Ryan Hermens

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

Fayette County Public Schools buses may soon have tablets for bus drivers to help guide their routes, replacing a system that’s “cumbersome and obsolete,” according to recent board meeting agenda documents. The school board will be asked Monday to approve a contract to spend $312,544 with TransAct Communication for tablets and hardware that would replace paper packets that bus drivers use to navigate Lexington streets.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

A decade after the disappearance and presumed death of Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers, a jury will hear evidence next week against two men charged with killing her. The trials of Brooks Houck, 43, and Joseph Lawson, 34, begin Tuesday in Bowling Green. Houck, Rogers’ boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, faces charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence. Lawson faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to tamper with physical evidence.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

Hating President Donald Trump is your right as an American. But please, for the sake of reason, imagine our blessed country with Kamala Harris in the Oval Office. Please give it 10 minutes. Wayne Burns, Lexington. President Donald Trump’s speech to a military audience at Fort Bragg, North Carolina was truly chilling. The military is supposed to be apolitical, yet the audience booed Biden, Newsom, and the press. Where are the leaders of the military?

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

The second time was the charm for Chad Meredith, who was nominated to serve as a federal judge on United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky late Wednesday by President Donald Trump, according to a social media post from Trump. In 2022, the administration of former Democratic President Joe Biden planned to nominate Meredith, the state’s former solicitor general under former Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Republican Sen.

1 week ago | kentucky.com | Ryan Hermens

Rep. Andy Barr said Wednesday he would support giving President Trump “whatever authorities that he seeks” as the president weighs direct involvement in the intensifying war between Israel and Iran. Israel, a longtime ally of the United States, has for nearly a week bombarded targets in Iran, focusing many strikes on sites related to the country’s development of nuclear weapons.