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RICHMOND, Ky. -- Police say a serial car thief has been taking vehicles on test drives that don't end back with the sellers.

In 2010, Neil Burns weighed a whopping 680 pounds. Too tired to go about his daily life because of his size and with his eating habits spiraling out of control, the 44-year-old father from Richmond, Ky., said he felt as if he were in prison.

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Lexington will celebrate its third annual jazz festival at Talon Winery and Vineyards this Sunday, June 3, 2012.A 'The Lexington Jazz Festival' will begin after 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.A This event is sponsored by Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC , and hosted by Bluegrass Community & Technical College , Talon Winery and Vineyards and the Jazz Arts Foundation .A ... (more)

Citing management issues and low morale within the Campbell County Police Department, two independent consultants have recommended against a proposed merger with the Alexandria Police Department.

An Eastern Kentucky University student was crowned Miss Boyle County Fair Sunday night and will advance to the state-level competition in Louisville later this year.

Clint Disken, a man missing since early March, was last seen with Thomas Wayne Hager Jr., a man charged this week in a double murder in Danville, Kentucky State Police said Friday.

An Irvine man faces charges of rape and kidnapping, the Madison County Sheriff's Office said in a release Thursday.

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Daniel Keene, 26, is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of burglary in the deaths of Sonsaray Warford and Charles Walker, a Richmond couple that had been missing since June, 2010.

Seventy high school sophomores-to-be from around the Commonwealth, including one from Logan County High School participated in the annual Gear UP Summer Academy June 13-July 2 at Eastern Kentucky University.

Congressional and state legislative races will command most of the attention in Tuesday's primary election, but some local races are on regional ballots.

The women of Quinn Chapel AME Church, 181 W. Main St., will celebrate Women's Day on Sunday with two services.

Police in Richmond charged two people with endangering the welfare of a minor after finding a baby living in what officers described as hazardous conditions.

Flush from the passage of his $1.5-billion city budget earlier this week, Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones' focus was on the future during his address Thursday morning to the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce.

A Madison County man has been arrested after he was allegedly driving under the influence when he picked up two children from school.

Beshear is set to speak at a memorial ceremony Tuesday at 11 a.m. EDT at the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.

Editor's note: Though it would have been more fitting to have run this on Mother's Day, we didn't receive the column in time to do so.

Gen. David M. Rodriguez, U.S. Army Forces Command commanding general, looks appreciatively at the 10 ROTC cadets he will shortly be swearing in as Army second lieutenants, May 4, 2012, at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky.

"He was a police man in Richmond Kentucky. That didn't satisfy him, then he wanted to be a state trooper," says Lela Cunningham, his mother.