Madison County News

A 62-year-old woman who was charged with robbery after she fought with Belk department store employees Sept.

An alleged shoplifter was charged with second-degree robbery Tuesday for shoving a clerk as he attempted to flee the store, Richmond police said.

The state audit of the Madison County Clerk's office is now in the Kentucky Attorney General's hands after findings were released today that included the alteration of public records.

A Berea woman was killed Tuesday night in a car accident in Madison County. Alicia D. Goding, 45, was driving a Pontiac Firebird about 6:30 p.m. when she attempted a left turn off Harrison-King Lane onto old U.S. 25, Kentucky State Police said.

A Berea woman died Tuesday evening after her vehicle was hit by a truck on Old U.S. 25 in Madison County, state police said.

The county clerk in Madison County allowed delinquent taxpayers to renew vehicle registrations, which is against Kentucky law, according to a state audit released Wednesday.

A 20-year-old Berea College student pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of unlawful transaction with a minor and using an electronic communications system to procure sex with a minor, according to jail officials.

A jury should be seated Monday morning in the murder trial of a Sand Gap man charged with murder for a shooting in Berea two days before Christmas last year.

Names of both incumbents and new candidates are beginning to surface at the Madison County Clerk's office since the candidate filing window for the 2010 election opened on Nov.

A man suspected of robbing the downtown branch of Madison Bank on Monday, Nov. 2, appeared briefly Thursday in Madison Circuit Court for state charges to be dismissed against him after charges were filed in federal court.

Richmond police have charged a man suspected in the stabbing of a woman at a motel on Sunday.

Police in Madison County said a man injured in a shooting may be the one in trouble.

A Berea man was indicted Thursday by a Madison County grand jury on wanton endangerment charges after allegedly firing a shotgun at a car stopped in the road outside his home.

Campaigns for several political offices will begin next year, but Betty Miller, who operates Richmond's New Liberty Family Homeless Shelter, has started her own campaign and considers it an emergency.

Expansion and renovation at Madison Southern High School is nearing completion. If everything continues on schedule, all projects should be completed within the first two weeks of January, said Madison Southern principal David Gilliam.

As the father of a young daughter, I must say I am a bit disturbed and shocked by the outcome of Brandon Rousey's text messaging-for-sex case.

Police in Madison County are investigating after a bizarre robbery at a motel. It happened Friday morning at the Comfort Suites off exit 87 in Richmond.

Kentucky has reported its 14th death related to the H1N1 flu virus. A woman in her early 30s with underlying health conditions has died in Knox County, according to the health department there.

Richmond police arrested a man early Tuesday morning in connection with Monday's robbery of a Madison Bank branch.

Two new Swine Flu deaths were reported in Kentucky this week. Madison County Health Department officials told the Richmond Register Thursday that a 59-year-old man died from complications caused by the virus.