London News

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer London City Council members on Monday began the process for a smoking ban and heard a plea for annexation by residents of a local subdivision.

A Virginia man is in the Laurel County Detention Center after leading London Police on a high speed chase on Interstate 75 in a stolen car.

While London police officers tried to serve a warrant charging him with a medley of sodomy-related crimes, a London man went to his bathroom window with his .38-caliber handgun and took aim.

Though he has admitted to investigators that he robbed Hometown Bank of Corbin in March, George Nathan Lyttle pleaded not guilty to federal charges Wednesday in U.S. District Court in London.

What started out as a follow-up on complaints of meth being made and sold at a home on Pearl Street ended with the arrest of five people on meth-related charges Wednesday.

London Police say it was a tense couple of hours Monday night after a man wanted for sexually abusing a child shot at them.

The London-Laurel County Planning and Zoning Commission approved a zoning change at its June 26 meeting.

Since classical music started formally being performed in Laurel County, Billy Farmer has been part of the action.

An East Bernstadt man was killed and two others were seriously injured in a two-car crash at the intersection of KY 3434 and KY 3094 in East Bernstadt Friday afternoon.

A Pulaski County man was indicted on federal charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.

Ivy Brashear / Staff Writer London native and Louisville lawyer, John David Dyche, has spent five years writing a political biography about Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell.

A man has been shot and killed after a chase involving a southern Kentucky sheriff's department. James Ernest Goforth attempted to elude law enforcement officers in a dangerous vehicle chase. After wrecking his vehicle he fled on foot and was pursued by Deputy Richard Sapcut. Goforth pulled a weapon on the deputy who opened fire in self defense.

Tennessee police say an escaped inmate from a Mississippi prison was taken into custody in the shooting of a Nashville police officer, a Laurel County native, who was in critical condition Friday.

A top elected official's limousine was found in possession of an alleged Bell County drug dealer yesterday during a drug raid by the Bell County Sheriff's Department.

Authorities say a Laurel County a sheriff's deputy fatally shot a suspect during an altercation early Friday in southeastern Kentucky. James Ernest Goforth was fugitive in two Kentucky counties. He led deputies on a chase, before bailing out of his vehicle and continue to flee on foot. After a short foot chase, Goforth stopped running, pulled a weapon, and turned to kill the deputy. Deputy Sapcut fearing for his life discharged his firearm striking Goforth in the front of the neck.

A Nashville, Tenn. Metro Police officer who was critically shot Thursday following a routine traffic stop is a London, Ky.

Police are investigating after the body of an elderly London man was found in the water near the Wood Creek boat dock in Laurel County Thursday morning.

Thanks to information from Forcht Bank employees, London Police arrested a would-be bank robber outside Forcht Bank on KY 1006.

The long arm of the law reached out and grabbed a short-sighted thief when he ran out of gas while trying to flee from police.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor Two men were charged with misdemeanor cultivation of marijuana on Wednesday after citizen tips came into the Kentucky State Police Post 11 in London.