Lexington Metro News

Emily Cox, a Bowling Green native, will compete to be Miss America. A UK graduate from Bowling Green will represent Kentucky in the Miss America pageant.

Gov. Steve Beshear took three planeloads of officials with him to Pike County at a cost of more than $7,000 for the first stop in a six-week statewide tour.

Firefighters in Lexington were battling a two-alarm blaze Thursday in the city's downtown area and the mayor ordered an evacuation of nearby city blocks.

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Lexington mayor Jim Newberry has lifted an evacuation order for areas near the site of a fire in downtown Lexington as firefighters get control of the blaze.

A house fire in eastern Kentucky has killed an elderly woman and seriously burned a man.

Lexington police are releasing more details about an officer-involved shooting. 44-year-old Warren Douglas Rayburn is still at UK hospital after being shot several times, early Monday morning.

Health officials in Lexington said a bat has tested positive for rabies. The local health department cautioned people in the area of Woodland Park to be careful for themselved and to protect their pets.

A Lexington man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl.

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday for Army Spec. William McMillan III, 22, the Lexington soldier who was killed in Iraq last week.

Lexington Police officers worked the shooting scene. A police officer shot a man multiple times after he refused to put a rifle down in a north Lexington house early Monday, authorities said.

Police say workers at the Dairy Mart on Reynolds road were able to lead them right to the suspect's home a few blocks away.

A lawyer for a Lexington strip club bouncer who faced trial next week in an alleged murder-for-hire case says the defendant has died.

Army officials confirmed Friday that sarin nerve agent is leaking from a container at the Blue Grass Army Depot, reports the Lexington Herald-Leader in its Saturday edition.

A Fayette County judge dismissed charges Friday against a Lexington strip club bouncer accused in an alleged murder-for-hire plot after police confirmed that he has committed suicide.

A lawsuit filed after a concrete slab fell and fatally crushed a pregnant Lexington woman has been settled, according to the family's attorney.

Thirty-nine passengers who were on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Nashville, Tenn., are safe after an emergency landing in Lexington, Kentucky.

A Lexington home was condemned Thursday after a Scott County man drove his truck into the house while trying to avoid police.

Vindication, winner of the 2002 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and voted champion 2-year-old, has been euthanized following the discovery of an irreparable gastric rupture.

A federal judge has dismissed Delta Air Lines from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a fatal plane crash in Lexington two years ago.