Jamesd Keaton News Today

IRONTON — A South Point area man was sentenced to five to seven-and-a-half years in prison earlier this year in a drug trafficking case in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

IRONTON — A May 6 trial date was set earlier this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court for an Ironton man charged with rape and other related charges.

IRONTON — A Greenup, Kentucky, woman was sentenced to two years in prison in a drug case Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

Local jail lockups were a bit light over the weekend — golly gee, do you wonder why? With last week’s historic ice storm rolling through northeastern Kentucky and wreaking havoc on the area roadways, it appears not a whole lot of people wound up in jail over the weekend. That’s not to say police haven’t been doing their jobs in less than stellar conditions — as Ashland Police Chief Todd Kelley pointed out last week, law enforcement doesn’t cease because of a little...