BURLINGTON, KY (FOX19) - Statistics from the Kentucky State Police indicate that Northern Kentucky is a dangerous place to be a deer, and perhaps to drive a car. 

Boone County leads the state with an average of 153 a year between 2006 and 2010, and Campbell and Kenton Counties are also in the top 10. 

Those counties offer a dangerous combination: lots of deer, plus lots of people driving cars on highways. 

State maps show many of Boone County's vehicle-deer crashes happened along I-75 and 275, both highways with lots of traffic and many wooded areas next to the roadway. 

Deer take cover in wooded areas, and there are more wooded areas on hills, since they are harder for people to develop.  In Mason County, the vast majority of crashes happened on the hills surrounding Maysville, with many fewer in the flatter southern part of the county.  In Fort Wright and neighboring cities, there were few if any crashes on Route 1

COVINGTON (FOX19) - Northern Kentucky kicks off October as National Domestic Violence Awareness month with its 17th annual Day of Peace, held Friday, September 30th, from 11AM-1PM at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center located at 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. The event is free to the public. Lunch is provided through generous contributions made by: LaRosa’s, Heavenly Frosted Cupcakes, Colonial Cottage, and TGIFriday’s. Local group, Ellery, will provide music.

The event theme this year is: “Be a Courageous Voice for Peace!” and focuses on generating awareness to the realities of both stalking and pet abuse—often hidden forms of dating/domestic violence. Keynote Speaker is Bridgett Wright, survivor and advocate in the 2009 conviction of Russell Swigart, whom broke into Ms. Wright’s residence and stabbed to death two of her cats.  Ms.

ALEXANDRIA, KY (FOX19) - ROSA'S (Rescue Our Shelter Animals And Strays), a grass-roots pet welfare group based in Campbell County, will be part of the Big Pet Event scheduled for this coming Saturday at K & M Feed in Alexandria, KY from 9 to 4.

Besides food and refreshments for humans, the event will feature "Zones" with things for pets to do:
 

• Agility – hand made course by K & M
• Pool Party – dogs bob for ducks for prizes
• Dog Designs – 12PM – 2PM;  Nails trimmed for $5.00; All proceeds to ROSA’s
• Licking Valley Veterinary Services – 9AM-12PM Rabies vaccine $15.00; 9AM-12PM Micro Chipping $15.00; (Portion of the proceeds going to ROSA’S)
• Bruce Markus - Training/Obedience starting at 9AM
• Adopt-A-Pet with ROSA’S Rescue
• The overall event runs from 9:00 a.m.