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Monday, March 3, 2014

A Union man was killed in an accident on his own property Tuesday.

Boone County sheriff's deputies were called to the 12000 block of Big Oak Road late Tuesday after a friend of the man living there went to check on his well-being after no one had heard from him since 10 a.m.

But the friend arrived to find the house open with no one around.

Deputies soon found Walter Boyd, 75, inside a pickup overturned in a creek near his home.

Date: 
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Two people were airlifted to UC Medical Center after a frightening accident on Interstate 75 on Monday.

The Boone Co. Sheriff's Office said a truck was northbound in the center lane near Walton just before 7 p.m. when the truck moved into the left lane, forcing a car in that lane into the median wall before ending up under the truck's trailer.

Firefighters put the trailer's wheels on blocks and were able to cut a door off the car to extricate both patients, Christopher York, 33, of Verona, and Anna Speier, 44, of Bromley.

Date: 
Monday, November 25, 2013
A woman was killed in a single-car crash in Boone County on Tuesday morning. The Boone County Sheriff's Office said the woman was driving in the 16000 block of Lebanon-Crittenden Road south of Verona just before 8 a.m. when she lost control of her car in a curve. Deputies said the driver overcorrected, ran off the road and struck a tree on the driver's side. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Her name has not yet been released. Deputies are continuing to investigate the crash and have not said it if was weather-related.