Lincoln County News

The Lincoln County Sheriffa s Department recovered a new Woods batwing mower valued at $10,000 that was stolen from Saufleya s Implement Co.

A judge sentenced a young central Kentucky man to serve at least 25 years without a parole hearing on two murder charges.

Church briefs for June 19 including Beech Grove Baptist Church in Perryville, Danville First Church of God, First Baptist Church in Lancaster, Grace Fellowship Church in Stanford, Hustonville Baptist Church, Moreland First Baptist Church, St.

A Lincoln County woman is still in the hospital two weeks after being injured in a three-vehicle accident along U.S. 127 on June 6, reports the Danville Advocate Messenger in its Sunday edition.

A focus group met Tuesday afternoon at the Lincoln County Health Department to lay out a path for rehabilitating the 234 miles of the Hanging Fork Creek and its tributaries that flow through the county.

H1N1 influenza news reports captivated our attention regarding the number of flu cases, where they occurred, and the resulting effects.

Roger and Anna Cogburn of Maryville, Tenn., and the Rev. Larry and Wanda Nichols of Somerset, Ky., are pleased to announce the forthcoming wedding of their children, Arynda Lea Cogburn and Dr.

Amber Nicole Fitzgerald and Robin Newsome of Somerset, Ky., are pleased to announce their upcoming wedding on June 15, 2009.

The Somerset Fire Department responded to a report of a Structure Fire at Economy Inn on Monticello Street on Sunday - and law enforcement believe drug production may be the cause.

The death penalty is still an option for the upcoming trial of three men charged in a high profile double murder in Lincoln County.

A Louisville man was killed in a two-vehicle accident over the weekend in Lincoln County, a Kentucky State Police report said.

Delbert Padgett to Jimmie Padgett, property at intersection of Jim Padgett Lane and Johnson Road, $8,000. Whitaker Bank Inc.

RECC representatives Doug Conley and Bruce Parkey handed out buckets filled with two energy-saving light bulbs and an information packet to RECC members who came to last night's event, the 2009 South Kentucky RECC Annual Meeting.

Storms pounded central Kentucky Wednesday, leaving behind a big mess in some areas.

A central Kentucky farmer has been killed in an agricultural accident. A Lincoln County official said 56-year-old Glenn Day was trying to unclog a hay baler Tuesday evening when the machine's heavy door closed, trapping and suffocating him.

The trial of the first of five people in a 2002 murder continues in Stanford. Commonwealth's Attorney Eddy Montgomery told the jury Jamarkos Campbell is guilty and needs to pay for the deaths of Ryan Shangraw and Harold "Bo" Upton in Lincoln County.

There are typically two types of veterans. Some are rolling stones; they adapt to the nomadic lifestyle of the military, and when they leave the service they stay on the move, frequently traveling, moving or changing jobs.

The tiny trailer in the tiny, out-of-the-way community of Hubble sits empty now, looking for all the world like nothing ever happened there.

David Watz, Chief Deputy United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky, pursuant to court order in Lexington Civil Action No.

Mercer and Lincoln counties have each confirmed one case of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, The Advocate-Messenger in Danville reports.