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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…

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…