Thursday, April 7, 2016

Police, school investigate harassment report at Lexington Catholic and other top stories.

  • Police, school investigate harassment report at Lexington Catholic

    Lexington police are investigating a possible case of “terroristic threatening and harassing communications” after a complaint was filed by the mother of a Lexington Catholic High School student on behalf of her son.The Key Newsjournal reported Wednesday that a black Lexington Catholic student was harassed by teammates on the school’s football team. The Key Newsjournal reported that Denisha Vinegar said she found threatening messages to her son, DaMarco, on his computer. Vinegar said the messag..
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  • Former Lexington council member Julian Beard dies

    Former Lexington council member Julian Beard dies
    Julian Beard, a former city councilman and former economic development director for Lexington, died Tuesday at his home. Beard, 78, was economic development director under Mayor Teresa Isaac and later served on the Urban County Council from 2007 to 2014. Beard left his position as economic development director when he won the seat for the 4th District, which includes neighborhoods between Tates Creek and Nicholasville roads from the University of Kentucky Arboretum to Man o’ War Boulevard. Bear..
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  • Overhaul of farmland preservation tax break dies in legislature

    Overhaul of farmland preservation tax break dies in legislature
    Legislation aimed at limiting Kentucky’s agricultural preservation tax break to working farms died without a hearing in this year’s legislative session, but discussion of the issue will continue, officials said Thursday morning. “We have just begun the conversation,” said David Beck, executive vice president of the Kentucky Farm Bureau, who spoke on the topic at a gathering of Lexington business people, along with Fayette Property Valuation Administrator David O’Neill and David Gordon, the Depa..
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  • Visitation taking place for Lexington couple killed in Brussels

    Visitation taking place for Lexington couple killed in Brussels
    Friends and family are saying goodbye to a Lexington woman and her husband killed in the Brussels terror attack.Visitation was held Thursday evening for Justin and Stephanie Shults at Southland Church on Harrodsburg Road in Lexington.They were killed when suicide bombers detonated bombs in Brussels' airport last month.At the time, the couple were waiting in the departure gate area, saying goodbye to Stephanie's mother when the bombs went off.Another visitation will be held Friday from 10 a.m. t..
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  • Detroit man charged with Lexington murder to appear in court

    Detroit man charged with Lexington murder to appear in court
    Lexington, Ky. (WKYT) - The Detroit man accused of murder in a fatal January shooting in Lexington will arrive in court Thursday afternoon for the first time in the case. U.S. Marshals apprehended Devonte Martez Hobbs on March 22 in Detroit, Michigan. Officers charged Hobbs, 21, with the murder of Timothy Brown Jr. and first-degree robbery . Brown, 23, was shot and killed on January 12 in the parking lot of McDonald's on Russell Cave Road. Brown had agreed to meet with Hobbs on the January d..
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  • Country Boy honors late Merle Haggard on bottom of beer can

    Country Boy honors late Merle Haggard on bottom of beer can
    The news hit Country Boy’s warehouse crew hard: Country legend Merle Haggard had died. On the road. On his 79th birthday.So Thursday morning, as warehouse worker Steve Caudill was firing up the canning line, he added a memento: a date stamp on the bottom of cans of Cougar Bait that read “R.I.P. Merle.” “The guys in the back in the house … are big country music fans, and it wasn’t planned, but it just happened,” said Daniel Harrison, one of Country Boy’s owners. They texted him a photo and it ju..
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