Tickets for the Cincinnati St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway are on sale now. Only 14,000 tickets will be available for $100 each, with 100% of the proceeds supporting the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This year’s home, valued at $490,000, is in Union in the master-plan community of Ballyshannon. The two-story home features four […]
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NKY physician convicted of health care fraud, acquitted on drug charges
Barbara Works went to the Northern Kentucky Center for Pain Relief looking for something to help with her chronic pain. On March 27, 2017, according to Boone County circuit court documents, Works was prescribed 120 capsules of Oxycodone. Thirty-six days later, on May 2, 2017, she was prescribed another 120 capsules. On May 24, works […]
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DHL workers demonstrate for right to join union: ‘They have stomped on our rights’
DHL ramp and tug workers gathered Tuesday to ask that DHL Express and its Germany-based parent company, Duetsche Post DHL Group, respect U.S. laws that govern workers’ rights to form unions. In an attempt to gather at DHL-CVG Tuesday, workers from DHL, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Interfaith Workers Center and Wesley United Methodist Church were […]
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Missing 18-year-old Union woman found
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office announced that 18-year-old Ally G. Hopper of Union was safely located.
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Grants given to NKY cities for infrastructure improvement
Some Northern Kentucky cities recently received grants to help fund various programs and services intended to reduce liability and make the community safer. These grants, known as Liability Grants, were presented by the Kentucky League of Cities and will be utilized in different ways by each city. Union will be using their money to repair […]
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Covington preparing to fine, penalize unlicensed short-term rental units within city limits
The Covington City Commission has been critical of unlicensed short-term rentals in the past. Now, they are preparing to consider legislation against them at next Tuesday’s commission meeting. Covington is proposing to levy fines and penalties against the operators of unlicensed short-term rentals, which include a daily fine of $500 to $1,000, a one-year ban […]
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Boone County’s freshmen representatives get committee assignments
Last week, The Kentucky House of Representatives named its committee assignments, and Boone County’s two new representatives received their assignments. Rep. Steve Rawlings (R-Burlington) and Rep. Marianne Proctor (R-Union) will serve on three committees during the 2023 legislative session. Rawlings will serve on the House Judiciary, House State Government, and House Education committees. “I am […]
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Community mourns former Red Tom Browning, ‘affectionately called Mr. Perfect’
The Reds are mourning the former player they affectionally called ‘Mr. Perfect’ after the Boone County Sheriff’s Office announced Tom Browning was found unresponsive at his Union home on Monday. He was 62. Browning was an All-Star pitcher who threw the only perfect game in Cincinnati Reds history and helped them win a World Series […]
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Crews from across Boone County called to Florence apartment fire
A Saturday night fire at a Florence apartment complex required the Florence Fire Department to call in crews from Union, Burlington and Independence to help put out the flames, the department shared on their Facebook page. The fire began on the top floor of the apartment building on Palladian Drive — additional crews helped to […]
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Amazon workers at CVG hub seek to unionize
A group of Amazon staff at a Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport hub has started to organize a labor union, seeking at least $30 per hour and other benefits. Amazon’s national average pay for most jobs is more than $19 per hour. Through their website, the workers are also asking for 180 hours of paid time […]
