Franklin County News

Employment in Franklin County improved less than 1 percent in April, which had a 6.2 percent unemployment rate compared to 7 percent in March, the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet announced Thursday.

Months before Kentucky's health benefit exchange opens for business, Gov. Steve Beshear unveiled Wednesday a website to help educate Kentuckians and small businesses shopping for health insurance.

A coroner says blunt force trauma to the head and face killed a woman found dead inside a Frankfort apartment.

Franklin County Coroner Will Harrod said a cause of death won't be determined until a preliminary investigation and autopsy is complete.

Police arrested a Frankfort man Wednesday in connection with a series of indecent exposure incidents at the University of Kentucky, the Herald-Leader reports.

A Christians-only medical program that had been banned in Kentucky is expected to resume operations next month, unless officials at the Department of Insurance decide to continue a decade-long legal fight.

Continuing on the path to innovative education methods, Danville High and Bate Middle schools are offering students the opportunity to take hands-on, engineering-based courses.

Kay filed Tuesday in Frankfort, a day after party leaders nominated him to run in a June 25 special election to replace former state Rep.

James L. Kay II, chairman of the Woodford County Democratic Party, will be the party's nominee in the June 25 special election to fill a vacancy in the 56th District of the state House of Representatives.

Franklin County High School students were robbing banks, being evicted and nursing babies recently - all within the confines of the school cafeteria.