Nada Lombard PO News

A man was killed and female passenger was hurt after a pickup truck crashed just short of plunging into the Red River in Powell County Monday morning.

Wanda Wilson was leaving the Irvine Save-A-Lot when two people in a car next to her went after her purse, which was hanging around her arm.

The Red River Gorge, a popular recreation area in danger of being "loved to death," will be getting some help to stay clean.

A 17-year-old male Madison Central High School student is charged with first-degree assault after an apparent stabbing Thursday in a cooking laboratory at the school. Richmond police locked down the school for most of the afternoon after what they referred to as an “altercation” which took place around 12:15 p.m. in a food lab in the family and consumer sciences department, said Sgt. Willard Reardon, Richmond Police Department spokesman.