Frankfort News

Around 700 people showed up on the state Capitol steps on Independence Day to stage their own TEA Party and voice their displeasure with policies of President Barack Obama and Congress.

Hundreds of Kentuckians carrying flags, signs and brown-bag lunches gathered at the Capitol steps to protest taxes and government as part of a national effort known as the "tea party" movement.

The Kentucky Board of Education has narrowed the list of candidates for state education commissioner to four candidates.

A former Frankfort youth minister has been indicted on more than a dozen sex-related charges.

Firefighters in Frankfort were busy putting out a fire early Friday. It happened around 2:30 a.m. at a house on Airdrie Lane.

Power was restored to about 800 customers in South Frankfort by about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday after a tree fell on utility lines at Lafayette Drive.

The Kentucky State Police have issued a Golden Alert in an attempt to locate a missing elderly male.

Power has been restored to areas of South Frankfort after an outage shortly after noon.

A pickup truck sits on the side of Interstate 64 as a state police officer calls in information after the truck reportedly rear-ended a flatbed tractor-trailer carrying two large spools of cable.

Kentucky State University could open a boarding school aimed at preparing African American males for college as soon as 2010, according to President Mary Sias.

The University of Kentucky has asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss former UK basketball coach Billy Gillispie's lawsuit or at least move the case to a Kentucky courtroom.

When the Kentucky Association of Counties sent six people to Washington, D.C., in March 2008 to attend a conference and lobby officials, the $31,700 trip included two dinners totaling $4,277 and a $10,000 cancellation fee for hotel rooms that weren't used.

A Winchester teen, Michelle Rodgers, has been named America's Junior Miss 2009. It's the second time in three years that a woman from Kentucky has taken top honors in the national scholastic competition.

The budget HB1 approved by the House appropriations committee Monday included $3.2 million for renovations at Frankfort High School and $7.5 million for Kentucky State University, but also saves state holidays.

State officials say a company in south-central Kentucky plans to expand and create 200 jobs.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Lawmakers in Kentucky's House are spending about $230,000 to renovate office space at the Capitol Annex despite the state's expected $1 billion budget shortfall.

An elderly visitor to a Frankfort nursing home has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a patient at the facility during the visit.

All this talk about saving money... What do you guys think about a city officer leaving his car running with the A/C on while he goes in t oget groceries...for an hour!? And no, it wasn't a K-9 unit.

The City Commission voted 3-2 Monday to reduce and phase out city employees' longevity pay over the next three years then eliminate it.

Brendon Lyons, 6, rinses mud from under his armpits after he ran in the Dash for Cash as Tyler Lacy and Austin Wynn wait their turn in line at Muddina for Cancer.