Shelby County News

This weekend, multiple local welcome centers will be featured sites as part of a summer promotion highlighting the Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail.

The July 4th holiday is around the corner, and if you plan on traveling by car this weekend, plan ahead for construction zones around Kentuckiana.

Magistrates in Spencer County are reviewing the expenses of their judge-executive, David Jenkins, after the Herald-Leader reported that charges to strip clubs, a Lexington escort service and casinos appeared on his Kentucky Association of Counties credit card.

Shelbyville Police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for numerous recent break-ins at businesses in Henry, Spencer, Oldham, Jefferson, Shelby, Nelson and surrounding counties.

A central Kentucky man has survived being struck by lightning. Brian Larsh was waiting for a ride as the lunch hour began at Shelby Industries in Shelbyville on Wednesday when the incident occurred.

The seven nominees for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Louisville Man and Woman of the Year are raising money for the organization, but the cause goes beyond that.

The more than 350 Shelby County High School graduates had a lot to celebrate as they received their diplomas Friday night.

People roaming the garden near the chapel at Apple Patch, a nonprofit organization in the Crestwood area, sometimes ask employees: Who is this Dave Ehrler the garden is named for? 'We tell them he was a really good friend of Apple Patch,' said Joe Spoelker, the director of development for the group, which provides support and therapy for adults ...

A Shelby County High School senior was killed Tuesday night after a car she was riding in overturned several times after crashing through a fence.

One person was killed and three others were injured late last night when a car ran off a road in Shelby County and overturned several times, a detective with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said.

One person is dead and three others are being treated following a crash in Shelby County Tuesday night.

The General Motors bankruptcy announcement is just the latest hard knock for the auto industry and the businesses surrounding it.

On Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM Trooper Hunter Martin was on Village Lane in Shelbyville, KY when he observed a wanted person.

A Shelbyville, Kentucky plant is closing its doors. The union members say they've given enough concessions.

A Kentucky State Police trooper was sent to the hospital after trying to arrest a suspect in Shelby County.

An insect called the emerald ash borer has been found in two Kentucky counties, which means trouble for the state's hundreds of millions of ash trees.

A new federal safety law is closing pools across the region and delaying the openings of others.

Martinrea Heavy Stamping's plant in Shelby County, which supplies auto parts such as hoods and doors to Louisville's two Ford plants, will close this summer.

Construction is beginning on the long-planned widening of a five-mile stretch of Interstate 64 to six lanes -- three lanes in each direction -- between the Gene Snyder Freeway and the Jefferson-Shelby county line.

On Friday, January 2, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Kera Hudspeth of Shelbyville arrived at the Jewish Hospital.