Berea News

A letter was sent home Tuesday with Shannon Johnson Elementary School students to inform parents that officials are investigating a potential case of whooping cough.

Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.

Several people around the community are working hard to prepare meals for Thanksgiving Day, but the meals are not for them or their families.

A Madison County grand jury will hear the case against a Berea man accused of raping and sexually abusing two children younger than 12.

Charges against a Berea man accused of abusing an 82-year-old woman were amended Wednesday to fourth-degree assault.

Based on the reported bruises on her throat and other evidence, Berea police charged a man Tuesday, Nov.

Food pantries facing double whammy of greater need, fewer donors RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- While economic indicators continue to tumble, the number of people turning to parish food pantries continues to climb.

Eastern Kentucky University senior Josh Woodie of Dayton, Ohio, plays Cliff Bradshaw, an American in Berlin, and senior Lauren McCombs of Louisville is his girlfriend Sally Bowles during a rehearsal Tuesday ...

With an anxious eye toward a shaky national economy, the Berea City Council took the first step Tuesday night toward keeping ad valorem tax rates at their current level.

Police are looking for the person who turned the Berea Dairy Queen drive-thru into a break-in. The restaurant was broken into Saturday between 3 and 5 a.m. with the drive-thru window being the point of entry, ...

Progressive Systems, a Berea plant that manufactured robotic welding equipment, closed Friday, putting 22 people out of work.

The St. Joseph-Berea hospital campus will go smoke free next Thursday. "No tobacco use of any kind will be permitted - inside or outside - on our property," according to hospital President Greg Gerard.

The Berea College Board of Trustees adopted resolutions to name two college centers after two individuals whose distinguished careers and notable accomplishments have earned such recognition.

A 34-year-old Richmond man died shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday when a 1997 Jeep in which he was riding ran off Big Hill Road east of Berea and struck several trees.

Student volunteers in Berea College's Habitat for Humanity chapter learned firsthand Tuesday evening that their work on Habitat homes makes a huge difference.

A man who police say transported hundreds of Oxycontin pills into Madison County from Michigan has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

One person is dead and another injured following a single vehicle accident on KY 21E.

Police say a Richmond couple was assaulted Monday when a trio of alleged burglars showed up on their doorstep.