Georgetown News

On Friday, May 25, 2012 at 4:33 p.m. the Kentucky State Police Frankfort Post arrested Leann M. Phillips, age 47 of Versailles, KY.

The wind delicately blew. The sun was shining. Every queen candidate at Pine Mountain State Resort Park's Laurel Cove Amphitheater wore a smile on her face during the 79th annual Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival Queen's Coronation Ceremony.

There's no shortage of sites to see along Lexington's New Circle Road, but when Joe Groves approached the Leestown exit Friday, a few words on a billboard in black text, caught him by surprise.

While many Lexingtonians launch their Memorial Day weekend by firing up the grill on Saturday, Gray Lang Jr.

When ordering by the plate, diners at Brooks BBQ No. 2 get a meat and two sides.

Kentucky State Police and the Georgetown Fire Department are seeking help from the public in an arson investigation at the Elkhorn Plaza.

As the Wall Street Journal reported , the Japanese automaker will add a 300,000-square-foot facility and 125 jobs in Alabama to expand engine production.

Marcella Graves Houck, 90, of Gallipolis, Ohio, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Abbyshire Place, Gallipolis, Ohio.

A woman attempting to flee a scene and threatening to run over Georgetown police officers after a domestic incident was shot late Sunday night, Georgetown police said.

A manufacturing executive from Scott County is in jail after being arrested with more than $50,000 worth of methanphetamine.

Toyota announced a $30 million investment in its Georgetown, Kentucky plant a week and a half ago to increase engine production by 100,000 units.

Georgetown police say they've found a common motive behind five major crimes in the past two weeks, and say most of them are drug related The latest crime was a home invasion Wednesday night on Dorchester Drive just north of the bypass.

Police want to find four people who broke into a home and tied up a woman during a robbery.

A Scott County widow filed suit against the maker of a space heater that firefighters say started a fire that killed her husband last February.

Norfolk Southern Trains pass through the tracks off Lisle Road at the Fayette-Scott County line dozens of times a day.

The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority board approved tax incentives for companies, including CafPress and Tiffany and Company Jewelers, that are considering or finalizing new investments in the state.

We now have an opportunity for a Full-time Family Practice Physician to join our employer health center located in Georgetown, KY .

The Fayette County coroner's office has ruled that the domestic-violence related shooting of a Lexington man was a homicide.

Cory Martin Gaines, 21, of Georgetown, was charged with five counts of possession of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor and five counts of distribution of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor.

After the success of theater and performance studies professor Ed Smith's first film, Surviving Guthrie , in 2008, he wanted to make another movie.