Breckinridge County News

This weekend, multiple local welcome centers will be featured sites as part of a summer promotion highlighting the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail.

Unit 1, a 2000 Dodge Durango being operated by Andy Newsome, 53 years old from Webster, was traveling west on KY 2780.

The motto "working for you in ways you never imagined" is emblazoned on the Kentucky Association of Counties' logo, its County Line magazine and staff business cards.

City officials gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of the city's 26th farmer's market, but inclement weather kept the market from getting much business.

Leitchfield Fire Department crews work to extricate a local man from his car after he was struck by a woman driving a pickup truck.

A middle school girl is under arrest, police say she had a hit list with the names of classmates and faculty.

Politics does make strange bedfellows. I am not a friend of Tom Burch. I ran against him for the legislative seat in 2000 for a variety of reasons including his record on pro-choice. However, the reader's ...

Kentucky State Police have made a break in a 14 year old murder case. A Breckinridge County grand jury returned indictments Wednesday against three men in the April 1995 shooting death of Eddie "Waldo" Keith of ...

Chilling winds and more snow were expected for Kentucky on Tuesday, bad news for more than a quarter of a million people still without power after an ice storm.

Kentucky Governor Beshear appealed to President Barack Obama for help in what's being called the worst natural disaster in modern state history.

Over 30 more South Carolinians are headed to Kentucky to help with storm damage.

The door-to-door check of Kentucky residents huddled in their houses without electricity due to this week's massive ice storm saved the lives of an elderly couple.

She was hardly a great orator. She never raved or ranted in the courtroom. But in 25 years as a public defender, Bette Niemi won 17 acquittals, most remarkably for two clients facing the death penalty.

The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board, chaired by Gov. Steve Beshear, approved $260,297 from the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund in agricultural diversification projects across the Commonwealth ...

An 11-year-old Breckinridge County girl is dead after being hit by a pickup truck.

A car struck and killed a stranded driver's stepdaughter, as she got into a good Samaritan's car, and fled the scene Tuesday.

Two young girls were hit by cars and killed in separate incidents in rural Breckinridge County on Tuesday, one while bringing Christmas cookies to her mail carrier, police said.

While heavy rain is making roads slick on Wednesday, the conditions are much improved over Tuesday night.

Two children are killed in two separate accidents in Breckinridge County. First, State Police say an 11-year-old girl was hit and killed by a vehicle while taking Christmas cookies to her mail carrier on KY ...

Kentucky state police say an 11-year-old Breckinridge County girl who was bringing cookies to her mail carrier was hit by a truck and killed.