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By Steve FlairtyNKyTribune columnistAnthony “Tony” Wilhoit was born in Versailles 88 years ago and has mostly lived within three blocks of his current home, a large, majestic brick house bui

The community is remembering Julian Carroll as a man dedicated to investing in the Commonwealth and as someone who didnt forget where he came from. The former Kentucky Governor died

It was a sad Thanksgiving week in Pulaski County in 1963. Not only was the community reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy less than a week earlier

By Jack BrammerNKyTribune reporterWhen I interviewed Paul E. Patton in 1987 for the Lexington Herald-Leader in his bid to become Kentucky’s lieutenant governor, he showed me his fingernails.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky saw growing demands for change in the late 1960s — civil rights protests, environmental protests, the anti-war movement, poor people organizing against their own exploitation —

In 1968, the Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee investigated civil rights activists and anti-poverty workers.

For decades, older folks have looked at the younger generations and wondered, “What’s wrong with kids these days?” The thing is, those older folks were once the younger generation themselves,

Welcome to August and a new decade of memories! This month, we will be visiting the pages of August 1963’s local newspapers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway — a 75-mile long state highway that stretches throughout the eastern part of the state — is among the most-feared roads

LEXINGTON, Ky. — (TNS) Kentucky’s Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway — a 75-mile long state highway that stretches throughout the eastern part of the state — is among the most-feared