Oldham County News

The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training released April figures on Thursday showing the coalfields with unemployment rates ranging from 13.3 percent in Jackson County to 16.9 percent in Magoffin County.

GOSHEN, KY Thirty teachers were cut from Oldham County Schools. This is just one part of a decision made by the Board of Education in order to cut $3.3 million out of its budget.

A Louisville man is in serious trouble after police say he raped and sodomized a woman who was just trying to lend a helping hand.

GOSHEN, KY A drunken joyride in a upscale Oldham County subdivision landed two teens behind bars and facing some very serious charges.

Smokey came to us red, raw and hairless. He has food allergies and was in bad shape.

W.W. Rowlett was a local writer in La Grange who wrote about Oldham County in several venues.

When the La Grange Literary Club formed, the tome about a woman named Scarlett O'Hara, the Civil War and a man who did not give a damn was rocking the best-seller charts -- and the movie adaptation, starring an up-and-comer named Clark Gable, was much in anticipation.

The Logan County unemployment rate dropped slightly over the last month, according to the most recent statistics released by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

S.Y. Bancorp Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of The Bancorp Inc., the La Grange-based holding company for The Bank - Oldham County.

La Grange Mayor Bill Lammlein may have withdrawn his proposal for a payroll tax last year, but that fight is not over.

According to MetroSafe, the fire started at 3:34 p.m. Tuesday in the 9200 block of Foxtail Court, located between Interstate 71 and Ballardsville Road.

Oldham County High School was briefly placed on restricted access Tuesday while police arrested a man hiding on top of a nearby business.

Two fresh copies of Tina Fey's memoir "Bossypants" in hand, Rachel Harless strode up to a total stranger outside a Wendy's at the corner of Bardstown Road and Grinstead Drive and made her pitch.

Louisville-based investment firm Hilliard Lyons recommends buying the stock of S.Y. Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co.

Oldham County Project Graduation "Key West" will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013, at North Oldham High School.

Another agency is investigating a former Louisville teacher who is charged with sexually abusing her middle school student.

The RJ Thieneman real estate development firm has acquired The Woods of Glen Oaks and anticipates new home construction beginning this fall.

Guided tours of the new St. Bernadette Church building in Norton Commons will be held during public open houses from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday.

When Vivian Black and other volunteers with the Friends of Westport set to clean out the old Quonset hut on Front Street near the river, inches upon inches of goo covered every surface.

As the official caretaker of Oldham County's historic court documents, the Oldham County History Center has many interesting court cases, some of which include coroner's inquests.