Mercer County News

The former executive director of an agency that cared for the mentally disabled pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of sexual abuse and assault under extreme emotional disturbance.

Starting Monday, the 84-year-old Kennedy Mill bridge, which spans Herrington Lake on Ky.

GABRAKY 2008 began with cyclistsa back wheels in the Ohio River. Nancy Moore rode her Trek bicycle 475 miles this summer from Lowell, Mich., where she grew up near Grand Rapids to Frankfort.

Starting Monday, the 84-year-old Kennedy Mill Bridge, which spans Herrington Lake on Ky.

A dilapidated old bridge between Garrard and Mercer counties will close for months starting next week.

A Mercer County teacher was charged with a misdemeanor count of third-degree terroristic threatening after getting into an argument with another teacher at Mercer County Senior High School.

A central Kentucky woman and another person have been indicted on charges that they murdered the woman's mother, who was found suffocated with a plastic bag over her head.

A former dean of students at Model Laboratory has returned to Madison County as a school superintendent intern.

ALONG U.S. 127 - Anybody with any sense knew that Debbie Thompson was selling old cow-milking equipment.

A tanker truck loaded with liquid propane overturned Tuesday night on US 127 near the Mercer County line, forcing nearby residents to evacuate their homes.

A tanker truck loaded with liquid propane overturned Tuesday night on US 127 near the Mercer County line, forcing nearby residents to evacuate their homes.

Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed former state Rep. Milward Dedman of Harrodsburg as Mercer County judge-executive. Dedman, who was represented the 55th District from 2004 to 2008, will succeed John Trisler on Saturday.

Police say a man burglarized two houses Thursday night Mercer County while his wife drove the getaway car.

A fire early Thursday morning in Mercer County heavily damaged the home of a woman who had just gotten out of the hospital.

HARRODSBURG - Discussions to establish a human rights commission were held at Tuesday's Mercer County Fiscal Court meeting - a group that, if formed, would serve Mercer County, Harrodsburg and Burgin.

Hulda Parker & Chas. Jones, Fayette County, Ky. Surnames: Parker, Jones, Spaulding I am searching for the CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, etc.of Hulda Parker and Charley Jones.

Police in Mercer County were searching Friday for a driver who fled the scene of a fatal accident Thursday night.

Those who knew 48-year-old Mercer County businessman Eddie Goodlett say he was well loved by the community.

A Mercer County man faces cruelty to animal charges after some horses were taken off his property.

Fire crews in Mercer County had their hands full Wednesday morning after a lightning strike hit a storage facility and set it on fire.