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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Federal agents say three men accused of being in the U.S. illegally were caught leaving the Mount Sterling Court Days festival with trash bags full of rifles and handguns, leading to their arrests on federal firearm charges. According to an affidavit filed Sunday by an ATF Special Agent, the arrests took…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 17, 2025) — Federal prosecutors have charged Renato Benites Echegaray of Lexington with conspiring to distribute more than a pound of cocaine after agents seized drugs and cash from multiple homes linked to him, according to a newly filed criminal complaint. A sworn affidavit from DEA Task Force Officer Zachary Travis…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kevin Hall, a co-owner of HRS Autocare in Jessamine County, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge alleging he withheld payroll taxes from employees for years but didn’t turn the money over to the IRS, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington. The…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Superintendent Demetrus Liggins of Fayette County Public Schools has charged nearly $152,000 in expenses to taxpayers over a 28-month period, according to an analysis by the Lexington Herald-Leader. The spending includes $28,000 on food, $44,000 on hotels, $8,000 on airfare, nearly 30 trips to destinations across the U.S. — from California…

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Board of Adjustment on Monday will weigh a slate of short-term rental permits — including two flagged for denial over past violations — and two setback variances that could reshape corners of Picadome and Smithtown. Several un-hosted short-term rentals are up for conditional use permits, a recurring flashpoint as Lexington…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury has indicted six men in the 2023 shooting death of Kristopher “Kris” Lewis, alleging they carried out a murder-for-hire scheme to stop him from testifying in a pending federal case, according to court records unsealed last week. The indictment, returned Oct. 2 and unsealed Oct. 8 in…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A former Federal Medical Center Lexington employee pleaded guilty Monday to a federal bribery charge, admitting she accepted $18,602 to smuggle tobacco and synthetic marijuana into the prison in 2023 and 2024, according to a plea agreement filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. A. Jade…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two separate federal drug prosecutions in the Eastern District of Kentucky moved toward guilty pleas this week, and newly filed plea papers spell out how agents say each case unfolded — from a 28-kilogram cocaine load steered to a Lexington garage to a Georgetown house where police reported finding more than…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A federal judge has thrown out a Lexington man’s civil-rights lawsuit against a city homicide detective, ruling police had enough evidence to arrest him in a 2021 shooting even though a grand jury later declined to indict. In a memorandum opinion signed Sept. 29, 2025, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove…