Ky. House panel approves bill for hotel-tax increase in Lexington
With Gov. Matt Bevin’s blessing, a state House panel approved a bill Thursday that would allow Lexington’s Urban County Council to pass an additional 2.5 percent transient room tax to help pay for expanding Lexington Convention Center.State budget director John E. Chilton told members of the House Economic Development Committee before they voted on House Bill 441 that Bevin is “very much in favor” of the measure.Two committee members, both Republicans, voted against the bill, which now goes to..>> view originalLexington firefighter battling cancer in Chicago thanks Kentuckians ...
CHICAGO, Il (WKYT) - There's one fewer firefighter at Lexington's Fire Station 8. "He's up for the fight and we're here to help him," said Captain Dustin Whited. It looks like Firefighter Matt Logsdon just stepped away from his locker, ready to return any minute, but he's 400 miles away at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Chicago. "They're still in, I guess, a fact-finding phase, trying to make sure they get the right diagnosis," Logsdon said. This all began in late January. Matt had s..>> view original77-year-old Lexington woman fights off intruder
Lexington, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington Police continue to search for a man who they say broke into a home on Marcellus Drive overnight. 77-year-old Marietta Shields says she woke up to an intruder in her living room in the middle of the night on Wednesday. "He opened the window. I got up, came in here and there he was," says Marietta. Marietta said the intruder had a gun and she couldn't see his face. "He pushed me, went in the bedroom and he pushed me. We were fighting," she said. Marietta sai..>> view originalLexington Art League figures a way forward: reinventing its nude show
In the one of the galleries at the Lexington Art League’s Loudoun House, light-blue crushed glass spills out of two identical wooden boxes arranged at an angle on the floor. Surrounded by walls of self-portraits — focused on the human form, the shape and structure of the body — the boxes, an installation piece by Louisville artist Chris Radtke called Curl, might seem out of place.Its message, however, fits with the collection. Stephanie Harris, the executive director of the Lexington Art League..>> view originalTubby Smith has changed the trajectory of Texas Tech basketball
When just one week after being axed by Minnesota in 2013 Tubby Smith agreed to be the head coach at Texas Tech, more than a few people in the college basketball world were left shaking their heads.What was Tubby thinking? Why so soon? Didn’t the then-61-year-old coach want to take some time off after 22 consecutive seasons as head coach? And why on Earth Texas Tech? Wasn’t that an impossible job at a remote spot in a ridiculously difficult hoops conference?Three years later, Smith is turning he..>> view originalLexington home badly damaged during overnight fire
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:>> view originalFive Paris officers punished, but not fired by city commissioners
Five police officers accused of spending too much time in a dispatch room will keep their jobs but will continue to be suspended without pay for several months, the Paris City Commission decided Thursday morning.Paris Police Chief Rob Williams had suspended the five Feb. 9 and had recommended to the city commission that they be fired. Williams said the officers should have been on the street patrolling rather than sitting in the dispatch room.But the city commission opted for lesser punishments..>> view originalBill allowing companies to deny services to gays advances
Kentucky businesses could refuse services to gay, lesbian or transgender clients in the name of protecting religious beliefs under a bill advancing in the state Senate.The bill comes after the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission ordered a Christian T-shirt company to get diversity training for refusing to print shirts for a gay pride festival. A state judge overturned the order, but an appeals court is reviewing the case."All of these business owners want to treat everyone wi..>> view originalBasketball: 11th Region Tournament participants set
The 11th Region Tournaments are sort of set.All of the participants have been determined. Now all that’s left are the eight district championship games, which will guide pairings for the random draw to take place on Saturday.The girls’ tournament gets underway on Monday with the boys’ set to tip on Wednesday. Both will be played at the Alumni Coliseum on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University.Boys’ field41st District: Franklin County, Woodford County (finals at 8:15 p.m. Friday, Frankfort Co..>> view originalPlanning commission denies zone change for apartments near ...
Lexington’s planning commission denied a zoning change Thursday for two apartment buildings off Higbee Mill Road and Cornwall Drive after hearing widespread opposition from neighboring residents. Turwell LLC had proposed building two, 2-story buildings at 1580 Higbee Mill Road. Turwell had originally proposed 48 units but deceased the number of units to 32 with 64 bedrooms after hearing complaints from the neighbors. Turwell had requested that the zoning change from a townhouse residential, cal..>> view original
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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