Owensboro News

Plantation Inn owner Jeff Blackstone was all riled up last week. He had to fire a longtime employee who was caught stealing from the company.

Mayor Ron Payne will recommend Tuesday to the Owensboro City Commission that the city stop paying dues to the Kentucky League of Cities and look for insurance carriers other than the League for the city's property and liability insurance.

A defunct western Kentucky hotel that was once a popular entertainment venue where famous acts performed has been given a reprieve from demolition, but only a temporary one.

One person died Saturday night after an accident in Daviess County. It happened early Saturday morning on Kentucky 144 near Reid Road.

Sunday worships for the River City Church meet at 3300 Frederica, but not for long, because they're moving.

They come in all shapes and sizes. But not all are legal in Kentucky. For some, setting prohibited fireworks off is not a big deal.

Thieves made off with flat screen TV's, scanners and other electronics from an Owensboro business, but this wasn't a typical smash and grab burglary.

Cole Wedding's Eagle Scout project is no small undertaking. The 15-year-old Boy Scout, a sophomore-to-be at Daviess County High School, intends to take donated medical equipment - such as wheelchairs, walkers and canes - from seven counties, refurbish and clean them, then distribute them to people in need.

A new regional airline will begin low-cost flights out of Owensboro to Nashville, Tenn., later this summer.

Update as of 6/22/2009 at 5:53 p.m. The company that employed the worker killed is now reacting to his death.

From a press release issued by Suzy Hayden, For Ethan Gillim's "Chasin A Dream" Program FIRST PERSON/OPINION Via e-mail: Young gun Peter Lenz survives... After reading about the June 4th wreck at Portland Internatioanl Raceway involving 12 year old Peter Lenz we are SOOOO glad that Impact Safe-T Armor and the Ethan Gillim's "Chasin a Dream" Program ...

From left, Stephanie Marie Lynn, Brianna Abel and Cory Buffaloe practice 'Death by Darkness.' Phopto: Jan Rhodes.

Roger Sprung: Newtown's Own - Pioneer of Bluegrass' By Nancy K. Crevier Roger Sprung demonstrates his easy teaching style of strumming and humming while at The Newtown Bee on June 8. Mr Sprung has introduced over 3,000 students to the joys of music and continues to perform and learn at festivals and private parties up and down the East Coast.

OWENSBORO, Ky. - Danny Falloway grew up in the auto salvage business. His father, Delbert, opened Falloway Auto Parts on Bluff Avenue around 1947, when Danny Falloway was a baby.

Marianne Kimmel was traveling southbound on US 431, approximately four-miles north of Livermore, KY.

Millard R Martin Jr, driving a 2000 Freightliner, was exiting the US 60 Bypass onto the north bound lane of the Natcher.

A small airline is hoping to offer flights from western Kentucky to two locations starting at the end of the summer.

Pitchers Tyler Blandford, Tyler Lyons and Thomas Keeling and outfielders Neil Medchill and Micheal Dabbs each had their names called during Wednesday's draft proceedings, bringing OSU's two-day total of draftees to six.

Burgers, buns and busy workers. 12 cafeteria employees from Owensboro Public Schools start work on thousands of meals as early as 5 AM for the Summer Feeding Program.

Actor, director, musician. Born John Christopher Depp, Jr. in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to parents John and Betty Sue Depp.