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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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

The Mayor’s Office of Lexington is calling a local media outlet’s reporting “gutter-level journalism” following a story that examined online questions about snow removal on a residential street where Linda Gorton owns a home. The dispute stems from an article examining online speculation about why Beechmont Road, a neighborhood street designated as Priority 4…

A Benton, Kentucky, cattle farmer dies by suicide. Investigators discover tens of thousands of cattle that never existed. Twenty miles away, federal agents raid a gated riverside mansion where a crypto investor allegedly tortured a man for Bitcoin passwords — and a 13-year-old girl who only spoke German was reportedly found nearby. A private…

A Lexington man accused of running a large methamphetamine and firearms trafficking operation has agreed to plead guilty to six federal felony charges, according to a plea agreement filed this week in U.S. District Court. Martaveus Lee Bell Jr. is set to plead guilty to distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, possessing meth with intent…

Four defendants accused of traveling across multiple states to steal wallets from hospitals and universities and then rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases have pleaded guilty in federal court in Lexington, abandoning plans for a February jury trial. The case, filed last spring in the Eastern District of Kentucky, alleged…