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The Urban County Council on Thursday approved a resolution asking for state Auditor Crit Luallen's help in examining the finances of Blue Grass Airport.

The Urban County Council gave final approval to plans to help revitalize two areas of downtown, one around the old Fayette County courthouse and the CentrePointe development, the other along a stretch of Manchester Street.

Someday, when state officials have added up all of the taxpayer money that will be spent on the lawsuit filed this week by an atheist group, I hope they will send the bill to state Rep. Tom Riner.

FRANKFORT — In his first year as governor of Kentucky, Democrat Steve Beshear said he was unprepared for the intensity of the job.

A 2-year-old girl police say was raped and assaulted last week died Wednesday at the Kentucky Children's Hospital.

The veterinarian at the center of a notorious horse-racing medication case said on Wednesday that he never gave cobra venom to an active racehorse, let alone one in the care of top trainer Patrick Biancone.

The Empty Bowls project sold out of its 500 bowls in 50 minutes Wednesday at Transylvania University's Morlan Gallery, the school said in a press release.

The Detroit automakers are making their case for federal government loans, which could have wide-reaching effects on Kentucky's network of suppliers. Toyota will cut more than half its 500 temporary employees from its Georgetown plant. One Toyota supplier, AK Steel in Ashland, will furlough almost all 1,100 workers until at least mid-January.

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The University of Kentucky would drain most of its reserve funds for classroom improvements and scholarships and freeze hiring for as many as 150 positions if forced to cut its budget by 4 percent.

NICHOLASVILLE — A Wednesday afternoon fire destroyed a warehouse and office complex in a business park off U.S. 27 known locally as "the drag strip."

William Gallion, a disbarred Lexington-area lawyer accused of cheating his clients out of millions in a diet-drug lawsuit settlement, is appealing a federal judge's refusal to reschedule his February trial.

Police in Ohio said Wednesday they probably won't file criminal charges against a Lexington Catholic High School hockey player in connection with a serious injury to another player in a game last weekend.

NICHOLASVILLE — A Jessamine County man faces an attempted murder charge after he allegedly tried to fire a handgun at his estranged wife, police said.

David Brannen is thrilled at the forming of the new Anglican Communion in North America.