Kentucky

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Agreeing to serve as a confidential informant for the Kentucky State Police after being charged with a crime in high school, 17-year-old Lebron Gaither of Lebanon, Ky., relied on detectives to protect him.

Kenielle Finch made a "terrible mistake" by fleeing from police and hitting and killing two little girls, but the 27-year-old's actions do not constitute murder, his defense attorney argued in court Thursday.

Kentucky plans to keep using a three-drug lethal injection on death-row inmates and won't use Ohio's novel one-drug overdose method, as officials work through legal hurdles so executions can resume in the state.

Kentucky plans to keep using a three-drug lethal injection on death-row inmates and won't use Ohio's novel one-drug overdose method, as officials work through legal hurdles so executions can resume in the state.

The family of one of the four teenagers killed last year while getting a ride home from a youth group event with another teen who crashed as police pursued him for driving a stolen car has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the officers involved, claiming they should not have given chase.

In his first sworn testimony about the Aug. 20, 2008, football practice in which 15-year-old Pleasure Ridge Park High School player Max Gilpin collapsed, former Coach Jason Stinson said he did nothing wrong and would not have done anything differently that day.

More than three years after her husband was killed in the Comair crash in Lexington, Jamie Hebert says she doesn't believe she will ever find happiness again.

A man upset that an all-white jury was chosen for Lloyd Hammond's murder trial caused the case to be postponed after he loudly complained in front of jurors.

The Jefferson County Clerk's Office and all of its motor-vehicle customer-service locations will be closed Dec. 24 and 25 in observance of Christmas, Clerk Bobbie Holsclaw has announced.

Members of the Coalition for Responsible Lending said at a news conference Monday in Louisville that they want lawmakers in the 2010 legislative session to cap at 36 percent the annual interest on cash advance loans ? the same rate Congress imposed in 2007 on payday loans for military personnel..

U.S. District Judge Karl S. Forester on Monday denied a defense request to transfer the highway bid-tampering trial to Covington. Defendants in the case ? highway contractor Leonard Lawson, former Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert, and Lawson employee Brian Billings ? had asked that the trial be moved to Covington because of what they said has been extensive and prejudicial publicity about the case in Lexington.

Typically, when a Jefferson district judge takes the oath of office, it's done during a formal ceremony downtown at the Judicial Center. But when Mason Trenaman Sr. was sworn in as the newest district judge, he was applauded by a crowd of Boy Scouts, Brownies and other students at Lowe Elementary School.

On Dec. 10, 2009, the Kentucky Supreme court will consider a case involving a woman who gave birth and got arrested. In this case the Commonwealth claims that because a cocaine-using pregnant woman went to term, she should be punished for the crime of "wanton endangerment" for threatening the health of her "unborn" child.

Agreeing to serve as a confidential informant for the Kentucky State Police after being charged with a crime in high school, 17-year-old Lebron Gaither of Lebanon, Ky., relied on detectives to protect him.

A Senate committee completed its pre-session work Tuesday by passing proposals to put property tax limits into the state constitution and to delay unemployment insurance premium increases.

Fetal endangerment arguments heard

State revenue up for 1st time in 11 months

Dry Ridge couple indicted in scamming of car dealership

Covington man indicted in threats to roads and buidings

No jail time for Winchester woman in terrorism scam

Kentucky's jail population dropped in 2008