Nicholasville News

Jessamine County Clerk Eva McDaniel has certified that there were more than enough valid signatures on a petition seeking to put the issue on the Nov.

Many have said they first met Lovitt when they were just kids and he was beginning a promising career as a Kentucky State Trooper.

The Nicholasville Planning Commission voted 6-1, with one abstention, Tuesday night to approve the preliminary plat of the Westgate Subdivisions, despite the outcry of angry residents.

A Jessamine County man died Sunday evening after he was run over by his own bush hog, which is a rotary mower attached to a tractor, according to the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office.

"Everybody knew my daddy," Farris said Saturday morning as he gently placed flowers on the graves of his parents, Morris and Mollie Farris at the historic cemetery 7 miles south of Nicholasville.

A Jessamine County constable who caught a pickup truck slamming into his home in Nicholasville early Thursday morning on surveillance video says the man allegedly behind the wheel has been arrested.

Nicholasville Council Petition Committee chairman Perry Barnes presented Jessamine County Clerk Eva McDaniel a notebook binder with 3,285 signatures on May 1. McDaniel certified that 2,765 signatures were valid, which was enough to get the measure put on November's general-election ballot.

A man accused Monday of purse snatching also has been charged in two similar incidents, including one May 17 in which an 84-year-old woman was pushed to the ground and her pelvis was broken, Nicholasville police said.

Former University of Kentucky basketball player Michael Porter was arrested after a sting operation by Lexington police yielded evidence that he had oral sex with an underage girl, according to court documents.

Alltech on Monday unveiled its new Lyons Farm brand of poultry and beef, named for Pearse Lyons, the president and founder of Alltech.

Gardens are a growing trend in correctional facilities in Kentucky, reports the Lexington Herald Leader .

For the second time less than a week, a purse snatcher preyed upon an unsuspecting woman as she entered a Nicholasville chain store.

Republicans are getting awfully brazen in their talk of taking over the Kentucky State House in November's election.

A local country club now officially has a well known new golf developer who says he is intent on adding it to a growing list of central Kentucky courses he has acquired and turned around.

Inmates from the Harlan County Detention Center harvested beans last August. More and more counties in the state have instituted jail gardens in recent years.

Police are looking for a man who violently snatched a woman's purse in the parking lot of a Walmart.

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Jacob W. Mooney, 18, of 110 Hillcrest Drive in Nicholasville, was arrested Friday, May 11 on an arrest warrant which charged him with two counts of first-degree rape that caused serious physical injury.

After months of discussions and meetings, the Nicholasville City Commission passed the first reading of an ordinance that would set "reasonable hours between which fireworks may be used within the city" during Monday night's meeting.

This year there was a sizable lack donations made by the community to Stamp Out Hunger - a nationwide food drive where people can leave out nonperishable foods for their letter carriers to pick up and take to a community center for local distribution.