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A judge has ordered a civil trial for Patrick Hutchinson, accused of killing his wife and a firefighter before a violent standoff nearly four years ago, to determine whether he should remain involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital.

Investigators have spent the past two days scouring a property in Floyd County, apparently in search of clues in the disappearance of Joyce Gaines Crider, a Lexington woman who has been missing since October 2002.

The Transportation Security Administration is trying to make make traveling out of Blue Grass Airport — and all airports — a little easier.

FRANKFORT — Dozens of apartments were damaged, and a firefighter was injured, after a blaze in Frankfort early Thursday morning, Battalion Chief Dan Shouse said.

COVINGTON — I was on the road at daybreak Thursday, driving to another one of those conferences where Kentuckians talk about how to solve our many problems.

The way the Urban County Council does its work will change dramatically if a proposal to eliminate work sessions and create additional standing committees is approved.

A federal judge in Lexington has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that a United Arab Emirates leader with ties to the Kentucky horse industry was part of a ring that enslaved child jockeys.

By a vote of 8-6 on Thursday, a divided Urban County Council decided to table a resolution that would have required the council to approve the city's collective bargaining contracts with police, fire and community corrections.

An immigration law expert says Ana Romero Rivera, who was awaiting deportation this August, should have been held in the Franklin County jail for only 48 hours for immigration officials to pick her up or release her from custody. Instead she was held for nearly two more weeks and found hanging to death in a jail cell.

NICHOLASVILLE — A draft feasibility study recommends a new east-west toll road that would span the Kentucky River and connect Jessamine and Madison counties.

TAC Air, one of Blue Grass Airport's two companies that service private aircraft, said Wednesday it plans to spend $11.5 million on improvements, including a new executive terminal.

FRANKFORT — The number of Hoosiers who smoke dropped by 20 percent after Indiana increased the tax on cigarettes to nearly a dollar last year, Indiana's top health official told a Kentucky legislative committee Wednesday.

The Old Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, which served as the official residence of Kentucky's lieutenant governor until 2002, will be redecorated as part of an interior design contest that will end with a gala in 2009, according to first lady Jane Beshear.

WILMORE — A Wilmore man was charged Wednesday with rape and sexual abuse of a girl younger than 12, police said.

Lexington's Jaguar Land Rover dealership is closing Wednesday, a victim of being in too small a market, its president says.