Burgin News

Where: Ride starts at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond and ends at Man O War Harley-Davidson with stops in Burgin, Nicholasville and Versailles.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Drunk driving was the linking factor in two separate cases from this month's Laurel County grand jury, which charged Miranda Knowles with murder and Johnny McKinney with bribery of a public servant.

A freak accident Sunday afternoon killed a Mercer County man. The coroner tells 27NEWSFIRST, 25-year-old Anthony Woodard of Burgin was attempting to cut down a tree in the Mallards Cove Community, when it fell on top of him.

Fire crews in Mercer County had their hands full Wednesday morning after a lightning strike hit a storage facility and set it on fire.

A woman has been hit by a boat on Herrington Lake. The Burgin Fire Department is on the way out to Nelson Marina off Highway 33 at the Boyle/Mercer County.

There was an old-fashioned "barn-raising" Thursday at Burgin Elementary School. The school's 36 fifth-graders learned how to erect a scale model of a timber-frame barn in the school gym.

A former Kentucky State University football coach who is in a superintendent training program with Burgin Independent Schools has been selected as the superintendent of Marion County Schools.

Former Kentucky State University football coach Donald Smith has been named superintendent of Marion County Public Schools.

Times-Tribune Staff Report A Thursday afternoon wreck on KY 192 in front of the London Country Club has claimed the life of a London teenager.

Area church briefs for March 20 including Berea Christian Church, Danville Unit of Church Women United, Grace PCA Church, Ellisburg Baptist Church, St.

Mounds of tree limbs and branches line many streets in Mercer County. All cleaned up from yards..and waiting to be picked up..from a devastating act of nature.

Some legislators want to rebuild state testing, which could put students in better shape for college.

Kynt Cothron and Vyxsin Fiala will leave their Hollywood digs to return home for the Carl Casper Auto Show Friday, Feb.

Jewell Robbins, the Jessamine County woman who has frequently tangled with regulators for selling shares in the 1901 Spindletop oil strike, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of failing to register with the ...

A mother and daughter are in the hospital after an early Thursday morning fire in Mercer County.

A house fire in Mercer County has sent two people to the hospital. It started just before 2 a.m. Thursday at 116 Main Street in Burgin.

BURGIN - If you give Jacody Taylor an inch, he will take a mile. Taylor scored 26 points, including 17 during the third quarter after host Burgin rallied to grab a 35-32 lead, and the Admirals captured their ...

Sandy Burgin, a bus driver from Louisville, KY, is one of the 16 castaways set to compete in SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS- THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS when the eighteenth installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series ...

Area news briefs for January 11 regarding the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Kentucky Consumer Advocacy Network, Burgin City Council, Danville/ Boyle County Chamber of Commerce's Office After Hours, ...

BURGIN - Burgin City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase property at 200 Main St.