Lexington News

LEXINGTON, Ky., June 1 -- The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development issued the following news release: Governor Steve Beshear today announced Xact Communications will establish its U.S. and international headquarters in Lexington, creating 20 new, full-time jobs and investing $1.57 million in the Commonwealth.

Firefighters tried their best to save two cats lives after they were trapped in a house fire.

Well-known Lexington attorney T. Bruce Simpson Jr. has switched firms, leaving McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie & Kirkland after eight years for Stoll Keenon Ogden.

Law enforcement and Ft. Campbell soldiers ran down W. Vine St. on their way to Phoenix Park on Friday, June 1, 2012 in Lexington, Ky.

The Division of Community Corrections is accepting applications for a third class of recruits until July 6. Applications are being accepted at Lexingtonky.gov. A class of new Fayette County Detention Center officers graduated with a little more pomp and circumstance than usual at a ceremony Friday at the Kentucky Theatre.

Steve Davis, right, of Landmark Sprinkler, took measurements Friday at Joseph-Beth in the area that used to house music.

The rain came down in buckets at times over the past 12-18 hours. In Lexington we picked up over 1". Now the rain is across Eastern Kentucky and will slowly diminish through the afternoon, while in Lexington we can just expect a cloudy, cool and breezy afternoon with temperatures hovering around

An update on the death of Ray Fields, Jr. is coming up. And - it feels more like April than June in the Bluegrass, with temperatures not expected to get out of the mid-60s Friday.

The motorcyclist killed in a Thursday night crash with a car has been identified as Ray Fields Jr.

LEXINGTON, KY A controversial billboard has been torn down and vandalized less than a week after it went up.

The Historic Bell Theater in downtown Pineville will host the WoodSongs Coffeehouse Concert series the second Saturday of each month beginning June 9 with a show by Michael Johnathan of Woodsongs fame.

Lexington pilots Gray and Graeme Lang, who left Georgetown on Sunday to fly their twin-engine Beechcraft airplane to England, reached Wick, Scotland Thursday.

TeleHealth Holdings of San Antonio was given preliminary approval for $800,000 in state tax incentives Thursday by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to encourage the move.

A once-neglected, weed-infested greenway winding through the heart of Lexington's McConnell's Trace neighborhood reopened Thursday as a restored walking path, with native plants and flower beds.

A local group is getting recognition for helping save lives during the March tornadoes.

The billboard on New Circle Road first appeared last week and cited Bible passages beneath the statements "Homosexuality is an abomination" and "Abortion is murder." The billboard, which listed a phone number for Bluegrass Church of Christ in Scott County, was missing Thursday morning.

The Rudies, from left: co-founder and vocalist Jerrod Figgs, drummer Tim Welch, bassist Steve Cherry and guitarist Jeff Rice.

The long-anticipated south Lexington location of a public health clinic will be on Southland Drive across from the Good Foods Coop.

Andrew Wood, who was fired in January, filed the suit against Jessamine County Fiscal Court and Jerry Domidion, director of Jessamine County Emergency Medical Services, the department that operates the county ambulances.

When: 5-6:30 p.m. June 8, Temple Adath Israel, 124 N. Ashland Ave.; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 9, Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, 3564 Clays Mill Rd.; 1-5 p.m. June 10, St.