonald's owner presented Susan G. Komen for the Cure with a check for $2,427. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a network of breast cancer survivors and activists that raises money for fighting breast cancer through events such as the Race for a Cure.

These are the times that call for frugality in government spending on the state and local level.

The attorney for a man accused of 3 murders in eastern Kentucky says he is stepping down from the case.

The trial of Elliott County Jailer Charles F. Howard continues with expected cross-examination of the woman Howard is accused of raping.

Video by John Flavell/The Independent Thirty-eight volunteer firefighters ran into a burning building Tuesday afternoon - five times.

They say Finnish is the second-hardest language in the world to learn, just after Mandarin Chinese.

The trial is under way for the Elliott County jailer, charged with raping a female inmate he was transporting.

Two free seminars for business owners and managers will be held Wednesday in Ashland.

Four were arrested in the incident. Lacy H. Mills, of the 200 block of 22nd Street, Ronald E. Damron II, of the 3000 block of Central Avenue, David M. Damron, of the 300 block of Blackburn Avenue and Jamie L. Pack of the 4000 block of Powell Street, were charged with theft.

Insurance rates for the City of Ashland are expected to decline 15 percent in the coming fiscal year.

David Blair knows about the effects drug and alcohol abuse can have on young people.

For the first time since World War II, the sale of alcohol soon will be legal in Paintsville.

Three Ashland residents accused of conspiring with one another to smuggle more than $80,000 worth of heroin from Detroit entered guilty pleas in federal court on Monday.