Spencer County News

The Spencer County sheriff's department has closed down what it considers to be a fairly large marijuana growing operation.

The Kentucky State Auditor's office is stepping in to take a closer look at the finances of two organizations that work with local governments across the state of Kentucky.

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.

Enjoy the sounds of summer in beautiful Taylorsville, Spencer county. Start your vacation today at Edgewater resort.

Enjoy the sounds of summer in beautiful Taylorsville, Spencer county. Start your vacation today at Tanglewood Golf Course.

Preliminary statistics* indicate that nine people died in eight separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, June 1 through Sunday, June 7, 2009.

A new monument commemorating Abraham Lincoln's years in Indiana will be dedicated Friday in Lincoln State Park.

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.

Authorities are reporting an increase in the number of traffic fatalities in the state for 2009 as compared to fatal crashed reported during the same time period in 2008 - but statistics at the Pulaski County level are just the opposite.

On Thursday, June 04, 2009 at 9:27 AM, a double fatality occurred in Spencer County on US-31E. Phyllis M. Cook was northbound on US 31E.

A 29-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, charged with breaking into a home and crawling into bed with a woman and her son.

Authorities are searching for a man who fell overboard from a boat on Taylorsville Lake this morning.

The search is on tonight for a 36-year-old drowning victim at the Taylorsville Lake Marina in Spencer County.

As you might expect, several inhabitants of the Over the Rainbow Farm near Mount Washington are munchkin-like. There's Bunny and Tiger, who are miniature goats, and Kings Shinie Little World and Shinie Bits of Daisies - miniature horses.

On Sunday May 10, 2009 at 9:45 am Frankort Post 12 received a call from a person in Spencer County Kentucky advising the above individual was unresponsive.

The second of four new pennies illustrating Abraham Lincoln's life will be introduced May 14 near the 16th president's boyhood home in southern Indiana.

Sophomores Micaela Montgomery and Kelsey Wagner, both 16, will leave the halls of Bullitt East High School this fall and head to college.

Kandace Burton and Katelyn Benkert hope to fulfill their dream of performing in Nashville.

At The Tea Cup in Taylorsville, people are talking about the one thing you can't find on the menu.

SHEPHERDSVILLE Carolyn Franklin came to Bullitt Fiscal Court to introduce her role as a member of the U.S. Census 2010 team.