Johnson County News

American Standard closed its plant in Johnson County last year, but a legal battle is brewing over the company's refusal to provide severance pay to its former employees.

A number of northeastern Kentucky law-enforcement officers were among those honored Wednesday for having the most drunk-driving arrests in their respective agencies.

Add Johnson County to the list of counties in which a former University of Kentucky basketball player has been charged for running a ticket scam.

State highway officials say the number of deer being removed from local highways after collisions with cars and trucks may be at a record high.

Walmart is helping 10 teachers from Meade Memorial Elementary purchase much-needed classroom supplies through its new Teacher Rewards Program.

" The man killed in a two-car accident along U.S. 23 near Allen earlier this week was mourned in Johnson County and remembered as a devoted man of God.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 18 people across the Big Sandy Region in attempt to get to them undelivered tax refunds or stimulus payments, returned to post offices due to mailing address errors.

The recession apparently isn't having an effect on Kentucky Lottery players in Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Magoffin and Martin counties.

The commonwealth's attorney for Carter, Elliott and Morgan counties, his former assistant and the Morgan County attorney have all been nominated to fill a vacant family court judgeship.

A well-known former basketball coach from Eastern Kentucky has announced that he will run for state representative.

The 31st Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission is scheduled to meet Thursday and select nominees to replace retiring Circuit Judge Danny P. City meeting heated INEZ - Tension was in the air at last Thursday's Inez City Commission meeting, with three of the members voting to go into executive session to discuss personnel and two voting against.

A Lawrence County man charged with killing four people in an April 2008 car crash entered a Kennedy plea Friday in Wayne County, W. Sheriff warns of scam LOUISA - The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office is looking for people who were apparently involved in a blacktop scam and has issued a warning to would-be clients.

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.

It was an overcast Friday, but that's did not stop folks from heading out to the 47th annual Apple Days Festival in Paintsville.

The Floyd County Chamber of Commerce and the Paintsville/ Johnson County Chamber of Commerce are seeking businesses or organizations interested in taking part in a job fair scheduled for October.

The Eighth Annual Small Business Entrepreneur Conference was held Tuesday in Morgan County.

When Dean Hill takes his art out of Appalachia, his admirers are sometimes surprised that the light and color come from Kentucky.

A Johnson County woman who got lost in the woods is found safe. Emergency management directors say 21 year old Kayla Jones was with two men four wheeling in the Van Lear community Monday night when their truck got stuck.

There's a new weather center up and running in Johnson County, the first of its kind in the Big Sandy Region.

One of Kentucky's greatest apple festivals is held the first Saturday of every October in Paintsville, which is in Johnson County, Kentucky.