Lexington KY

Fayette County Superintendent Demetrus Liggins on Monday denied fabricating a threatening email or sliding it under the door of a district employee who is also a state lawmaker, according to Liggins’ attorney. The email has become the center of an investigation into Liggins’ conduct that recently led to his paid admini

The Georgetown Police Department is asking the public for help after officers responded to a shooting investigation in the area of River Chase Path.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 15, 2026) — After 63 years, high-end furniture retailer Burke Furniture & Fine Rugs announced it is going out of business. The building has been sold and the company will begin liquidation this week. Leading furniture promotional sales specialists Planned Furniture Promotions (PFP) will handle the.

A status hearing in the manslaughter case involving former University of Kentucky competitive cheerleader Laken Snelling has been delayed.  The hearing, scheduled for Friday, June 12, has been pushed to August due to “evidentiary issues.” The delay was agreed to in a filing by both parties, according to Lexington’s Fox

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Two people were arrested in Lexington for stealing more than $15,000 total in inventory from several Dick’s Sporting Goods stores according to police. Police say 54-year-old Gregory Pettigrew, arrested June 14, and 52-year-old Latravia McLean, arrested June 13, stole thousands of dollars worth o

They may not grade papers or hand out report cards, but fathers and father figures often teach some of life's most important lessons.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Lexington woman is asking for help from the community as she searches for a stem cell donor. Kimberley White has been living with myelofibrosis, a rare form of bone marrow cancer, since 2020. In April her cancer progressed and she now needs a stem cell transplant.

Westbound lanes of I-64 were blocked on Monday morning following a crash in the area.

Between the summer of 1869 and the fall of 1870 — barely fifteen months — mobs in Madison County, Kentucky killed at least seven Black people. The county had a courthouse at Richmond, a college at Berea founded on the principle of racial equality, and, for that stretch, a Klan that rode more or less as it pleased.

A program that serves Kentucky children who have been placed in the care of relatives will be forced to close at the end of June because of lack of funding. Samantha Sheets, program director for Lexington-based Kindred Roots , said the program, which is operated by The Bair Foundation, a Christian nonprofit, was notifi