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'Never meant for someone to get hurt': Man sentenced for distributing fentanyl at NKY jail
A former inmate at the Campbell County Detention Center will spend decades in prison for smuggling fentanyl into the jail, causing the overdoses of two others in custody there. Jonathan Stanley, 40, was sentenced in federal court in Covington on Thursday to 22 years in prison. That sentence, handed down...
NKY welcomes more police social workers with opioid abatement funds
Kelly Pompilio, the social worker embedded with Alexandria’s Police Department, starts every morning going through stacks of reports from officers. “Some of them will say, ‘Police social worker, please follow up,'” Pompilio said. “In some of them, I just kind of sift through and see what is social service in nature.”
'He's all about the program and the team.' NFHS honors Western Brown's Hunter McKinzie
The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced that Western Brown senior Hunter McKinzie is a recipient of the National Federation of High School's Spirit of Sport Award, the first time since 2020 that an Ohio athlete has earned the honor. McKinzie was diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a sophomore but returned...
Housing needs revealed in Northern Kentucky data walks
Northern Kentucky organizations are holding data walks across the region to help form a community-driven housing strategy. The data walk consists of poster stations with information from the Northern Kentucky Area Development District’s housing study released last year. The study was conducted on housing needs and workforce across Campbell, Kenton, Boone, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen and Pendleton counties. The data walks aim to share information from the study with the communities they are hosted in.
Ross County – One Person Dies in Rollover Crash on US-23
Chillicothe – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single-vehicle crash that resulted in a fatality on US 23 at State Route 207. On June 7, 2024, at approximately 1355 hours, a 2005 Honda Pilot driven by Alexander Pollard, age 22 of West Union, Ohio and his passenger Nicholas Fisher, age 23 of Peebles, Ohio was traveling south on US 23. Their vehicle traveled off the left side of the roadway, through the median, and traveled into the north bound lanes of US 23. The vehicle began to overturn ejecting Alexander Pollard. It continued off the left side of the roadway where it came to rest under the State Route 207 overpass. Mr. Pollard succumbed to his injuries as a result of the crash. Mr. Fisher was transported to Adena Regional Medical Center by Union Township Emergency Medical Services for serious injuries. US 23 was shut down for approximately 3 hours.
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