EDDYVILLE -- Marco Allen Chapman, who killed two children, stabbed their sister, and stabbed and raped their mother in 2002, was put to death at 7:34 p.m. CST Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
LOUISVILLE — An amusement park said Friday it has reached a settlement with the family of a Louisville teenager whose feet were severed when a thrill ride malfunctioned last year.
FRANKFORT — After the state's projected budget shortfall grew by more than half on Friday to $456.1 million, Gov. Steve Beshear warned that the blooming financial crisis may bring tax increases, layoffs and cuts to education and social services programs.
A traditional cornucopia is a classic centerpiece to grace your Thanksgiving table.
When the search for a new conductor for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra began in September 2007, the Herald-Leader's Rich Copley speculated about some of the eleven programs being more difficult to conduct than others. The last two concerts certainly show that to be a valid issue.
Kentucky hasn't begun a season with three losses since 1926. But more recent history weighs on the minds of UK's upcoming opponents: Virginia Military Institute's victory over UK last week. If VMI beat Kentucky, couldn't Delaware State on Saturday and/or Longwood on Monday do the same?
Rochester officials say members of Saudi Arabia's royal family spent enough during a visit to the Mayor Clinic their visit this past week to give the area's economy a shot in the arm.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday urged Barack Obama to get involved in Mideast peacemaking efforts immediately after becoming the U.S. president in January.
Kentucky politicians always insist coal can be mined and burned in an environmentally responsible way.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go - somewhere else, that is.
She's been a mother, a lawyer and a first lady, an aggrieved wife, a U.S. senator and a nearly victorious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now Hillary Clinton appears set to take on a new role: secretary of state.