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LEXINGTON, Ky. — High-speed internet is technically reachable at 99 percent of serviceable addresses in Fayette County. But when the city of Lexington asked residents whether they actually had reliable and affordable access at home, nearly four in 10 said no. That contradiction sits at the center of a sweeping draft plan the Lexington-Fayette…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general has ruled that the Fayette County Detention Center violated the state’s Open Records Act when it denied a public defender investigator’s request for jail policy documents without citing the proper legal authority for the denial. In Opinion 26-ORD-108, issued March 19, 2026, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office found…

Quincino Waide Jr. says prosecutors escalated pressure over 18 months, then indicted him after he repeatedly declined to talk LEXINGTON, Ky. — A man charged as an accessory in the federal murder-for-hire prosecution of a Lexington street gang asked a judge Monday to throw out the charge, arguing that prosecutors indicted him only because…

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Fayette County Commonwealth’s Attorney has formally urged a Kentucky House impeachment committee to remove Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman from the bench, delivering a pointed 11-page letter to lawmakers that accuses the judge of harboring a deep and documented bias against prosecutors — and of conducting what one appellate court called…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A secretive advocacy group calling itself “Concerned Citizens of Chevy Chase” has been running an online campaign urging residents to oppose a proposed mental health facility in the Chevy Chase neighborhood — characterizing it as a “drug rehab clinic” despite official planning documents and the facility’s own executives describing it as…

In 2011, the city created a task force to fight a rash of shootings. In 2017, a mayor proposed something different — a program that would wrap its arms around the neighborhoods doing the shooting. By 2025, gun violence had dropped to its lowest level in a decade. On October 13, 2011, Mayor Jim…

In 2018, the city created one coordinator to fight an epidemic that was killing 200 people a year. By 2024, fatal overdoses had dropped 43 percent. The $7 million in settlement money still hasn’t been spent. On April 12, 2018, Dr. Svetla Slavova walked to the podium at a Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council meeting…