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McKenna Bowling posed on a friend's 1931 Ford Model A before riding in it to the prom.

Community gathers to watch students step out in style at Montgomery County High School prom

MOUNT STERLING — Montgomery County's Clay Community Center looked like the site of a movie premiere Saturday night. There were velvet ropes, a red carpet and a sharply-dressed announcer with a microphone. The stars of the evening weren't actors and actresses, though: They were seniors from Montgomery County High School and their prom dates. 12 minutes ago

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On May 18, 2013, in Lexington, Kentucky at Keeneland Race Course, the American Heart Association hosted the Central Kentucky Heart Walk. The event was expected to draw over 3,000 participants and raise over $350,000 for cardiovascular research and preventive education in Central and Eastern Kentucky. Photo by Chad Butcher

Snapped: American Heart Association walk

The American Heart Association hosted the Central Kentucky Heart Walk at Keeneland.

Bike Lexington

Bike Lexington downtown featured rides for all ages.

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Georgetown man and woman accused of abusing 14-month-old

A Georgetown man and woman have been arrested and charged with first-degree criminal abuse of a 14-month-old girl, Kentucky State Police said Saturday...

Sports

Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore.

John Clay: Inside post derailed Orb in pressure-packed Preakness

The history books will say that Orb lost the Preakness to Oxbow and the Hall of Fame combination of trainer D. Wayne Lukas and jockey Gary Stevens. ...

Entertainment

Jennifer Palumbo is once again co-anchoring the 10 p.m. news on Fox affiliate WDKY-56.

Jennifer Palumbo to anchor WKYT newscast

Longtime Lexington news anchor Jennifer Palumbo will begin leading a 4 p.m. weekday newscast on WKYT (Channel 27) in addition to anchoring the 10 p.m. newscast on sister channel WDKY (Channel 56).

Living

Eggs are gathered daily from the Maddocks' coop. The task fell to Isaac, 9, one recent day. Jeremy Porter, chicken consultant for the food-sustainability group Seedleaf and Cluck! Lexington, estimates there are several hundred urban chicken keepers in Lexington.

Lexington's third annual coop tour illustrates growing popularity of back-yard chickens

Having back-yard chickens sounds like great fun in the summertime when the birds are out eating bugs and skedaddling around the garden. But what happens...

Business

The undeveloped lot known as CentrePointe in downtown Lexington in 2012.

Restaurateur Jeff Ruby tweets he's opening in Lexington, says no more

Restaurateur Jeff Ruby tweeted Friday afternoon that he plans to open a restaurant in Lexington's long-delayed CentrePointe development downtown in...

Nation/World News

Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known.

Medical emergency eyed in Va. parade crash

Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town... 3 hours ago