Tag: Local News

Covington dispatchers gathered at police headquarters Tuesday afternoon for a goodbye luncheon as the department prepares to turn over control of 911 emergency dispatch operations to Kenton County. Employees at the Covington center will clock in at 6:00PM Saturday and then clock out for the last time twelve hours later at 6:00AM on Sunday. The […]

Dr. Gary Shearer who along with Ron Washington hoped to open a methadone in Covington at the former Save-a-Lot location on Madison Avenue had his medical license suspended by the Commonwealth of Kentucky: The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure suspended Dr. Gary Shearer’s license on Monday pending a formal hearing early next year. His family […]

A fundraiser will be held Tuesday evening at the home of Wayne & Fran Carlisle at Domaine de la Rive in Covington to benefit Democratic state representatives Arnold Simspon (Covington), Dennis Keene (Wilder), Tom McKee (Cynthiana), Royce Adams (Dry Ridge), and Rick Rand (Bedford). House Speaker Greg Stumbo, Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins, Majority Caucus Chair Bob Damron, and Majority Whip […]

  Each week The River City News talks with Kenton County Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders about his weekly e-newsletter that highlights who was sent to prison or got probation in the previous week. At the bottom of this post you can find a link to that newsletter. Here are this week's questions and answers: | […]

"I live here and I loved teaching and you can't love teaching without loving kids and I know that I'm 'mean' and 'everybody hates me' but there needs to be a watchdog group, whether good or bad people get in there," says Jon Ryker of the online forum Fix Covington Schools, a group that materialized […]

Stoney's All Things Princess & Fairy and Chez Nora in Mainstrasse Village will be the beneficiaries of the monthly effort of Cash Mob Northern Kentucky which will encourage its followers to bring at least $20 to the businesses on Saturday. A poll was conducted over the past couple weeks in which people could vote for […]

Paige Johnson has been missing since September 23, 2010 and since then police have logged more than five thousand hours working the case according to Covington Police Chief Spike Jones in a Cincinnati Enquirer article noting the two-year anniversary of the teen's disappearance. The case remains open and a vigil is planned this evening in […]

Though Kentucky voters added an amendment to its Constitution in 2004 forbidding same-sex marriage, poll results show an increase in support across the country for gay nuptials. An interesting new set of data breaks down the entire country right down to small neighborhoods and examines whether those places appear to be more accepting of same-sex […]

The Covington Rotary Club is seeking young professionals (ages 25 – 40) to apply for its four-week long Group Study Exchange which next February will send a few people to Grenoble, France. Aplicants must be employed full-time in any of the counties within Rotary District 6740 which covers the eastern half of Kentucky.  | In […]

Lawyer by day. Political thriller novelist by night. That’s just the kind of tale Northern Kentuckian Rick Robinson might chronicle, but in this case it’s the story of the author himself. Robinson, whose career spans the nitty gritty of Capitol Hill and Cincinnati’s legal community, has turned a nagging passion to write into a second […]