Larue County News

We drove 2 1/2 hours for a birthday party. We were about six weeks late, but that was of little consequence; the honoree has been deceased for 144 years.

For five years, Larue County, Kentucky has been part of the WHAS-TV Excel Award program for public school teachers.

Some damage from weekend storms has been reported south of Louisville. Winds clocked up to 60 miles an hour caused damage in the Hodgenville area of LaRue County on Sunday.

A Horse Cave woman is sent to the hospital after a weekend head-on crash in Larue County.

A 26-year-old female was seriously hurt in an accident on U.S. 31 E. near Hodgenville, Ky., Saturday evening.

Jim Sayre of Lawrenceburg won the Richard Burks Lincoln Heritage Award last Thursday in Hodgenville.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky to a poor frontier family.

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

Abe Lincoln turns 200 on Thursday. The "Great Emancipator" was born on February 12, 1809 in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky.

A 34-year-old Bardstown man was killed in a traffic accident yesterday on U.S. 31E about three miles north of Hodgenville, according to a press release from Kentucky State Police.

WASHINGTON -- It's what the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has long been waiting for: the actual 200th anniversary of the Kentucky-born president's birth.