Greenup County News

Carol Rice Allen of Bellefonte has accepted the interim position as Director of Highlands Museum and Discovery Center in Ashland.

"There is no local races that we have except for state representative and the Republican nominee for president has pretty much been decided, before it even gets to us," Greenup County Clerk Pat Hieneman said.

The Greenup County Sheriff's Department conducted a round-up Friday that resulted in five arrests for engaging in organized crime and multiple other charges.

The solar eclipse that took place Sunday evening was an annular eclipse, one in which the moon blocks almost all of the sun.

A one-time corrections officer at the Greenup County Detention Center has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling drugs to inmates.

A one-time corrections officer at the Greenup County Detention Center has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling drugs to inmates.

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Thanks to a grant from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, Greenup County E-911 will be upgrading its communications equipment.

State Rep. Tanya Pullin, Ky-98, says nearly $1 million in upgrades to Ky Route 7 in the South Shore area of Greenup County will be lent by the state Transportation Cabinet this year.

A new license plate that will allow Kentuckians to show support for veterans while also raising funds for veterans' programs and services will be unveiled next week at a ceremony at noon May 14 at the Flatwoods office of the Greenup County Clerk.

Registration is now open for the 35th annual Run By The River, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of East Greenup County.

"It is very unusual for us. We have a quiet town where not a whole lot goes on but when something like this happens you just do the best you can to find out what happened," said Tom Haynes, Flatwoods Police Chief.

Mitchell Royster, 24, charged with murder and arson in the deaths of a man and a woman who died when their mobile home went up in flames nearly three years ago, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday in Greenup Circuit Court.

A pickup truck and a car collidedA on the Kentucky side of the Greenup Dam Bridge at about 2 a.m. Tuesday, according toA Greenup County 911 dispatchers.