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Lexington police officer suspended, two others disciplined at council meeting
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council on Thursday approved three employee discipline cases — two from the police department and one from the fire department — including a one-day suspension for a police officer cited for repeated failures to communicate professionally with the public. Officer Caleb Croney received the most severe punishment of the three,…
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Lexington planners approve 55-lot subdivision near historic Black neighborhood, OK senior housing over residents’ objections
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a 55-lot single-family subdivision on Price Road while directing residents of the adjacent historic St. Martins Village to take their fight over street connectivity to the Urban County Council. In a separate and more contentious vote, the commission approved a 45-unit affordable senior…
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One Man’s Brave Stand Against the Genitals That Haunt Him (Commentary)
State Representative Ryan Dotson wants you to know that he is running for the United States Congress. He wants you to know he’s a veteran, a pastor, and a God-fearing man. But above all else (truly, above all else) he wants you to know that he has thought very deeply about penises. Not his…
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Lexington homelessness task force weighs shelter models, hears plea to address ‘different faces’ of crisis
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Members of the Mayor’s Task Force to End Homelessness on Wednesday heard a presentation from a Nashville organization that shelters 800 people a night on a $15 million privately funded budget, and grappled with how to design solutions that serve not just the chronically homeless but also families, the elderly and…
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Lexington police, fire pension fund tops $1 billion as board reviews Q4 returns, honors fallen members
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Police and Fire Pension Fund has surpassed $1 billion in total assets and closed 2025 with a 12.5% annual return, investment consultants told the retirement board Wednesday during its quarterly meeting. The fund’s value stood at roughly $1.099 billion as of Monday, Treasurer Chad reported, up…
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Lexington Mayor Gorton Says City Must Rethink Winter Strategy After Ice Storm Paralyzes Roads for Nearly Two Weeks
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mayor Linda Gorton acknowledged in a radio interview Thursday that Lexington’s winter weather plan is inadequate for the ice storms that have battered the city two years running and said the city will develop a new severe-weather strategy by studying how peer cities in the Midwest handle ice and extreme cold.…
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Lexington woman pleads guilty in $691,000 wire fraud case tied to Paris horse farm
A Lexington woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to wire fraud after prosecutors said she spent nearly seven years charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses to a horse farm’s business credit card, including airline tickets, designer clothing and a country club membership. Christina Lynch admitted in U.S. District Court for…
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Lexington drug company executives indicted in alleged wire fraud scheme tied to failed cancer drug
Two executives of a Lexington-based biopharmaceutical company have been indicted in federal court, accused of running a years-long scheme that prosecutors say misled investors about the prospects of a cancer drug that never received FDA approval. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky on Wednesday charged W. Michael Putnam, the founder…
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KY-06 emerges as potential battleground as Democrats cite national overperformance
Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District is being privately discussed by national Democrats as a potential battleground ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to a Democratic Party official familiar with the party’s targeting strategy. The reassessment follows what party officials describe as a “historic overperformance” by Democrats in a recent Texas special election, where a…
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The Lexington Houses Where Workers Couldn’t Leave: Inside a Forced Labor Ring That Operated for Years
“This wasn’t charged as a human trafficking case, but probably could have been, given the facts.” U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove at Serafin Bayona‘s May 2025 sentencing hearing For at least two years, a forced labor operation ran out of ordinary-looking homes in Lexington neighborhoods—a brick ranch on Ascot Park, a townhouse on…