Boyle County News

The Adair County Marching Band is heading to the Kentucky Music Educators Association State semi-finals and finals competition for their 24th appearance in the KMEA State Championship competition.

Adair, Russell and Boyle County make it to State band finals With Shamarie Claiborne update from on the road Jo Ann Curry has just written at 3:21pmCT, that Adair County, Russell County, and Boyle County have all made it to the State Finals of the KMEA Kentucky State Marching Band Championships in Louisvllle.

The Adair County Marching Band is heading to the state competition once again, after taking first place at the Kentucky Music Educators Association Class AAA Western Regional Competition last Saturday in Bowling Green.

A Las Vegas man was sentenced Monday to more than 20 years in prison for his role in the sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl in Boyle County, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

A federal judge in Lexington has sentenced a Las Vegas man to more than 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl.

There are plenty of unanswered questions surrounding the weekend fire death of 70-year-old Howard Watts.

A fire in Danville has killed a 70-year-old man. Boyle County Coroner James Ramey said Howard Watts was sitting at his kitchen table when fire broke out in his duplex Sunday night.

Second-ranked Sacred Heart - trying for its third straight state soccer title - will make its fourth consecutive appearance in the final four after a 2-1 victory over visiting Manual on Thursday in the Section Two final.

A man was arrested in Boyle County Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly fired shots at a U.S. postal truck as it drove away from his residence.

The locks on some prison doors at Northpoint Training Center near Danville were substandard, allowing inmates to burst through them during an Aug.

A woman was injured after falling from a second story window at a popular Boyle County haunted house Thursday night.

A Kentucky prosecutor says that more than 100 inmates will be criminally charged for their role in an August 21 riot.

We're learning more about the possible causes of a massive prison riot at Northpoint Training Center this past August in Boyle County.

Surveys of Kentucky's prison inmates indicate they are less pleased with the food they're served than they were a few years ago.

Plans to rebuild a central Kentucky prison destroyed in a riot are progessing. State officials hired Lexington-based GRW Engineers to oversee the design of Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County.

A new makeshift kitchen will be used at the Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County.

Four former firefighters from central Kentucky have been charged with arson after a series of fires at barns and abandoned buildings in the last two years.

Plans are underway to rebuild a Kentucky prison, heavily damaged in a riot. The state plans to have a decision by next week on who will rebuild the Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County.

A grieving Boyle County family is getting some help from an unlikely source--a local salon.

Hopkins County, KY Families of state prison inmates, prison employees and inmates themselves are not happy with the quality or quantity of prison food, says State Rep.