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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.

Lexington police are investigating the Sunday afternoon death of a 78-year-old woman as a homicide.

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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The family of an 84-year-old resident of a Richmond nursing home hid a video camera in the woman's room after they discovered dozens of bruises all over her body and didn't get satisfactory answers from the staff.

She lives in perhaps the most glittering place on earth, but as a child she dreamed of a green countryside with horses — a place she caught glimpses of in children's fiction.

In crisp temperatures, surrounded by a festive, cheering crowd, Mayor Jim Newberry threw the switch Saturday night to light the 40-foot Christmas tree in front of Lexington's courthouses and kick off the city's holiday season.

The sale on Saturday of two farms off Tates Creek Road netted more than $1.2 million for three local charities, the bequest of two seemingly eccentric sisters who had no close living heirs.

Prasad Krishna Kadaba, a retired electrical engineering professor at the University of Kentucky and a two-time Fulbright Scholar who survived an airplane hijacking in 1970, died Thursday. He was 84.

A bug called MRSA turned Orvil Hazelton's routine knee replacement into a nightmare that ended only after surgeons amputated his left leg just above the knee.

Kentucky residents and students with ties to Mumbai, India, say they are closely following news of this week's terrorist attacks and checking with loved ones there.