It’s taken three shots for the Thomas More men’s basketball team to finally make it to Kansas City for the NAIA National Basketball Championships. Covid blocked the Saints on their first try after qualifying for the trip when the championships were canceled. Then a year ago even after getting to host the regionals, Thomas More […]
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Emergency repair of Brent Spence Bridge in 2020 receives two more awards
The rapid repair of the Brent Spence Bridge following a fiery crash involving two semi trucks in November 2020 leading to a six-week closure has received two more awards. The aging and structurally obsolete span connects Covington and Cincinnati by way of Interstates 71 and 75. Its closure in the fall of 2020 disrupted local […]
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CovCath will have to come from the bottom at Sweet 16
Scott Ruthsatz has one goal every season. Win a state championship for his Covington Catholic Colonels. For a Ninth Region and a Northern Kentucky that didn’t win one for 64 years until Simon Kenton did in 1981, that’s some out-of-the-box thinking. But for Ruthsatz, and his Colonels who will head off to Rupp Arena Thursday […]
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Dan Weber: NAIA knows the Saints are coming
When Thomas More decided to leave the NCAA for the NAIA several years ago, they didn’t change their approach to women’s basketball. After dominating the NCAA’s Division III with a pair of national championships in the last seven seasons, a Thomas More’s women are headed west again for the second straight year — and this […]
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Two juveniles found in basement amid overnight house fire in Walton; 16-year-old Ignite student has died
A 16-year-old male died in a house fire in the early morning hours on Wednesday in Walton. Fire and EMS units responded to “a one-alarm structure fire” just before 1:40 a.m. Wednesday at the 200 block of Maher Road, according to a press release from the Florence Fire Department. Two juveniles were trapped in the […]
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DBL Law announces new partners
DBL Law recently named attorneys Aaron Caskey and Colleen Fausz as partners to the law firm, according to a press release received on Tuesday.
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Mike’s Carwash set to open on Dixie Highway in Erlanger this fall
Mike’s Carwash is opening its third Northern Kentucky location on Dixie Highway in Erlanger this fall. Company leaders joined officials from Erlanger Tuesday for a groundbreaking of the new location, which will be on the site of the former Shoe Palace building just south of Kenton Lands Road. “Northern Kentucky is a vibrant, rapidly-expanding area […]
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Duke Energy gives $150K to local STEM programs
Three organizations in Northern Kentucky are receiving a combined $45,000 for STEM and environmental education from the Duke Energy Foundation.
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Thomas More goes 2 for 2 on the way to the NAIA nationals
Say goodbye – and good luck – to the nationally ranked Saints. They’re off to the shores of the mighty Missouri. For the Thomas More women, with two NCAA basketball championships in the past decade, it’s a return trip to Sioux City, Iowa, for the NAIA 16-team national championships. For the TMU men, it took […]
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Thomas More men and women advance in NAIA basketball tournament
As expected, host Thomas More’s two top-seeded teams will play another day in the NAIA Men’s and Women’s first-round regional basketball tournaments Saturday for the right to move on to the 16-team national finals next week in Kansas City and Sioux City, Iowa, respectively. But while the No. 3 nationally ranked women, as expected, had […]
