Source: KYTC District 7 Press Releases

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has scheduled additional lane closures and traffic shifts on Interstate 64 as part of an ongoing rehabilitation project affecting Fayette, Scott and Woodford counties. The $14 million project spans nine miles of I-64 and includes pavement rehabilitation, bridge repairs and bridge painting operations. New traffic impacts begin…

By Paul Oliva, Web Editor · The Lexington Times · May 16, 2026 The Editor’s Notebook is an occasional column from The Lexington Times about local coverage choices — ours, and other newsrooms’. This one is a reply to a column the Kentucky Lantern’s new editor-in-chief, Linda Blackford, published yesterday. Two valid kinds of…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky has entered into an enterprise services partnership with Compass Group, a global food and support services company, according to WUKY 91.3 FM. The long-term initiative aims to coordinate a range of services across the institution, though the partnership has prompted questions and concerns from staff members. University…

LEXINGTON, Ky. –A Chinese national lawfully residing in the United States, Hao Qiu, 39, was sentenced on Friday to 30 months by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell for international parental kidnapping.   Qiu, a citizen of China, has three children with a United States citizen who resided in Fayette County. Qiu and the children’s mother…

ASHLAND, Ky. – A Gallipolis, Ohio, man, Henry Ritscher, 44, was sentenced on Friday to 25 years by Chief U.S. District Judge David Bunning for the production of child pornography.   According to his plea agreement, on September 6, 2025, Ritscher produced child pornography of a minor child in Johnson County. Specifically, the victim discovered a…

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Education celebrated the graduation of 70 educators who completed the nationally recognized National Institute for School and System Leadership program during the 2025-2026 school year, continuing a more than 14-year partnership designed to develop transformative school leaders across the state. The NISL program, offered through a partnership…

By Shauneen Miranda, Kentucky Lantern · May 15, 2026 U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the House Committee on Education and Workforce on May 14, 2026. The hearing examined the policies and priorities of the Department of Education. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon took heat Thursday over…

It is, frankly, a very Lexington thing for the manager of a hipster-adjacent gentrification nonprofit to walk to a public-comment mic and argue that an organization helping abused children is the one with too much money. Of all the budget lines a District 10 resident could have planted a flag on, this one is…

FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Lexington, Ky., man, Kevin Ryan Straw, 40, was charged by information and pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Thursday before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove.  According to the information and his plea agreement, between 2021 and 2024, Straw served as President of Metropolitan Lodge 32, Fraternal Order of Police, based…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The operators of a day treatment program for children with behavioral and mental health needs have agreed to a civil judgment of $15,248,240.66 in favor of the United States to resolve allegations that they defrauded the Kentucky and Ohio Medicaid programs. The judgment, announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is…