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Criminal Trespass

Joseph Shearer, 21, of 626 Hollow Creek Road in Lexington was arrested Jan. 31 on the 500th block of Washington Street and charged with second-degree criminal trespass, third-degree unlawful trespass with a minor and second-degree fleeing and evading on police on foot.

The Shelby County Fiscal Court voted to approve the hiring of three part-time 911 telecommunicators at its regular meeting on Tuesday.

Amanda LaMaster, Jennifer Hanlon and Catlin Hartlow were appointed to the position of 911 telecommunicator, which is a part-time position which pays $10 per hour.

You may not realize it when you looked at the cash-register receipt, but you’ve been paying less lately for your groceries.

Kentucky Farm Bureau just released its annual survey of food prices, and its figures show those prices declined 5.6 percent statewide in 2009.

Kentucky took a step toward trying to attain nearly $200 million in federal funds for school reform this week when both the Senate and House passed HB 176.

That bill, sponsored by Rep. Carl Rollins (D-Midway), would give school districts the right to close low-performing schools and to reopen them under the management of an educational management organization.