Mount Sterling News

The saying in Merryville is, "Once you get a taste of the water, you'll never go home." Merryville lies just east of the Sabine River, and water from the river and its tributaries has drawn settlers since American Indians lived in the area.

The murder trial of a Montgomery County woman accused of killing her husband will remain in Rowan County, a judge ruled Monday.

We ended up in Grayson on a misguided mission Monday evening and decided to take advantage of the situation and have dinner at a place I've been hearing good things about for a couple of years.

A thick, laminated, cutting board-type dining table drew a lot of attention at the Bluegrass Green Expo last month in Lexington's Convention Center.

Rowan County Coroner John P. Northcutt and Kentucky State Police Detective Toby Gardner are investigating the death of a 44-year-old Clearfield man.

Dr. Janet Kenney, director of MSU at Mount Sterling, has been honored with the Leadership Award by the Mount Sterling-Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce.

Saturday's Walk for Old Glory at Central Park was an emotional experience for Timi May.

Morehead State Universitya s Department of English and the Kentucky Folk Art Center have announced that novelist Mark Powell, author of a oeProdigals and Blood Kin,a is the recipient of the 2009 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing.

One person died and three others were injured in a crash in Bath County Tuesday afternoon.

Pathways Inc. will break ground at 2:30 p.m. Friday on Hillcrest Hall, a $1.3 million male residential adolescent substance abuse treatment center.

Morehead State University recently held its annual Fall Career Fair. Companies and organizations visited the MSU campus to network with students, alumni, and community members with the hope of finding employees to fill their internships, part time/seasonal and full time positions.

Paul Prather tells forum Jesus neither Democrat or Republican Lexington Herald Columnist, Mt.

Everyone is encouraged to come in from the cold and rock with local and out-of-town music artists during the all-day ReverbShop.com Music Festival slated for Nov.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Lawmakers grilled top state officials Wednesday about a controversial plan for the state to allow up to eight new youth psychiatric hospitals that critics say bypass the customary review process.

Stimulus working for small businesses Seven months in, Recovery Act puts over $12 billion in hands of small businesses Last October, small businesses were hit by a worsening economy that resulted in frozen credit lines and diminished access to capital.

I recently read in The Journal that Middfest attendance was down due to the economy and the bad weather.

" Tomorrow afternoon, longtime Floyd Circuit Court Judge Danny P. Caudill will retire during a ceremony in his honor at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park's May Lodge.

A federal judge has released from jail a nurse charged in the death of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center patient.

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Several factors including staffing shortages and a lack of communication may have contributed to a higher-than-expected mortality rate among critically ill patients at a Kentucky veterans hospital.