Fayette County News

Budgets are always policy statements, but never so much as in tight times. The Urban County Council passed a budget Thursday night that trims Lexington-Fayette County's operations while retaining services in some critical areas and maintaining momentum in others.

Just a decade ago, basic civil rights were denied individuals living in Jefferson County.

DINNER TRAIN: The name R.J. Corman out of context might mean nothing to you, and to many, may mean nothing in context.

Lexington's Pride Festival returns to downtown for a second year, and amid the more than 50 booths, food vendors and standard festival fare like a Velcro wall, there will be a message.

A Lexington-Fayette Urban County traffic engineering worker was charged with drunken driving after he was called to fix a broken traffic light early Wednesday.

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

A 20-year-old man died Saturday morning after he and three others were shot outside a convenience store.

A case involving a Lexington woman charged with shooting and killing her neighbor was sent Thursday to a Fayette County grand jury.

Police in central Kentucky are looking for a man suspected in a string of burglaries.

Lexington police are seeking a custodian named Brian Allen McGuire in Tuesday morning's fatal shooting at Lexington's Leestown Middle School.

The custodian accused of fatally shooting a co-worker at Leestown Middle School has signed a waiver to be extradited to Kentucky.

Jos Daniel Donato left his home in Nicholasville about 6 a.m. Tuesday to go to Leestown Middle School in Lexington, where he worked as a custodian.

Jos Daniel Donato left his home in Nicholasville about 6 a.m. Tuesday to go to Leestown Middle School in Lexington, where he worked as a custodian.

The identity of a school custodian killed in a shooting incident at Leestown Middle School Tuesday morning has been released, and police say they are still searching for the suspect.

LEXINGTON, - A custodian was fatally shot Tuesday at a middle school in Lexington, a police spokesman said.

A Madison County grand jury on Thursday indicted Joshua Eugene Harris, 26, on 13 felony counts of sexual misconduct involving a child less than 12 years old.

Summer feeding programs, which provide meals to hundreds of children in Fayette County, are expecting an increase this year as already tight family budgets are stretched to provide meals kids usually get in school.

Public university and school leaders expressed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday after learning that Gov.

The number of confirmed swine flu cases in Kentucky has reached 88 and the state probably will see more, health officials said Tuesday.

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