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Well, the economists finally made it official this week: We're in a recession. And, guess what? They said it began a year ago.

A grand jury will hear the case against two men accused of hanging an effigy of President-elect Barack Obama.

While you were digesting left-over turkey last weekend, 14 endangered whooping cranes were making their way across Western Kentucky.

NICHOLASVILLE — Construction won't start on a new city hall as quickly as elected officials had planned.

A builder whose unfinished house on Indian Mound Road in Lexington drew complaints last summer from neighbors has declared bankruptcy. Dudley Scott Baesler and his wife, Shelly, filed a Chapter 7 petition recently in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

RICHMOND — Army officials detected a GB vapor leak Monday from an M55 rocket stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County.

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On a wet and freezing Monday evening, Lillie McGlothen placed a wreath outside her mother's home.

Eastern Kentucky University is launching a new alternative-fuels research program in tandem with a San Diego energy firm that will look at producing diesel — and potentially jet fuel — from plant matter.

When he ran for mayor in 2006, Jim Newberry committed to hiring 150 police officers by 2010.

The miracle — that continues to allow 3,000 blind and print-disabled people to have the newspaper read to them every day — took three years, hundreds of hours, a slew of volunteers, tens of thousands of dollars and the grace and benevolence of a community suddenly awakened to the need.

Mike Huckabee has had an unforgettable year.

The World Equestrian Games Foundation has decided to allow Tennessee walking horses to join in demonstrations at the 2010 World Games, not in spite of, but perhaps because of controversies that has surrounded the breed.

FRANKFORT — A more than $450 million hole in Kentucky's state budget is likely to fill much of the General Assembly's time when lawmakers convene in January.

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