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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.

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

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

Plans to build the nine-mile Legacy Trail for cyclists and pedestrians between downtown Lexington and the Kentucky Horse Park have hit a roadblock.

The Urban County Council did not want to discuss or even listen to the presentation about Mayor Jim Newberry's storm-water fee proposal Tuesday.

A Fayette County judge threw out the confession of the accused shooter in a gang-related slaying last December, after finding that the defendant's statements were made after "coercive police activity."

The Urban County Council on Tuesday deadlocked on a resolution over whether the council should approve the city's collective bargaining contracts with police, fire and community corrections.

Urban County Council gave tentative approval on Tuesday to ordinances creating districts around two downtown developments so tax money from those districts can be used to help pay for city improvements.

As employees at Kirklevington Hills apartments described it Monday in an arson trial in Lexington, nothing could please tenant Michael D. Mitchell.

RICHMOND, Va. — A Mexican billionaire who controls a chain of electronics stores in Latin America now holds a 13 percent stake in Circuit City Stores Inc., which is under bankruptcy protection.

VERSAILLES — Traffic is enough of problem in this city of 7,800 that more than half of the respondents in an instant poll taken Monday night acknowledged using side streets between two to five days a week to avoid downtown congestion.

A candlelight vigil to mark the three-month anniversary of the death of a Salvadoran immigrant in custody at Franklin County jail is scheduled for Friday.

A man's head injury does not appear to have caused his death, authorities said Monday. Ernest Mackto, 41, was found dead Sunday afternoon outside the Sturgill Car Care Center, 901 Newtown Pike.