Frankfort News

Photo By AP/Alex BrandonRep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., center, flanked by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, and Rep.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - "Until now, we had been encouraged by the possibility of Harley-Davidson coming to Kentucky.

Photo By Kelly MackeyFrankfort Plant Board employee Troy Perry puts lights on the Christmas Tree in front of the Capitol.

FRANKFORT, Ky.. - Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. But if your job is to listen to and report on Frankfort political leaders it's hard to get into the spirit.

Two retirees who sold more than $1 million in knock-off merchandise and a suspended lawyer who failed to report her income have been indicted by the Franklin County grand jury for tax fraud.

A Frankfort policeman dozed off at the wheel Friday and suffered a minor leg injury in a collision that severely damaged his cruiser, according to reports.

Responding to more inaccuracies discovered in the reporting of spending and job creation from the administration's economic stimulus plan , the top White House official charged with overseeing the program vowed today to go through the reports with a fine-toothed comb and to correct the mistakes.

Lazette Cherry wanted only to help her son, Jamar Pinkney Jr., when she called his father, and shared some of the most disturbing news she ever had heard.

Winter Garden police this afternoon continued their search for at least two men thought to be involved in a home invasion that left a woman in the hospital with a gunshot wound.

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

Nearest city: Louisville Population: 57,099 Median family income: $53,636 Runners-up: Louisville, Bowling Green Owensboro, situated on the southern bank of the Ohio River, 109 miles southwest of Louisville, is an industrial hub with aluminum, coal, steel processors, and natural gas operations.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky has borrowed roughly half a billion dollars from the federal government this year to pay benefits to unemployed workers - money the state likely will have to pay back when the economy recovers.

Authorities have released the name of a Carter County man found shot to death in his home on Monday.

Photo By Kelly MackeyRonald Willoughby drives the first Jim Beam truck across a new bridge built in May.

Directors of the Frankfort Plant Board say it will take four to five months to recruit a new general manager and cost between $30,000 and $80,000. The board is seeking a new executive after long-time general manager Warner Caines retired in September.

Beam Global Spirits & Wine says it plans to close its Cincinnati bottling plant in two years, shedding 184 jobs.

New England states top this new set of rankings, while the South still lags. This annual ranking, published by the United Health Foundation, looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths.

The nation receives a "D" Tuesday, November 17, 2009 FRANKFORT, Ky.-- Too many babies are being born too early in Kentucky.

Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.