Menifee County News

Cruisin' on Main was a roaring success last Saturday, with 200 cars parked along Main Street.

Authorities are rounding up nearly two dozen people accused of trafficking in drugs in Menifee County.

Authorities were busy Wednesday rounding up 22 people suspected of illegally selling drugs, mostly oxycodone, in Menifee County.

Waterfalls have inspired man since the dawn of time. Today, the mystic beauty remains and draws people worldwide to the mist of their spray.

One local detective, who helped in the investigation to take down Chad B. Stafford, is pleased to find out the convicted felon will spend the next 12 and one-half years behind bars as punishment for his addiction to child pornography.

One local detective, who helped in the investigation to take down Chad B. Stafford, is pleased to find out the convicted felon will spend the next 12 and one-half years behind bars as punishment for his addiction to child pornography.

A Menifee county psychologist received a 151 month prison sentence in what U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning called the most bizarre and disturbing child pornography case he's ever presided over.

Though by a very narrow margin, March numbers show Laurel County's unemployment rate went down from the month before - the first time that has happened since August 2008.

Unemployment rate rises Franklin County's unemployment rate for March is up to 8.9 percent, a two-tenths jump from February.

Jobless rates rose in all 120 counties from March 2008 through March of this year reaching 9.8 percent.

Unemployment rates are continuing to rise statewide. The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training spokeswoman Kim Brannock says joblessness in nine counties in March reached 15 percent or higher and 10 percent or higher in 88 counties.

Kentucky's March unemployment rate rose in all 120 counties, according to information released Tuesday by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training .

The search is over for a missing mother who once lived in Clermont County. Police say a hiker found human remains Monday in the Red River Gorge area.

The human remains found Monday by a hiker in the Red River Gorge were identified Tuesday as those of a Menifee County woman who had been missing since January.

Dozens of relatives and friends turned out at the Menifee County Library Sunday night for a vigil held in honor of 27-year-old Nicole Van Zant.

It isn't glamorous, but Darrell Hess is glad to have a job paid for by money from the federal stimulus package.

An alleged murder in Menifee County Wednesday afternoon has put a 72-year-old man behind bars and police seeking a motive.

A 72-year-old eastern Kentucky man has been charged with murder. WKYT-TV in Lexington reports the victim was a neighbor of the man who was charged after the shooting Wednesday afternoon.

Unemployment rates are up in each of Kentucky's 120 counties. A report released Tuesday by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training says the counties' unemployment rates in February ranged from just more than 7 percent to nearly 19 percent.

Harlan County recorded a 9.6 percent unemployment rate for January, an increase of 1.6 percent from December and only slightly above the state average at 9.5 percent.