Over three years after 4-year-old Marco Shemwell’s death, former UK student Jacob Heil has been acquitted of reckless homicide in connection to the incident. During the interim, details concerning the...
Following a status hearing in Fayette Circuit Court, the trial by jury for three men accused of killing a UK student will be delayed until April of 2022.The suspects, Justin Smith, Roman Gonzalez and Efrain...
After seven weeks of jury selection, oral arguments, testimony and deliberation, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, in a Hennepin...
2021 marks the six-year anniversary of the death of Jonathan Krueger, a UK student and Kentucky Kernel photo editor who was shot while walking with a friend on East Maxwell in the early hours of April...
The University of Kentucky is participating in a COVID-19 trial. According to a UK press release from Nov. 5, Baptist Health Lexington and Norton Healthcare in Louisville will be testing sites for the...
The Kentucky Supreme Court has balked at a chance to decide whether criminal defendants between the ages of 18 and 21 can face the death penalty.The state’s highest court declined to interfere Thursday...
Never has a runner from Kentucky finished inside the top 25 of the Boston Marathon, but that changed at last Monday’s 122nd edition of the historic and prestigious race.Former UK distance runner Zack...
The trial for the alleged murderers of the former Kernel photo editor is delayed while a decision is made about the constitutionality of the death penalty for those under 21.Efrain Diaz, Justin Smith and...
Friday morning, a man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in beating to death Alex Johnson, a UK chef. Timothy Ballard pleaded guilty to kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the murder...
Wednesday afternoon, a Fayette County jury found Mark Taylor guilty in the murder of Alex Johnson. In January 2014, Johnson's body was found in a barrel at the bottom of the Kentucky River. Timothy Ballard...
On Tuesday, Mark Taylor told a courtroom he tried to perform CPR on UK chef Alex Johnson. Taylor is on trial because he is a suspect in the murder of Johnson. Another man, Timothy Ballard took a plea...
On Monday, the trial of Robert Markham "Mark" Taylor continued.Meredith Frame, a state medical examiner from Frankfort, testified that UK chef Alex Johnson suffered neck and skull fractures before he died...
