Franklin County News

A high school in Frankfort has honored a freshman who died while trying out for its basketball team.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Photo By Hilly SchifferTim McClain, a state worker with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, has been a hot air balloon pilot since 2002.

Photo By Kelly MackeyFloyd a oeHappya Terrell gets help sitting in his wheelchair from Physical Therapist Assistant Thomas Hayden and home health aide Crystal Middleton after standing for about three minutes.

Photo By Hilly SchifferPat Wilson, 59, of Frankfort, a Salvation Army employee and volunteer, rings a bell to encourage donations in front of Bryanta s Pic-Pac Friday.

One of the first graduates of Franklin County Drug Court has been sentenced Friday to five years in prison for selling painkillers.

Two retirees who sold more than $1 million in knock-off merchandise and a suspended lawyer who failed to report her income have been indicted by the Franklin County grand jury for tax fraud.

A Frankfort policeman dozed off at the wheel Friday and suffered a minor leg injury in a collision that severely damaged his cruiser, according to reports.

Photo By Kelly MackeyRonald Willoughby drives the first Jim Beam truck across a new bridge built in May.

The Frankfort man who broke into the Silver Lake home of City Commissioner Rodney Williams last year received five years probation.

A man who says Rev. Joseph N. Muench sexually abused him as an associate pastor of Good Shepherd Church has sued the Catholic Diocese of Covington and its bishop for an unspecified amount of damages.

Here's the agenda that the City Commission will be discussing at tonight's work session .

The Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission has paid $147,500 for 98.5 acres of land in central Kentucky to protect a federally endangered plant.

Sen. Julian Carroll, left, watches as Pat Melton, center, fills out paperwork declaring his candidacy for sheriff.

Franklin County and Western Hills will be competing in the Class 2A Region 4 cross country meet Saturday at the State Library and Archives.

Frankfort Regional Medical Center is going tobacco free outdoors and in. In conjunction with the American Cancer Society's 34th Great American Smokeout Challenge on Nov.

The Farmdale Sanitation District, which will serve about 1,500 in southwestern Franklin County, is getting $900,000 in federal funds for design and construction of a new wastewater treatment plant.

Kentucky State Police investigation has lead to the indictment of a Franklin County mother.

The third man suspected in the Tierra Linda home invasions in March was in court Friday after he'd been missing for three months.

A Kentucky State Police investigation has lead to the indictment of a new mother in Franklin County.

Kentucky State University has received a $900,000 federal grant to open a center for at-risk African American and Hispanic youths by early December.