Lexington News

What: Fund-raiser for Lexington Public Library featuring authors Hooman Majd, Sallie Bingham, Kim Edwards, Cynthia Ellingsen, Maggie Green, David King, Bobbie Ann Mason and James C. Nicholson.

Four McLean County office holders won't be getting any pay raises until 2016. According to our news partner WJBC Radio and information provided by McLean County, the county board Tuesday voted to set raises between one and two percent for the circuit clerk, coroner, auditor and recorder in 2016 but their salaries remain frozen until then.

Lexington is at the top of the list of American cities ranked by their purchase of e-readers, otherwise known as the "Kindle Index." The list was compiled by The Atlantic's mobile Web site's columnist on consumer buying habits, Rohin Dhar of Priceeconomics.com Dhar reasoned that the city that bought the most e-readers "must surely be the most elite ... (more)