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messenger-inquirer
April 24, 2018
Owensboro Public Schools has been awarded a $631,250 Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant that will be dispersed over two years. ... and according to a KDE release, this project will serve 200,000 children and students, 14,000 Kentucky teachers and other early learning specialists at 600Ãâà...
messenger-inquirer
April 24, 2018
The Owensboro Police Department is hoping to make a major advancement in how it documents crime and accident scenes by purchasing a laser scanner with a grant from ... The technology is still somewhat new in Kentucky and is only being used by three agencies, including the Kentucky State Police.
14 News WFIE Evansville
April 24, 2018
... summer break just really gets to us that we know that children are out there not getting what they need. So we are more than happy to go out and do this and put in the extra effort and work." If you would like to request a site for meal distribution this summer, contact Owensboro or Daviess County schools.
Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era
April 21, 2018
The Owensboro City Commission has delayed any action on a mobile food vending ordinance that would have repealed the city's four-year old provision limiting food trucks from parking anywhere within 100 feet of brick-and-mortar restaurants. Commissioners unanimously approved a measure removingÃâà...
14 News WFIE Evansville
April 5, 2018
A Kentucky boy with a brain injury is finding relief in an unusual kind of therapy: floating. Now, his parents are bringing this therapy to western Kentucky in the hopes it might help others. You never know what journey your life will take. Three years ago, a babysitter shook 7-month-old Jansen Lewis soÃâà...
The River City News
March 27, 2018
A family business operated in Northern Kentucky since 1955 has been sold. Florence-based Harper Oil Products, Inc. and Harper Properties, Inc. were sold to Owensboro-based Valor Oil, the companies announced Monday. The sale is effective April 1. “We at Valor Oil can't tell you how excited we are toÃâà...
Tristatehomepage.com
March 26, 2018
On Friday, Kentucky State Police troopers executed a search warrant in the 3000 block of Shelly Drive in Owensboro, where they say they located methamphetamine, marijuana, and various other illegal drugs. Police say 26-year-old Ryan McNary of Owensboro was arrested and charged with Trafficking inÃâà...
Evansville Courier & Press
March 9, 2018
Burlew was owner of the Kentucky Electric Lamp company, later Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Co., which manufactured things like light bulbs and radio tubes. ..... By the time all was said and done, Ken-Rad had plants in Owensboro and Bowling Green, Ky., and Tell City, Rockport and Huntingburg, Ind.
WTHR
March 1, 2018
... Ky. (WTHR) - Help truly came from above for hungry workers at a flooded Kentucky plant. Blocked in by floodwaters for two days, the employees at Kimberly Clark in Owensboro couldn't even get lunch delivered due to the water. That's when Stuart Snow stepped up to save the day. The Owensboro nativeÃâà...
14 News WFIE Evansville
February 28, 2018
In Owensboro, one man is in the hospital with a gunshot wound, and police tell us they are looking for the suspect. We're told the shooting happened around 9 p.m. in the 2100 block of McFarland Avenue. Police say the victim was shot in the shoulder. Authorities say he was conscious and breathing andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 25, 2018
A crowd of onlookers take photographs of the rising level of the Ohio River as it encroaches the barrier wall at Smothers Park on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in Owensboro, Ky. Forecasters warned people living along rivers, streams and creeks in southern Ohio, southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky toÃâà...
Tristatehomepage.com
February 23, 2018
Firefighters assisted at least one person on Millers Mill Road east of Owensboro. "You could have easily a quarter mile to a half mile of this road submerged at any time, especially when heavy rains hit. It can submerge very quickly because the ditches are already full on each side of the road," says Asst.
The Lane Report
December 31, 1999
OWENSBORO, Ky. (April 19, 2018) — Matt Willis has been named the new banking center manager at First Security Bank. He will manage the downtown branch in Owensboro located at 313 Frederica Street. “I am very excited to have Matt join the First Security Team,”said Krista Niehaus, seniorÃâà...
Tristatehomepage.com
December 31, 1999
Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear was promoting the state's opioid disposal program in western Kentucky on Monday. Beshear met with seniors at the Munday Activity Center in Owensboro, where hundreds of pouches used to dispose unused prescriptions were handed out. Up to 45 pills or sixÃâà...
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