Friday, January 29, 2016

Commerce Lexington presents awards to leaders and other top stories.

  • Commerce Lexington presents awards to leaders

    Commerce Lexington presents awards to leaders
    Several awards were presented Thursday to recognize outstanding community leaders and volunteers at the 2016 Commerce Lexington Inc. annual dinner.The event, presented by Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance at Lexington Center, looked back at 2015 and highlighted key goals for 2016, and recognized Commerce Lexington’s most involved members, volunteers and community leaders.Awards presented during the dinner included:Ambassador of the Year: Angie Dennis, Lexington Rescue MissionWorking at Lexin..
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  • Fire breaks out at former Continental Inn in Lexington

    Fire breaks out at former Continental Inn in Lexington
    Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or fccinfo@fcc.gov. Public File Liaison: 606-436-5757 Station Contact Info:
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  • Vanderbilt women end 9-game slide against UK, 71-69

    Vanderbilt women end 9-game slide against UK, 71-69
    Give Christa Reed space and she’ll end a streak.The Vanderbilt sophomore hit back-to-back three-pointers, the first to give the Commodores the lead and the second to give them the win, 70-69 over No. 12 Kentucky in Memorial Coliseum on Thursday night.With a bloody lip and a dislodged tooth, the guard came back in the game and helped Vanderbilt end a nine-game losing streak to Kentucky that dated to 2010.“That’s who we want shooting the three,” Commodores Coach Melanie Balcomb said. “Her toughne..
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  • Bettman says enforcer John Scott 'welcome' at All-Star Game

    Bettman says enforcer John Scott 'welcome' at All-Star Game
    Hoping to defuse an awkward situation that has hovered over preparations for the NHL All-Star Game, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday that career enforcer John Scott is welcome at Sunday's showcase event.Scott said someone at the NHL tried to talk him out of playing in the league's showcase event Sunday, according to a first-person account by Scott that was posted Thursday by The Players Tribune. Fans voted the 6-foot-8 Scott as captain of the Pacific Division, but Arizona traded him to Mon..
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  • Wanton endangerment arrest in Lexington

    Wanton endangerment arrest in Lexington
    Wanton endangerment arrest in Lexington 0 Comments for this article Submitted: 01/29/2016 - 3:54am Tags: Arrest, Clarence Wallace, Hit-and-Run, Lexington, Police, Theft, wanton endangerment, Ward Drive LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Police in Lexington say a man is behind bars after hitting two parked cars and then driving off.Officers say they were called to Ward Drive, just after 2:00 a.m., on reports that someone in a white SUV had hit two parked vehicles and then drove off.  Police say witness..
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  • Powerball mania boosts Kentucky Lottery revenue

    Powerball mania boosts Kentucky Lottery revenue
    From July to December last year, the Kentucky Lottery took in $31.2 million from Powerball ticket sales. The first 13 days of January? About the same.Getting $31.5 million in two weeks is a first for the Kentucky Lottery, a result of the record-setting $1.5 billion multi-state Powerball jackpot earlier this month. “We liked those 13 days,” said Howard Kline, the Lottery’s chief financial officer. In all, the recent Powerball mania means lottery officials plan to raise their revenue for the seco..
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  • Woman leaves 'warm boxes' around Lexington to help people ...

    Woman leaves 'warm boxes' around Lexington to help people ...
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  • Zika: How to protect yourself from the mosquito-borne virus

    Zika: How to protect yourself from the mosquito-borne virus
    As the mosquito-borne Zika virus tears through Latin America and the Caribbean, health officials in the United States say it’s only a matter of time before someone is affected here.But Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that “outbreaks of Zika in the continental U.S. will likely be limited.”While the mosquito that carries the virus, Aedes aegypti, is common in South Florida, Schuchat said several factors in the United State..
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  • Syrian opposition not in Geneva on the day of peace talks

    Syrian opposition not in Geneva on the day of peace talks
    Indirect peace talks aimed at resolving Syria’s five-year conflict began Friday at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, without the participation of the main opposition group. The talks are the first since two rounds of negotiations collapsed in 2014. Syria’s conflict has killed more than 250,000 people, displaced millions and sent hundreds of thousands as refugees to Europe. The first meeting was between the U.N. Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and a government delegation headed by the ..
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  • Emperor Akihito honors Japanese war dead in Philippines

    Emperor Akihito honors Japanese war dead in Philippines
    With a mournful bow, Emperor Akihito paid his respects Friday in a war memorial in the Philippines to the largest number of Japanese invasion troops who died outside their homeland in World War II. Clad in black and accompanied by Empress Michiko, he and Michiko each laid a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, Japan’s imperial symbol, and silently prayed near a marble cenotaph in the Japanese memorial garden along Lake Caliraya in Laguna province southeast of the Philippine capital. Some of the 170..
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Lexington woman charged for leaving 'suspicious box' outside Tates ... .Lifelong renter in Lexington finally has a home to call her own .
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray running against U.S. Sen. Rand Paul .Lexington returning to normal after massive snowstorm .

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