Lexington-Fayette News

The Administrative Office of the Courts deserves credit for hiring felons, a class of people who are particularly at risk of dropping into permanent, debilitating unemployment.

The newly announced head of facilities for the state court system will go to work instead for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.

An early morning wreck in central Kentucky has turned a lot of fowl very foul. More than 18 tons of frozen, breaded chicken fritters had to be destroyed after the truck carrying the boxed bird crashed.

Thirty years after the Stonewall riots, the Greenwich Village inn where they began in 1969 was put on the National Register of Historic Places for its "significance in gay and lesbian history." It is also a National Historic Landmark.

When you are $167 million in debt, what's another $64 million among friends? While that may sound bad, it's not as bad as the national debt.

If a key component of retirement involves relaxation, no one told Bettye Simpson.

Ying Juan Rogers, right, vice president of the Kentucky World Trade Center, spoke during a conference in Mumbai, India, while on a trade mission earlier this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Less than a week remains to see the first major exhibition of Egyptian antiquities in the Bluegrass.

Lexington, KY - Nestled on Forest Avenue, in a historic neighborhood characterized by its mature trees and turn-of-the-century architecture, Wyn Morris and Vicki Sword's home may have a more decorated past than most.

Already stretched arts groups in Lexington could take another blow if the urban county council agrees to a recommended 10-percent cut to LexArts.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Alarm companies doing business in Lexington-Fayette County have been pushing for change lately.

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Division of Community Corrections Department honored one of its own Wednesday, placing a monument at the Metro Detention Center in memory of Delmar White.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Tobacco Policy research conducted by Ellen Hahn, professor in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing , and colleagues will be featured on the Research Channel May 27 and 28.

Kentucky health officials confirmed four new swine flue cases in the state Thursday, including a Fayette County man who became ill on a trip to Nevada.

Health officials say they've found a rabid bat in Lexington, making it the ninth animal in the city to test positive for the disease this year.

In April, during a press conference on next year's budget proposal, Mayor Jim Newberry took note amid gloomy budgetary predictions of a refreshing first-quarter increase of 40 percent in Lexington's residential building permits over last year.

When Fayette County Public Schools received the highest scores ever given to one of the state's school systems on a Kentucky Scholastic Audit early last week, few people seemed to notice and even fewer reacted.

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board Wednesday selected Crowe Horwath LLP to provide annual external audit services for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Three former jailers at the Lexington-Fayette County Detention Center pleaded guilty today to civil rights charges in federal court in Lexington, Ky.

Jewel Bell of Lexington had gotten high on drugs and alcohol for nearly 30 of her 42 years of life.