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Austin Johnson, The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky. September 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM Bentley Braxton Holbrook, 8 years old, was a first-grade student at Crabbe Elementary School.
Metcalf's body was found Feb. 4 in the 1000 block of East 9th Street in Ashland, which is near the intersection with Cleveland Avenue. The man had died 1.3 miles from his home, according to the ...
Aug. 6—CANNONSBURG — An Ashland man has died after a one-vehicle wreck in Boyd County on Saturday. Marvin (Sean) Hogsten, 51, has died, according to Boyd County Coroner Mark Hammond.
The Daily Independent (also known as The Independent Weekend Edition and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015) is a morning newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. Previously published daily, the print schedule was reduced to five days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays ...
John Means (September 21, 1829 – February 14, 1910) was a mayor of Ashland, Kentucky and a leader in the banking and iron industries. [1] He helped organize the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company, laid out Ashland Cemetery, [2] built furnaces, served as vice-president of the Ashland National Bank, and he served then led the growing iron business of the Means family.
The Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster occurred February 28 barely two months after Blazer's acceptance of the Ashland School Board's request to name the new high school after him. 26 school children and the bus driver died when a school bus plunged into the Big Sandy River outside of nearby Prestonsburg, KY. At the time, it was the deadliest ...
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Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.