Woodford County News

A Christmas red-and-white striped box with around 12 pieces sells for $8.50. Above is a box in fall wrapping.

Hospice of the Bluegrass offers programs on a variety of topics. Unless otherwise noted, each event will be held at the Hospice of the Bluegrass office, 208 Steele St., Building 2, is free and open to the public.

Former state Rep. Steve Nunn's Glasgow home was sold at auction last weekend to help pay his legal bills, but the money from the sale might be tied up for a while.

When Marianne Miller was a freshman at the University of Evansville, she didn't take any special note of the name on the front of her acting textbook.

On this Veterans Day we pause to remember and thank those who've served in our Armed Forces.

On Nov. 2, 1964, a young Navy petty officer named Billy Carter Semones headed onto the rolling deck of the U.S. ballistic missile submarine Henry Clay to lock down a loose hatch cover.

Cook says that she never wanted the book taken off the shelves so adults couldn't see it.

A man who admitted to causing head injuries to his former girlfriend's 2-year old son was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Bunch, Frith lead Lady Patriots in KTCCCA Meet of Champions Lady Patriots Alex Bunch and Emily Frith were lined up shoulder-to-shoulder with 76 other competitors for the start of Saturday's Class 3A KTCCCA Meet of Champions run.

A computer disk containing child pornography is at the center of an investigation of Woodford County Coroner J. Steve Ward, court records unsealed this week indicate.

A Versailles man died Monday night after a car crash in Woodford County. Hunter Roberts, 23, hit a plank fence in his car just before 9:30 p.m. on Big Sink Road in Woodford County, according to the Fayette County coroner's office.

We continue to learn more about an investigation focused on a Central Kentucky coroner.

Pastor, husband, father, teacher, educator, friend, and faithful proclaimer of the Gospel, he crossed over Jordan and is now rejoicing at the feet of Jesus, his beloved Lord.

The man convicted of sodomizing and killing a six-year-old boy may learn his fate Wednesday.

A community will remember a murdered little boy as his killer begins serving a recommended life sentence.

A jury has recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation for a 51-year-old man found guilty of the murder and sodomy of a six-year-old boy.

Guilty pleas in a federal tax fraud investigation in Oregon could have implications for a racketeering lawsuit and bankruptcy in Lexington involving a Thoroughbred breeding operation known as ClassicStar.

There were sobs from the defendant's relatives and approving nods and grins from others in the courtroom Tuesday as a circuit court judge read the verdict finding Lewis "Buck" Ballard guilty of murder and first-degree sodomy.

Jury selection is expected to wrap up today in the trial of an accused child killer.

The capital murder and sodomy case against 51-year-old Lewis "Buck" Ballard was moved from Bourbon County to Woodford County.