Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Johnny Depp puts Lexington farmhouse up for auction and other top stories.

  • Johnny Depp puts Lexington farmhouse up for auction

    Johnny Depp puts Lexington farmhouse up for auction
    PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHOTO: Halfhill Auction Group/Keni Parks Photography PHO..
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  • Harvey's rain will reach Kentucky. What should we expect?

    Harvey's rain will reach Kentucky. What should we expect?
    As Harvey continues to hammer southeast Texas with flood-causing rains, the National Weather Service has predicted that remnants of the storm could dump several inches on some parts of Kentucky later this week. The heaviest of the rains from Harvey are expected to hit Kentucky late Thursday night and continue to Friday night, with two to four inches predicted in some areas and more possible in others, according to the National Weather Service in Louisville. A map shared by the weather service o..
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  • 1 in 5 Kentucky teachers could retire now. Will pension changes ...

    1 in 5 Kentucky teachers could retire now. Will pension changes ...
    Twenty percent of Kentucky’s 42,020 public school teachers are eligible to retire, but for whatever professional or personal reasons, they reported for work this month when classes started. Asked on Facebook Live late Monday about the possibility of an exodus of teachers sparked by possible sweeping state pension changes, including a proposal to raise the retirement age for teachers to 65, Gov. Matt Bevin said he is hearing a number of similar comments “threatening” thousands of classroom vacan..
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  • Parking restrictions considered for Lexington streets too narrow for ...

    Parking restrictions considered for Lexington streets too narrow for ...
    A committee of the Lexington council unanimously approved a change Tuesday that would restrict parking to one side of newly constructed streets less than 30-feet wide, making room for fire trucks during emergencies. Lexington Fire has struggled for more than a decade to get fire engines into smaller residential streets when cars are parked on both sides. Subdivision regulations allow a 24-foot-wide street with parking on both sides, but fire codes require streets to have 20 feet of unobstructe..
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  • Blankenship wins placekicking duties for No. 15 Georgia

    Blankenship wins placekicking duties for No. 15 Georgia
    Rodrigo Blankenship will be the starting placekicker when No. 15 Georgia opens its season against Appalachian State on Saturday. Blankenship beat out David Marvin, a graduate transfer from Wofford. Coach Kirby Smart says Blankenship won the job with his consistency through preseason practice. Blankenship made 14 of 18 field goal attempts as a freshman in 2016. Smart also announced redshirt freshman outside linebacker Chauncy Manac will transfer to Garden City (Kansas) Community College.
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  • Lexington Police mark one year of body camera use

    Lexington Police mark one year of body camera use
    LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington Police have been using cameras for about one year. More than half of their force has them, including all patrol officers, and most of their special ops officers. "We've used it to help with criminal investigations, help officers prepare for testimony in court, used them to resolve complaints of misconduct by officers. It's really an unbiased third party that's there for the incident," noted Commander Eric Lowe. The cameras have captured more than 212,000 inci..
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  • This Kentucky college is the No. 1 ranked liberal arts school in the ...

    This Kentucky college is the No. 1 ranked liberal arts school in the ...
    For the second year in a row, Berea College has been named the top liberal arts college in the United States. This ranking, however, is not from U.S. News and World Report, and it doesn’t look at ACT scores or the size of a school’s endowment. Instead, Washington Monthly’s 12th annual college ranking judges schools on how well they serve low-income and first-generation college students, the kinds of jobs graduates get, and how much public service they perform. “Unlike the prestige- and wealth-d..
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  • The new high school is open. Take a look at Lexington's next ...

    The new high school is open. Take a look at Lexington's next ...
    On Monday, the Fayette County school board approved the design development documents for the construction of a new elementary school at 4701 Athens-Boonesboro Road. Myron Thompson, district senior operations and support director, provided a draft rendering from EOP Architects of the new school set to open for the 2019-20 school year. Construction could start in spring 2018, Thompson said at Monday’s regular monthly school board meeting, The school, with an estimated construction cost of $21.7 m..
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  • Fabian's single leads Augusta to 7-6 win over Lexington

    Fabian's single leads Augusta to 7-6 win over Lexington
    LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Sandro Fabian hit a two-run single in the ninth inning, leading the Augusta GreenJackets to a 7-6 win over the Lexington Legends on Tuesday.The single by Fabian capped a four-run inning and gave the GreenJackets a 7-6 lead after Carlos Garcia hit a two-run home run earlier in the inning.Michael Bernal hit an RBI double in the fourth inning to help give the GreenJackets a 3-1 lead. The Legends came back to take a 6-3 lead in the fourth inning when they exploded for five ru..
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  • Police pursuit from Shelby County to Lexington ends in fiery crash ...

    Police pursuit from Shelby County to Lexington ends in fiery crash ...
    Police pursuit from Shelby County to Lexington ends in fiery crash, pedestrian hit Kentucky State Police are charging a driver involved in a multi-county chase with murder after they say he crashed a stolen truck, killing a homeless man. Brooke Hasch , WHAS 5:19 PM. EDT August 29, 2017 Nathaniel Harper (Photo: Prater, Brooke) FRANKLIN CO., Ky. (WHAS11) -- Kentucky State Police has charged the driver in a multi-county chase with murder after they say he crash..
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Lexington man injured in overnight fire .Judge rules against owners of failed Lexington restaurant .
Lexington police: School employee arrested for having sex with a ... .House damaged after more reports of shots fired in Lexington .

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