A Winchester man accused of biting part of another man's ear off during a fight saw his case go to the grand jury this week.

Ann-Blair Thornton, a 21-year-old from Bowling Green, was nearly speechless Saturday night after being crowned Miss Kentucky 2011.

Organizers of the 2011 Spotlight Festival announced Monday that the event has been canceled.

The Rev. Canon Carol L. Wade, former canon precentor at the National Cathedral in Washington, will be the new dean and rector at Lexington's historic Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral. She is the first woman to hold either position at the downtown church.Wade will assume her new duties in September...

The Fayette County School Board has named Daviess County Superintendent Tom Shelton as superintendent to replace out-going superintendent Stu Silberman.

The congregations of 18 churches in the state are considering whether to take a stand to have ministers refuse to sign marriage licenses as a protest of Kentucky's refusal to allow same-sex marriage.Two Louisville churches — First Unitarian Church and Douglass Boulevard Christian Church &mdash...;

FRANKFORT — Lexington lawyer Andy Barr, who lost last year's race to represent Central Kentucky's 6th District by just 648 votes, announced Thursday he will seek the same seat in 2012.Barr, a Republican, said in a statement his "top priority will be to stop Washington's reckless spending spree...

For the first time, a Lexington teen who shot and killed his best friend publicly apologized to the victim's family.Jamar Mays, 18, told Ali Shalash's family — his mother, Gwendolyn Perkins, in particular — he was sorry during a sentencing hearing Thursday."I want to apologize to Miss...

SHAKERTOWN — As I sat in Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill's Meadow View Barn late last month listening to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center soothe the audience with Mozart and Schumann and rouse them with Bartók, it occurred to me just how lucky Central Kentuckians are to have...