KENTON
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 38— AUGUST 21, 2026
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Driver sentenced to 10 years in Gloria San Miguel’s death released early By Haley Parnell
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he man who pleaded guilty to striking and killing a cyclist in 2022 on the 11th Street Bridge has been released on parole and filed a motion for the return of his belongings, including the truck he was driving when he fatally struck Gloria San Miguel. San Miguel was riding her bike on the 11th Street Bridge between Newport and Covington when Mark Phipps struck and killed her on Aug. 20, 2022. Phipps, 61 at the time, pled guilty in July of that year to second-degree manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, leaving the scene of an accident and driving on a suspended license. hipps was sentenced to 10 years in prison P in 2023, which was the maximum sentence permitted by law; however, according to Campbell County Commonwealth Attorney Michael Zimmerman, a second-degree manslaughter charge at that time had a Continues on page 3
A photo of Gloria San Miguel rests on a memorial table inside the community room of Roebling Books & Coffee in Covington. San Miguel was killed in a hitand-run accident on Aug. 20, 2022. Photo by Kaitlin Gebby | LINK nky
Amazon’s CVG hub celebrates five years as cornerstone of global cargo network By Kenton Hornbeck
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mazon Air is celebrating the fiveyear anniversary of its North American Superhub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, the company’s largest field operations facility on Earth. In 2019, former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a surprise visit to the site for the superhub’s groundbreaking, promising that the forthcoming complex would create 2,000 jobs and cut average Amazon Prime delivery times from two days to one.
Amazon Director of North America, Amazon Air, John Gyllenhammer, speaks at the company’s five year anniversary party for its CVG superhub. Photo by Kenton Hornbeck | LINK nky
Two years later, Amazon Air cut the ribbon on its $1.5 billion cargo facility on the CVG campus in Hebron. Today, the 800,000-square-foot facility has created
more than 4,000 local jobs — double Bezos’ goal — processed more than 1.5 billion packages, and supports more than three dozen daily Prime Air flights. Over 1,300 associates report to Amazon’s CVG campus daily. To commemorate the anniversary, Amazon hosted a celebration for its employees outside the facility on Aug. 5, featuring a cover band, food, games and speeches from executives. Amazon’s director of operations at CVG, Mike Berg, declared that Amazon has invested more than $30 billion in Boone County since the superhub project was announced. “That’s the ripple effect in action, not just
Covington to join class-action lawsuit over firefighter exposure p5 Alexandria considers updated rules for e-bikes, e-scooters p6 Meet your Kenton County Schools superintendent p7
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