Bedford News

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Among the changes made to the budget bill last week was one that had nothing to do with the budget: a little-noticed provision that apparently will resolve a controversy over membership of the Mountain Water District board in Pike County.

A southern Indiana man is facing charges that he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a Kentucky high school student.

The new fire engine has been washed, dried and backed into the bay at the Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department.

This list is intended only as a basic list of names and information to provide an early alert to friends and well wishers.

I had a massive heart attack a few weeks back: No news there. People have them all the time.

On Thursday, May 21, 2009 at approximately 5:40 a.m. the Kentucky State Police responded to a robbery and home invasion in Milton, Kentucky.

The Oldham County History Center is having an archaeology investigation at a historic site in Trimble County.

When surveyor Brad Andrew Jr. needs to get maps and other large files off the Internet, he drives from his home near Bedford, Ky., to the Trimble County Public Library, where he can get high-speed service.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The House yesterday easily passed a bill to keep the state gas tax from declining, then approved a road construction plan that requires the revenue generated under the current tax rate.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Key officials are meeting this week to determine how to spend as much as $421 million in economic-stimulus funds to build and repair roads and bridges throughout the state.

The squall line is heading into Baltimore and Washington and radar is showing very strong winds with gusts over 60 mph coming into the cities.

Willie Johnson has a filmmaker's eye, a historian's heart and a day-job as counselor with the Jefferson County Public Schools Assessment.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A recent change in how the National Automobile Dealers Association determines the values of used cars could cost Kentucky and its local governments millions of dollars in property-tax ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky Department of Revenue has decided to continue valuing vehicles for property-tax purposes as it has in recent years -- averting a significant loss of revenue to both state and ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Beshear administration's budget office has asked state agencies for plans to balance their budgets if spending cuts are much deeper than the governor proposed last month.

Donald E. Williams, age 72, of Bedford, KY, formerly of Mansfield, OH, passed away Sunday, January 18, 2009.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The pledges from all sides of bipartisan cooperation held up through last week's initial round of legislative committee hearings on the state's projected $456 million revenue shortfall.

If Shanda R. Sharer's mother could say one thing to her daughter today, it would be, "I miss you." Shanda was killed in 1992 at age 12 when four teenage girls, then ages 15 to 17, abducted, beat and raped her ...

Governor Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half staff tomorrow in honor of a Kentucky Marine.

According to police, a Louisville man has been arrested for having "a pocket full of counterfeit money." Markell Blackburn was arrested at the Phoenix Hill Tavern, where officers say they found the 23-year-old ...