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- Covington Police Search For Double-Shooting Suspect
Covington police are searching for a man in connection with a double shooting last week.
- Covington community meeting set
The South Covington Community Action Association will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hands Pike Firehouse, 1255 Hands Pike.
- Kids Join The Circus
Both classes are high energy, fun ways to get your child moving. In a noncompetitive environment, beginning students learn to walk on stilts, balance on the rola bola and the rolling globe.
- 2-Year Old Shot In Neck
We're learning more about the shooting in Northern Kentucky that injured a 2-year old girl.
- Teen Winter Blast At Library
The Kenton County Public Library will host the Teen Winter Blast at the Mary Ann Mongan Library, 502 Scott Blvd., in Covington, Friday, Jan.
- Tasing victim's mother files suit
COVINGTON, Ky. - Ruby Sheffey has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of her son, who died in police custody in early December after being shocked by Tasers.
- 1 dead, 3 wounded in New Year's violence
The new year had a violent beginning in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky with one man shot dead in Queensgate, two others shot in Covington and a stabbing in Boone County.
- N.Ky. Parents Complete Leadership Training
Twenty-eight parents from the Northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and Pendleton took part in the Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, an initiative of the Prichard ...
- Man pleads not guilty to rape 14 years ago
COVINGTON - A 44-year-old Mount Orab, Ohio, man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting a woman 14 years ago.
- DNA cracks cold rape case
It will have been 14 years, two months and 23 days since a woman was brutally raped on Oakland Avenue when John Wesley Mann walks into Kenton Circuit Court Tuesday to face charges he was one of the rapists.
- Home builders generous in '08
ERLANGER - The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky contributed about $180,000 to the community this year.
- DUI arrests commended
FRANKFORT - Dozens of local law enforcement officers were among 183 from across the state honored at the 2008 Governor's Impaired Driving Enforcement Awards this month.
- Two sought after robbery, shooting
Police are in pursuit of two suspects who robbed a store and shot at police, Cincinnati police said.
- Families Forced To Leave Children At Homeless Shelter
While many of you may be wrapping presents for your children and loved ones, sadly some Tri-State parents are forced to do the unthinkable.
- Covington offers Rx cards
Some things in life, it turns out, can actually be free. Starting in early 2009, all Covington residents will be entitled to obtain a Caremark prescription drug card that will give them 20 percent off their ...
- Roeding exits as N.Ky. champion
FLORENCE - It was early 1990 and Dick Roeding was leaving Blessed Sacrament church in Fort Mitchell when a friend active in the Republican Party posed a question.
- Housing project talks halt
COVINGTON - Northern Kentucky's largest city and its housing authority have put a hold on some contentious meetings that were intended to help determine the future of the Jacob Price public housing project ...
- Ernst & Young Give Back To N.Ky. Students
On Friday, more than 400 students picked out a book for free. Local employees chose to give up their holiday party and in turn donate the money to those in need for the holiday.
- Doctor indicted on sex charges
A Northern Kentucky physician has been indicted on federal charges that he traded drugs for money, sex and pornography.
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City DescriptionCovington is a city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 43,370; it is the fifth-most-populous city in Kentucky . It is one of two county seats of Kenton County. Covington is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking Rivers. Covington is part of the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area and is separated from Cincinnati by the Ohio River and from Newport by the Licking River. Covington is located within the Upland South region of the United States of America; it is also acknowledged as a Midwestern city.
In 1814, John Gano, Richard Gano, and Thomas Carneal purchased 150 acres (0.6 km) on the west side of the Licking River at its confluence with the Ohio River, referred to as "the Point," from Thomas Kennedy for $50,000. The men named their new riverfront enterprise the "Covington Company," in honor of their friend, General Leonard Covington, an American officer who once trained troops in the area and was killed in the War of 1812.
The investors prepared a plat for the new city that was approximately five blocks wide by five blocks deep. The platted streets lined up with the streets of Cincinnati across the Ohio ... Read MoreCity Contained By:City Contains:- Gateway Community and Technical College
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