Newport News

Mark Hicks, left, is COO and Charlie McGregor is CEO and majority owner of Sterling Print Solutions, the first Northern Kentucky company to join Cincinnati's Minority Business Accelerator.

Jackie Earl "Jack" Clift, 71, of Newport, passed away at 7:30 a.m. on Friday at The Arbors of Marietta.

Emery Dale Cottrill, 82, of Marietta, died Friday at Arbors at Marietta. He was born on July 7, 1929, in Pennsboro, W.Va., to the late Joseph Emery and Olive Elder Cottrill.

That was the charge given to DW Real Estate, the Hyde Park developer hoping to build a multi-story, $100 million hotel and entertainment complex in the middle of the pedestrian-only Purple People Bridge.

While more people plan to drive than fly during the holidays, Christmas weekend travel is up at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.