Carter County News

Dozens of area residents have become victims of home burglaries and other thefts in recent weeks.

A copy of a leaked email sent from Democrat Leader Marcus Woodward has some Carter County Democrats disturbed.

There has been "some activity" about the next round of elections in Carter County, according to County Clerk Mike Johnston, who has already filed his own paperwork to seek re-election. Johnston said interest in the county jailer's seat seems to be leading the pack of potential candidates, with four picking up their application forms to campaign for ...

Click below to hear the audio from the Carter County Drug Task Force meeting Oct.

Jill York speaks Tuesday November 3, 2009 during a meeting of Republicans from the 96th House District during a nominating meeting in Grrayson, Kentucky.

Barry Webb is shown after being nominated Monday November 2, 2009 by House District 96 Democrats to run in a December 8 special election during a meeting in Grayson, Kentucky.

Republican leaders from Carter and Lewis counties will meet Tuesday evening in Grayson to select the partyA 1/2s candidate for the 96th District seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Gov. Steve Beshear on Monday scheduled a special election to fill the vacancy in the state House of Representatives that was created when Robin Webb was elected to the Kentucky Senate in August.

Even those who opposed the idea of a public library in Carter County appreciate what they find when they visit the facilities in Grayson and Olive Hill, according to Jussie Minor, library director.

After gaining national attention as the runner up during the first season of "America's Got Talent," the members of clogging group All That will kick up their heels in support of the Olive Hill Historical Society during a Sunday performance at the city's renovated high school building.

Fulfilling decades of Carter County campaign promises, the final layer of pavement will be applied to the "Rock Crusher Curve" project along U.S. 60 near Olive Hill in the days ahead - if weather allows.

Sheriff Kevin "Mooch" McDavid, Magistrate Judy Roark, County Judge Executive Charles Wallace, County Court Clerk Mike Johnston, Magistrate Bill Webb and Magistrate Lovell Carper are pictured with the plaque the county received from the Tri-County Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy during the Prescription Medication Diversion and Abuse ...

On the day his trial was scheduled to start, Isidro Bringas Vasquez, better known as Mexican Dave, made an agreement with the United States and pleaded guilty Oct.

A Morehead man was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Thursday for attempted possession, with intent to distribute, the "club drug" MDMA, also known as Ecstasy.

ASHLAND More than 150 people have registered for Thursday's Prescription Medication Diversion and Abuse Summit sponsored by the Tri-County Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy Local Board.

Buoyed by a second successful competition, the Carter County Skateboarding Association hopes to build momentum toward construction of a public skate park in Grayson.

Looking out from the front porch on their new hillside home, Sarah and Jason Meadows can see the wooded Carter County slopes spread out in front of them.

Boyd County Authorities say a Carter County, Kentucky man was arrested over the weekend on drug trafficking charges.

A new trial date has been scheduled for a West Virginia man accused in the murders of an eastern Kentucky woman and her two daughters.

Carter County, Kentucky Circuit Judge Rebecca Phillips has set a May 4th, 2010 trial date for Robert Drown, a Wayne County man accused of murdering a Hitchins, Ky.