Leigh Searcy

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Since former Lexington-Fayette County Health Department commissioner Dr. Kraig Humbaugh retired at the end of 2021, the department has struggled to fill his place.

CRAB ORCHARD, Ky. (LEX 18) — Some first graders at Crab Orchard Elementary were in for a big surprise on Tuesday.

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — The FBI’s Louisville office announced on social media Wednesday that it is conducting a search in Nelson County tied to the Crystal Rogers investigation.

VERSAILLES, Ky. (LEX 18) — Suicide prevention is personal for University of Kentucky senior Taylor Dotson of Versailles.

After LEX 18 got questions from viewers about furniture purchased for Fayette County Public Schools’ administration building, we took a look at some of the expenditures over the last year.

A Georgetown man was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping after an allegation that he “attempted to lure” a 10-year-old girl into a van, according to court records.

(LEX 18) — The Robertson County sheriff will serve no jail time after entering Alford pleas in two separate DUI cases Wednesday.

At a court hearing Thursday, special Judge Eddy Coleman heard arguments from a prosecutor and defense attorney on a bond reduction requested by the man accused in the stabbing death of a woman in Floyd County.

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — At a hearing Tuesday, a judge denied a protection order requested by the sister of the woman accused of murdering her mother in Robertson County.

The records state that Torilena Fields was caring for Truitt Fields’ three sons, her nephews, in Riverside County, Calif., after they were removed from his custody.