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1 week ago | kentucky.com | MONICA KAST

The 43rd annual Breeders’ Cup is headed to Lexington in 2026. Wednesday’s announcement means Keeneland Race Course will host thoroughbred racing’s world championships for the fourth time next year. The 2026 Breeders’ Cup will be held Oct. 30 and 31. Keeneland has hosted three times previously: 2015, 2020 and 2022. The Breeders’ Cup began in 1984 as a season-ending championship of sorts for thoroughbred racing.

2 weeks ago | kentucky.com | MONICA KAST

A teenager was charged with murder Wednesday after a boy was found dead in Kentucky earlier this week, according to the Lexington Police Department. Ali Haider Naqvi, a 16-year-old from Nicholasville, was found dead Saturday night in Harrison County, about 20 miles northeast of Lexington. Ali and another teen, Aoun Ismail Basboos, 15, were reported missing May 11. Police said they believed both boys were in immediate danger, and Aoun is still missing.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | MONICA KAST

Deadly storms ripped across the southern part of Kentucky overnight, with 14 deaths and at least one unconfirmed tornado reported, according to state officials. The number of deaths could grow as search and rescue operations continue on Saturday. The storm system began in Missouri on Friday afternoon and leveled homes, businesses, airport hangars and more structures as it moved into Kentucky overnight and into the early hours of Saturday.

3 weeks ago | kentucky.com | MONICA KAST

Nearly 100,000 people are without power in Kentucky Saturday morning after a night of deadly storms. Shortly after 9 a.m., more than 99,600 people in Kentucky were without power, according to poweroutage.us, a website tracking outages across the country. Most of the outages have been reported across the southern part of the state, with the largest number of outages in Laurel, Estill, Jackson, Todd, Trigg and Leslie counties.

3 weeks ago | kentucky.com | MONICA KAST

The Herald-Leader has a new reporter covering business and economic development in Lexington and Central Kentucky. Piper Hansen joins the Herald-Leader from Louisville Business First, where she covered residential real estate, economic development in Southern Indiana and professional services including finance. Hansen is a Louisville native and graduate of duPont Manual High School. She graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.