Jessamine County News

A state inmate being held in the Jessamine County Detention Center died Monday in an accident while on work detail.

The Jessamine County Public Library has a long history with censorship. One of my kids brought hom EJHS student dies in wreck, brother injured Comment by sh1964 : Monday, November 9 so very saddened by this family's loss.

MELBOURNE - When the 1800s dawned, Kentucky had the country's first commercial vineyard, and before the Civil War, the commonwealth was the country's third biggest producer of wine and grapes, according to a new documentary, 'Vintage Kentucky: The Vine to Wine Experience.' The film, by documentarian Doug High of Covington's The PPS Group, tracks ...

A Jessamine County man died Saturday after losing control of his truck and crashing through a plank fence, according to Jessamine County Chief Deputy Allen Peel.

Nurse Cindy Bishop administered the shot. More Kentucky flu coverage Question: What are the priority groups? Answer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created a priority list for those at greatest risk from H1N1.

COVINGTON - Kentucky's grape and wine industry will bathe in a spotlight when a new documentary begins airing tonight.

The Jessamine County Fiscal Court voted 5-1 to accept West Brannon Road at the entrance into the Renaissance Run Court subdivision, provided that the developer Ted Smith remove a gate by Dec.

A Jessamine County animal refuge is asking the public for some unusual help in order to be able to feed its animal population.

Hopkins County, KY Preliminary statistics* indicate that twelve people died in twelve separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, October 26 through Sunday, November 1, 2009.

Madison County school officials say they will give swine flu vaccinations to all county students whose parents return permission slips.

A Jessamine County man is dead following a crash early Saturday morning. It happened just before 6:00 on Sulphur Well Road.

Authorities say rainy weather and alcohol may be to blame for a deadly Saturday morning crash.

Herbert H. "Pete" Royse Jr. started helping build schools in Jessamine County in the 1960s when, as an assistant superintendent, he convinced the superintendent of the school board to buy more than 80 acres of land off Wilmore Road.

Cathy Burgess Interiors has been awarded the Cornelius A. Hubbach design award for design of the lobby of the United Bank building, located at 2509 Sir Barton Way in Hamburg Place.

And no, it wasn't "Lost Girls," it was a volume of his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .

The Wilmore City Council heard a presentation Monday from the Wilmore Fire Department about the problems it has had recruiting and retaining volunteer firefighters, an issue that had been brought before the council June 8 but not acted upon.

House Speaker Greg Stumbo's plan for state lawmakers to consider reaching into local school system's contingency funds has met a bump in the road from Jessamine legislators and the local school board.

Destination Jessamine, a tourism group that was started in 2006 to plan for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, is entering the final phases of preparation for next September's event.

The first of what initially will be weekly small shipments of the new H1N1 vaccine arrived in Jessamine County late last week and will be distributed in coming days.

Wilmore is one step away from getting new residential zoning that will allow it to have smaller-density developments in its limits.