Fayette County

DANVILLE — Boyle County's black-clad football team put its own spin on "Black Friday" as it held off defending state champion Lexington Catholic 23-16 in the third round of the Class 4A playoffs.

Kentucky residents and students with ties to Mumbai, India, say they are closely following news of this week's terrorist attacks and checking with loved ones there.

Next week, one of Kentucky's newest and most well-traveled young environmental activists will join world leaders and experts in Poznan, Poland, for the United Nations climate change conference.

Lexington's 2008 Christmas Parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Main Street and Midland Avenue.

A funky new community band that didn't exist a month ago will strut its stuff for the first time in the Lexington Christmas Parade, which begins downtown at East Main Street and Midland Avenue at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

It began about 10 years ago — no one remembers the year — when Joe Federspiel drove up to his Lakeside Drive home on Thanksgiving Day and saw his neighbor, Tom Kluemper, raking leaves.

With the economic shock waves continuing, one of the most visible effects this holiday season will be on temporary workers.

Bluegrass music fans around the Lexington area are starting to notice a new, but quite small, star lighting up the local scene.

A Lexington man charged with assaulting, raping and sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl pleaded not guilty to charges in Fayette District Court Wednesday.

Leamon Wesner's head dropped Wednesday as prosecutors and a judge told him his first-degree assault charge had been upgraded to first-degree murder after the death of a 2-year-old girl.

Thompson & Riley is leaving East Main Street, and owner Jamie Bates says the future of the 44-year-old auction company is uncertain because of the recession.

More parents are looking for help filling holiday stockings this year, according to two Fayette County charities.

Big band host Chris Nielsen Jr.dies

This was a good sign, the Rev. Ralph Beiting said, a sign that on this Thanksgiving, loving American people want to help each other:

Workers excavating around the new outdoor riding arena at the Kentucky Horse Park on Tuesday uncovered bones of two people.

State Education Commissioner Jon Draud Wednesday gave Kentucky's public school superintendents until noon Dec. 3 to report how a 4 percent budget cut would affect operations in their districts.

Here's a list of local and state services that will be affected by the Thanksgiving holiday:

SANDENIA, Guinea — After a year of sitting in front of a computer eight hours a day, browsing patents at a mind-numbing rate of a few thousand an hour, enough was enough. It was time for a change.

Kentucky's campus leaders are rushing to turn down their buildings' thermostats and urging students to switch off the lights in order to deflate bloating utility budgets that are adding to universities' budget woes.

Thanksgiving isn't just another holiday for Lexington native David Akers.