It’s over. After 60 days of deliberations, the legislature brought the 2008 session of the General Assembly to a close by approving a budget for the next two years. The budget adds another 3 percent cut to higher education on top of a 3 percent cut already in place. The budget doesn’t include tax increases [...]

By Juliann Vachon Police are following multiple leads and are investigating one suspect in particular who could have been involved in a hit-and-run incident early Sunday that killed a UK student, said Officer Scott Lynch of the Lexington police. A pickup truck struck Connie Blount, 18, of Park City, Utah, while she was crossing the [...]

Members of Lino Nakwa’s village were gathering for prayer when the rebels came and took him from his family. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army took Nakwa, then 12, and his brother, trained them to fight with sticks and forced them to work in the rebel group’s camp. The training Nakwa received as a boy is [...]

Hundreds gather in grief to reflect on UK student’s life Her smile was infectious, her spirit was contagious, and friends and family who shared their memories of Connie Blount at her memorial service yesterday said she was the best friend any of them had ever known. Blount, 18, was killed in a hit-and-run accident early [...]

By Juliann Vachon A UK student was killed in a hit-and-run accident early yesterday while crossing the intersection of South Broadway and West Maxwell streets, according to the Fayette County Coroner’s Office. Connie Blount, 18, of Park City, Utah, was walking west across South Broadway Street at about 2:15 a.m. when a pickup truck hit [...]

Trustees: Salary freeze, tuition hike could hurt quality of education By Juliann Vachon Stephanie NeCamp, a mechanical engineering junior, said she is stuck. The Ohio native is too far along in her major to leave UK without falling behind, so she must endure the out-of-state tuition increase for another year, she said. “I help pay [...]

By Alle Rorie The second Barack Obama campaign headquarters in Kentucky opened yesterday in Lexington, encouraging UK students and other residents to join the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. “It’s important to make sure people who are on the ground, particularly groups such as Students for Obama, have a place locally to plug into,” said Carolyn [...]