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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…
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HDI grant to advance employer engagement strategies in vocational rehabilitation
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 2, 2025) — The University of Kentucky’s Human Development Institute (HDI) received $3.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to support a nationwide effort to engage employers and improve job opportunities for people with disabilities. The “Training Innovation Project (TIP): Demand-Side Employer Engagement Strategies in Vocational Rehabilitation” focuses on…
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Defendant in federal witness killing released to home of officer she allegedly utilized for gang intel
A federal magistrate judge has ordered the release of Casey Allison Morris, the woman prosecutors say tried to leverage her relationship with a Richmond police officer to glean inside information about a violent home-invasion investigation while her alleged gang associates plotted the murder of a federal witness. In a 15-page memorandum opinion signed Nov.…
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Health officials urge people to get a flu vaccine, with season predicted to be ‘rough’
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News Health officials are warning people to buckle up for a potentially rough flu season, warning that a strain of flu mutated over the summer and is spreading in the U.S. and other countries. The problem is that the influenza A (H3N2) strain mutation happened right before flu season, which…
