Around The State

Ashley Elgin is fighting for justice after her husband, 34-year-old Robert Broyles Jr., was strangled to death at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in August 2025, just nine days before his scheduled release. Broyles, who Elgin describes as "the best husband" and "the best dad I've ever met in my life," was serving time for a non-violent weapons charge. The couple had been married for five years and were raising […]

A Casey County Schools bus hit a cow that had entered the roadway, the district announced Friday, Feb. 20. The incident occurred around 6 a.m. on KY 49, according to Casey County Schools, and no students were on the bus during the accident. The driver was not injured in the collision. Credit: WKYT

ONE Lexington, the community group founded in 2017, recently released the city’s gun violence numbers for 2025 and they are, once again, improved from previous years. Gun-related homicides were down 34% in 2025, the organization reported. Shootings dropped by 52%, and shootings involving the city’s youth and young adults plummeted by 54%. “The streets are safer,” ONE Lexington Community Outreach Coordinator, Larry Johnson said. ”We are being aggressive in targeting […]

Kentucky State Police is investigating a shooting incident that occurred early Saturday morning in Anderson County, according to a press release. The press release writes that around 1:30 a.m., Kentucky police received a call stating that shots had been fired at a residence on Lover's Leap Road in north Lawrenceburg. Through a preliminary investigation, police discovered that around 50 to 75 college students from Kentucky State University were holding a […]

A popular birthing center at Fort Logan Hospital will close Monday, leaving expectant mothers in southern Kentucky searching for alternatives. Danville-based Ephraim McDowell Health announced it is closing the unit at Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford. The decision affects numerous mothers, including the wife of Kentucky singer Tyler Childers, who had their first baby at the facility and planned to deliver their second there. Dr. Jay Miller, who has delivered […]

Six people who made up an alleged poaching ring face more than 100 criminal charges for illegally killing several hundred animals, including deer, turkey, a fox and a domestic pet. According to a news release from Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officials, game wardens stopped the group in July 2024 after seeing them use "high-powered lights to illuminate fields from a vehicle along public roadways," a practice the department said is […]

A Lexington man was sentenced to 65 years in prison for multiple firearm and drug trafficking charges. Keith Stallworth, 41, was arrested in August 2023, according to a press release by the Eastern District of Kentucky U.S. Attorney’s Office and was in possession of a pistol containing high velocity rifle rounds and an extended magazine that could hold an additional 29 rounds. Police found a large quantity of methamphetamine, fentanyl […]

With winter weather keeping many indoors, health officials across Kentucky are reporting a surge in respiratory illnesses and gastrointestinal infections that are keeping clinics busy and patients miserable for weeks. The Woodford County Health Department is seeing a shift in flu patterns, with about 40% of cases now being flu B, according to Cassie Prather, director of the health department. "We're seeing a little bit of everything right now. We're […]

 A Franklin County grand jury has indicted three daycare workers on 30 criminal counts involving the abuse and strangulation of multiple children in their care, according to court documents filed February 10. The indictment revealed that 48-year-old Constance Perry of Lawrenceburg faces the most serious charges, including seven counts of first-degree strangulation and 13 counts of first-degree criminal abuse of children 12 and under. In addition, 62-year-old Jenny Weeks of […]