Paris Story Fest celebrates 10 years
PARIS, Ky. (WKYT) - The Paris Story Fest continues through Sunday with performances throughout Paris and Carlisle. The festival, now in its tenth year, kicked off Friday and features 45-minute tales. All performances are free to attend. Storytellers from across the nation are participating in the Paris tradition. “Storytelling is...
Kentucky man charged after he allegedly spiked chocolate milk with meth
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKRC) — A Kentucky man was arrested after being accused of spiking a container of chocolate milk with methamphetamine, sickening five people. Per WKYT, Eric Rhule, 34, is charged with five counts of wanton endangerment, as well as one count of trafficking in a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance. The incident reportedly happened at a men's drug...
Lexington nonprofit raises money for domestic abuse survivors
Shimmy Mob Lexington, a nonprofit, raises money for domestic abuse survivors with the help Greenhouse17 on World Belly Dance Day
FCPS sustainability team cuts raise concerns among students, parents
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - As Fayette County Public Schools officials work to combat budget shortfalls, leaders say more than 115 district support positions have been reduced. That includes the only two people on their sustainability team. One FCPS parent started a petition to reinstate their positions. Cuts to the Fayette...
Ellis, Longtime Horse Racing Broadcaster, Dies at 94
Ercel Ellis Jr., a trainer, writer, clocker, and longtime horse racing radio broadcaster, died May 7 in Lexington. He was 94. Raised in Central Kentucky, Ellis grew up around Thoroughbred racing, with his father, Ercel Ellis Sr., managing famed Dixiana Farm from 1929-64. As a young man, he heard tales of the legendary Man o' War and other famous horses of the time...
Police search for person in connection with Lexington car theft
The Lexington Police Department is currently looking for a suspect connected with a car theft.
Few People Know This Amazing Kentucky Restaurant Was Once A Train Depot
Hidden in plain sight in Paris, Kentucky, Trackside Restaurant & Bourbon Bar occupies a historic train depot that most people drive past without realizing its delicious secret. This converted station serves wood-fired pizza and bourbon where passengers once boarded trains bound for distant destinations. Sometimes the best restaurants are hiding...
Berea community rallies to support families impacted by US Bank shooting with fundraiser
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 News Now) — More than a week after Brian Switzer and Breanna Edwards were killed in a shooting at a US Bank in Berea, the community is coming together to support their families as well as two other employees impacted. Local business owners have...
Kentucky graduate achieves dreams, breaks barriers as nonverbal communicator
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 News Now) — As Brayden Scott crossed the commencement stage at Rupp Arena on Friday, it was a milestone years in the making, and one that is especially meaningful for the first-generation college graduate from London. Scott, who has cerebral palsy, is a nonverbal communicator...
Maker’s Mark, a shuttered Mercantile, and the word ‘serve’: Inside the Keeneland ZOTA
Today in “why Lexington’s zoning code suddenly cares about gift-shop bourbon”: a one-word change to Article 8-1, an unanimous recommendation, and a structural objection from a Lexington resident that nobody on the dais wanted to take up. If you read the agenda for the May 7 LFUCG...
