Tag: Local News

From 1895 to 1919 one of the largest amusement parks in the nation operated in tiny Ludlow, Kentucky. The Ludlow Lagoon will be celebrated with a historical retrospective on Wednesday night from 7:00PM – 9:00PM at Circus Mojo (222-6 Elm Street, Ludlow). The event will feature a 3-D computer animation of the buildings as they […]

160 workers evacuated from Covington food processing plant; No arrests yet but a reward is offered in possible Covington arson case; The Holmes High School Band played on even after its bus breaks down; These are your top headlines for Monday morning, September 10. | Workers evacuated after ammonia leak at South Covington food processing […]

  The Democratic and Republican Representatives on the Kenton County Board of Elections are looking for poll workers for the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012. A poll worker must be 18 years of age or older, reside in Kenton County and be a registered voter in Kenton County on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th.  […]

A fight between girls in Covington's Eastside neighborhood was the catalyst for a series of events that ended with a man shot. This week, the shooter and his accomplice received their punishments in Kenton County Circuit Court. Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders weaves the tale: On June 23, 2011, at 6:30 p.m., Covington Police Officer Ryan Eldridge […]

The late addition of resident-only parking on six blocks in Mainstrasse Village during this weekend's Oktoberfest celebration forced the City of Covington staff to react quickly to the call. During Tuesday night's City Commission meeting, Commissioner Shawn Masters proposed the new rule as the meeting was about to end and it passed unanimously. On Wednesday, […]

Mainstrasse Village will add another destination to its booming menu of restaurants just in time for its largest annual festival, Oktoberfest. Piper's is an ambitious cafe that hopes to anchor a new concept called Hamelin Square at the northeast corner of Sixth and Philadelphia Streets. Part internet cafe, part business center, part art gallery, and […]

In this week's mugshot round-up, Kenton County Prosecutor Rob Sanders weighs in on what was quite a busy week and answers a couple more questions about the long list of people sent away to prison, put on probation, or who skipped out on court last week.    RCN: Looks like 37 convictions last week which […]

Rebecca Volpe will be leaving the City of Covington's community development department where she has served as busisness recruitment and retention specialist. Her resignation will be accepted at Tuesday's Covington City Commission meeting. Volpe is moving on to work at Northern Kentucky University where she will lead the Small Business Development Center. NKU sent out […]

As a result of the changes in this landscape, we are making a big change to our nightly drawing program. Starting in the next few weeks, we will no longer be airing our drawing on broadcast TV stations. Instead, drawings will be streamed live and archived on the Kentucky Lottery’s website.