 Lexington is home to the Kentucky Horse Park, Keeneland race course, the Red Mile race course, a Jif peanut butter plant which produces more peanut butter than any other factory in the world, Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky (UK). The area code (859) spells out UKY. UK's basketball program is immensely popular in the city, and the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team have won more games than any other team in college basketball history.
Lexington has been selected to be the site of the 2010 World Equestrian Games . (Information provided by Wikipedia .)
If you are looking at visiting, Lexington certainly offers the best to its visitors.
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Cold Case homicide playing cards program is announced |
Posted Date: 1/15/2010 1:45 PM
The Lexington Division of Police, in partnership with the Bluegrass Crime Stoppers and the Kentucky Department of Corrections, today announced that it has received a grant designed to enhance its efforts to solve cold cases. The grant is being used to produce the first edition of Kentucky Cold Case Homicide playing cards.
Cold Case cards52 cold cases have been selected to appear in a deck of playing cards that will be distributed through the local Community Corrections Center and in 18 prisons and multiple jails around the state. The distribution will keep these cases in front of inmates who might know something about the crimes. Police hope the cards will spark leads that will eventually help to solve cold cases involving violent homicides or resolve missing persons reports.
The idea for the cards traces back to the Pentagon, which used a deck of cards in 2003 during the search for Saddam Hussein’s inner circle. Two years later, Florida produced a deck that focused on cold cases and soon solved a murder cold case. Kentucky today becomes the 10th state to produce the cards.
The cards are also reminders that there are families still waiting for justice for their loved ones.
For more information please contact: Lt. Douglas Pape at 859.258.3621.
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Local partnership designed to stop crime against elderly |
Posted Date: 8/13/2009 11:30 AM
Mayor Jim Newberry, Police Capt. James Turley, and others have announced a new five-year CrimeStoppers program designed to help the elderly.
First Federal Bank and the Richmond Place Rehabilitation and Health Center announced Wednesday that they have partnered to bring the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Program to the residents of Richmond Place.
The program provides on-going crime prevention programs designed to deter incidents of crime in long-term care and senior housing facilities. The Program will provide the Center a proven system for preventing crime against its patients and staff including ongoing education for residents and their families and for staff members, lock boxes for the residents' personal property and medication, access to an anonymous tip-reporting hotline, and cash rewards for information that could help the facility solve or prevent a crime.
“We view this partnership as a way for First Federal Bank to give back to the community in a very important way.” stated William W. James, bank president. “Our commitment in this program will help strengthen the fight against crime perpetrated on the elderly.”
First Federal Bank has been serving the Central Kentucky area since 1935. It is Lexington’s oldest independent financial institution with a variety of financial products to meet the needs of the community.
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