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‘I am a UK Innovator’: Pigman College of Engineering’s Guoqiang Yu
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 4, 2025) — Innovation is most powerful when discoveries move beyond the lab to improve patient care. Research Communications partnered with UK Innovate to spotlight faculty innovators with pioneering ideas at the University of Kentucky. UK Innovate works collaboratively with innovators to strategically assess, protect and license early-stage technologies and co-create new technology…
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17-year-old charged in Ward Drive shooting
A 17-year-old juvenile has been charged in connection with a shooting that occurred in October on Ward Drive. On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, around 5:46 pm, officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Ward Drive for a shooting with a victim. When officers arrived, they located a 22-year-old male victim who had been…
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Federal prison lieutenant pleads guilty to falsifying records in cover-up of inmate assault
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Former USP Big Sandy lieutenant Michael J. Childers pleaded guilty Monday to a federal felony for falsifying records in what prosecutors describe as a coordinated cover-up of an April 2021 assault on a vulnerable inmate seeking protective custody. Childers, 37, entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins after…
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Lakeshore Drive Assault Investigation
One person has been arrested after an assault that occurred last night on Lakeshore Drive. On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, around 7:08 pm, officers were dispatched to a residence in the 100 block of Lakeshore Drive for unknown trouble. When officers arrived, they located a male victim with life-threatening injuries from an assault. The…
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City Hall Plan Passes 8–7 After Emotional Testimony and a Divided Council
In one of the closest and most contentious votes in recent Lexington memory, the Urban County Council on Tuesday approved an $86 million plan to move City Hall to 200 W. Vine St., advancing a long-discussed project after nearly two hours of impassioned public comment warning that the city was prioritizing workspace for government…
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Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions – here’s how its carbon capture tech works
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center.…
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2025 Rural Writing Contest Best Essay: ‘God, Guns, and Baseball’
I found my fourth grade class picture from 1986. Aside from the graininess of the photo and the feathered hairstyles on some of the girls, it could be hard to distinguish that the photo is more than thirty-five years old. Sure, the world has made huge technological advances with the invention of digital cameras…
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City crews to monitor roads throughout the evening
Streets & Roads and Water Quality crews continue to treat neighborhood roads that are included in the snow plan. Several crews from the day shift will stay on until 8 p.m. to treat any problem areas, while the night crew will report and handle all calls as needed until 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3. …
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New nutritional science opportunity at UK helps expand medical students’ education
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 2, 2025) — Two students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine have had unique learning and training opportunities thanks to generous contributions to a new gift account. Sara Police, Ph.D., director of Nutritional Sciences Education, is managing the gifted funds. They’ve allowed Police to work closely with medical students Elizabeth McCauley…
