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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's governor is steering nearly $40 million in federal pandemic relief funds for use in emergency rental assistance in the state's two largest cities.

Gov. Andy Beshear directed that $27 million be used for rental assistance in Louisville and $11.7 million for Lexington's program.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — City officials have announced that most Lexington buildings will open June 11 after being closed to the public since March 2020 because the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the city's main downtown campus and police station on Main Street will reopen.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Lexington officials are seeking to expand the position of a citizens' advocate who helps people file complaints against the police.

The move to expand the advocate's hours from 20 to 25 hours per week came during budget hearings for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council on Thursday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina deputies shot and killed an armed man who fired at them last weekend, a sheriff's office said.

Gov. Andy Beshear gave a pandemic pep talk for Kentucky's students Tuesday, saying their willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine empowers them to help "overcome a challenge that we adults can't do on our own.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Timothy M. Kelly, former publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader who oversaw Pulitzer Prize-winning work there and at other newspapers across the country, died Monday, the Kentucky newspaper reported...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police officer shot and wounded a man who first fired a gun at the officer, police said...

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Two people were killed after a car traveling in the wrong direction hit their car head-on, the N...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A 14-year-old has been charged in the fatal shooting of another juvenile in central Kentucky, police said...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington is reviving its Run/Walk Club after canceling it last year due to the coronavirus pandemic...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A woman was killed and a police officer injured in a crash early Monday in central Kentucky, officials said...

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A man and his daughter who were sentenced to prison in the 2015 death of an Irish businessman were released on bond Wednesday, weeks after the North Carolina Supreme court agreed that their convictions should be reversed...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Florida woman convicted of selling counterfeit medical supplies that made it into the operating room of a Kentucky hospital during brain surgery has been sentenced to six months in federal prison...

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man solicited a child for sex in exchange for money by sending a social media text message, a sheriff's office said...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man has been charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence in a crash that killed two teenage siblings...

LANCASTER, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for killing a young mother whose remains were found buried in a shallow grave six months after she disappeared.

David Sparks, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of murder, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse in the death last year of Savannah Spurlock, 23.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A man shouting anti-Semitic slurs from an SUV ran over a member of a Jewish organization as a crowd gathered this weekend to light a menorah, authorities said...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Lexington is now a gigabit city.

Construction of a fiber optic network has been completed, making Lexington one of the largest gigabit cities in the country, city officials announced Tuesday in a statement...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Marie Bouzkova expected some adjustments for her first tennis tournament in nearly six months...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new program will launch this month for young people who are transitioning out of foster care, Kentucky officials said...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A virtual city council meeting in Kentucky was interrupted Wednesday night by people making racial and homophobic slurs...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The mayor of a Kentucky city announced a moratorium on "no-knock" warrants, except in life or death situations.

Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton placed the immediate moratorium on Monday night, news outlets reported...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto says a controversial mural at the school that has been the object of protest for its depictions of black people and Native Americans is coming down...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — It’s no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Three more cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Kentucky, bringing the state's total to four, Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday.

Beshear said state lab tests confirmed the latest positive cases in Fayette, Harrison and Jefferson counties.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — School districts from across Kentucky plan to participate in the state's first STEM Leadership Forum, officials said...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky are searching for a white man who they say briefly grabbed an African American store employee around the neck in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Three journalists who reported for decades on the coal industry and other issues in Appalachia are the winners of this year's Tom and Pat Gish Award.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Krispy Kreme has stepped in to comfort Kentucky police officers mourning the loss of a doughnut truck that caught fire...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say several jail inmates have been diagnosed with hepatitis A in a Kentucky county where cases of the contagious liver disease have increased in recent months...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A school district in Kentucky has released a video that shows a teacher and a nurse dragging an autistic student with a service dog through the halls of a middle school...

The University of Kentucky has launched the public phase of a $2 billion-plus fundraising campaign, laying out a set of goals that include expanding student scholarships and boosting medical research in a state struggling with high rates of cancer and other chronic illnesses...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — An explosion damaged a UPS freight hub Wednesday morning in Kentucky's second-largest city, sending multiple people to the hospital in what fire officials described as an accidental blast...