The Lex Report https://thelexreport.com/ Lexington news, Kentucky football and basketball, Keeneland and long reads on one page of links. en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMT Fayette schools post record 93.9% graduation rate; no school flagged for helphttps://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/fayette-county-schools-post-strong-accountability-gains-in-latest-state-reporthttps://thelexreport.com/#4ed796c887f9Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTLeadLEX 18. The lead story on The Lex Report. UK HealthCare breaks ground on $275M Hamburg complexhttps://www.wkyt.com/2026/10/15/uk-healthcare-breaks-ground-275m-hamburg-east-complex-bring-specialty-care-closer-lexington-eastern-kentucky/https://thelexreport.com/#a47be489394dThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTLatestWKYT. Linked from The Lex Report. Cold front Friday; first frost chances this weekendhttps://www.wkyt.com/2026/10/15/alexa-mintons-forecast-rain-chances-persist-through-rest-work-week/https://thelexreport.com/#cae46052fa82Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTLatestWKYT. Linked from The Lex Report. Kentucky measles cases reach 157, 12 times last year'shttps://www.wuky.org/wuky-news/2026-10-14/measles-cases-still-on-the-rise-in-the-commonwealthhttps://thelexreport.com/#01b99cd6641eThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessWUKY. Linked from The Lex Report. Statewide: reading scores hit recent highs, but fewer Kentucky schools earn top ratingshttps://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-reading-scores-rise-as-state-releases-2025-26-school-accountability-datahttps://thelexreport.com/#66b0cc16e309Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessLEX 18. Linked from The Lex Report. FCPS finance office has six vacancies and a 'significant' FY2028 revenue gaphttps://fox56news.com/news/local/lexington/fayette-county-public-schools-outlines-progress-challenges-in-financial-corrective-action-plan/https://thelexreport.com/#1db14e1c7abeThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessFOX 56. Linked from The Lex Report. Kentucky American Water seeks a nearly 16% hike; Gorton calls it an 'outrage'https://www.wuky.org/wuky-news/2026-10-14/kentucky-american-water-makes-the-case-for-rate-increase-before-the-public-service-commissionhttps://thelexreport.com/#6b7df139f948Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessWUKY. Linked from The Lex Report. Lexington paramedicine program grows; ER visits down 58% for its patientshttps://www.wuky.org/wuky-news/2026-10-15/lexington-expands-its-paramedicine-program-citing-progress-in-reducing-er-visitshttps://thelexreport.com/#e217bc727434Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessWUKY. Linked from The Lex Report. A foul odor lingers off Tates Creek Road; neighbors want answershttps://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/foul-odor-raises-concerns-among-residents-in-southern-lexingtonhttps://thelexreport.com/#2d07659c26a1Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessLEX 18. Linked from The Lex Report. Meta is behind the Mason County data center, with a 40-year local tax breakhttps://kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/14/meta-revealed-as-company-behind-controversial-mason-county-hyperscale-data-center/https://thelexreport.com/#5202fce0ce5aThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessKentucky Lantern. Linked from The Lex Report. Fact check: What 6 candidates in Lexington vice mayor race say about data centershttps://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article317496389.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#6469b21a5bdbThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessLexington Herald-Leader. Linked from The Lex Report. Barr and Booker will debate on TV next week, as will Alvarado and Dembohttps://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/election/article317633616.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#7b42bc6b98bcThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessLexington Herald-Leader. Linked from The Lex Report. About 80,000 Kentuckians lose SNAP food aid, Beshear says, including 24,655 childrenhttps://kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/14/about-80000-kentuckians-have-lost-access-to-food-aid-under-federal-rule-changes/https://thelexreport.com/#169200dea860Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessKentucky Lantern. Linked from The Lex Report. Absentee ballot deadline coming up next Tuesdayhttps://www.wuky.org/wuky-news/2026-10-14/absentee-ballot-deadline-coming-up-next-tuesdayhttps://thelexreport.com/#18bdfaf8fa52Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTCivic life and businessWUKY. Linked from The Lex Report. Breeders' Cup returns to Keeneland: the week of events planned around Lexingtonhttps://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/horse-capital-lexington-prepares-for-breeders-cup-festival/https://thelexreport.com/#cb8a6ed90733Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesThoroughbred Daily News. Linked from The Lex Report. A fire camp for young women keeps Lt. Brenda Cowan's legacy alivehttps://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/lexington-fire-camp-honors-legacy-of-lt-brenda-cowan-while-inspiring-young-women-to-join-fire-servicehttps://thelexreport.com/#34d8ca86fb9aThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesLEX 18. Linked from The Lex Report. Percival Everett, who started teaching at UK, on 'James' at the Kentucky Theatrehttps://kykernel.com/129344/news/clements-lecture-symposium-sparks-conversations-about-literature/https://thelexreport.com/#be6a6883b5c6Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesKentucky Kernel. Linked from The Lex Report. A Lexington hotel is the only one in Kentucky with a Michelin keyhttps://www.kentucky.com/news/local/article317604922.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#494d61df02d0Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesLexington Herald-Leader. Linked from The Lex Report. Former bar, restaurant spot for sale. It was among first to serve Mexican food in Lexingtonhttps://www.kentucky.com/lexgoeat/restaurants/article317604148.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#f80c4b009a92Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesLexington Herald-Leader. Linked from The Lex Report. A parakeet flew off near Richmond Road, was left in a box, and made it homehttps://fox56news.com/news/local/lexington/lexington-bird-reunion-underscores-stray-pet-protocol/https://thelexreport.com/#b54497bab94eThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesFOX 56. Linked from The Lex Report. Not This Time's stud fee set at $300,000, the highest in North Americahttps://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/taylor-made-stallions-sets-not-this-times-stud-fee-at-300k/https://thelexreport.com/#217b7826aa89Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTPeople and placesThoroughbred Daily News. Linked from The Lex Report. No. 15 Kentucky at Oklahoma Saturday: first meeting since 1982, how to watchhttps://kykernel.com/129373/sports/need-to-know-kentucky-football-faces-oklahoma-after-historic-lsu-win/https://thelexreport.com/#52babcfd7088Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsKentucky Kernel. Linked from The Lex Report. Running back CJ Baxter could miss Saturday's gamehttps://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/kentukcy-oklahoma-sec-availability-report-wednesday/https://thelexreport.com/#02a8f78595beThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsKentucky Sports Radio. Linked from The Lex Report. Cats open exhibition play Friday at Rupp against Travis Ford's Little Rockhttps://ukathletics.com/news/2026/10/15/big-blue-preview-kentucky-vs-little-rock/https://thelexreport.com/#87a41c7cfa88Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsUK Athletics. Linked from The Lex Report. Pope: 'probably the best shooting team I've ever had'https://www.aseaofblue.com/kentucky-wildcats-basketball/183918/mark-pope-best-shooting-team-hes-ever-had-byu-ukhttps://thelexreport.com/#b57a3eecf3afThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsA Sea of Blue. Linked from The Lex Report. Ex-Cat Otega Oweh out for his rookie season with a ruptured Achilleshttps://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/otega-oweh-injury-update-thunder-kentucky/https://thelexreport.com/#70b26af4d930Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsKentucky Sports Radio. Linked from The Lex Report. Kentucky women picked fifth in the SEC; Clara Strack on the All-SEC first teamhttps://kykernel.com/129362/sports/womens-basketball/kentucky-womens-basketball-ranked-no-5-on-sec-preseason-poll/https://thelexreport.com/#fc60319bdc76Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsKentucky Kernel. Linked from The Lex Report. Breeders' Cup contenders work in the Keeneland fog, timed by an Apple Watchhttps://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/casse-breeders-cup-workers-highlighted-by-nitrogen-measure/https://thelexreport.com/#21f385b1b11eThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTSportsThoroughbred Daily News. Linked from The Lex Report. Cameroon's president is 93; his country's median age is 18https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/how-old-are-leadershttps://thelexreport.com/#fe457c287bc7Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingshannahritchie.substack.com. Linked from The Lex Report. How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internethttps://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/https://thelexreport.com/#b8ce6c2bc091Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsnot-ship.com. Linked from The Lex Report. Sick for years, an engineer hid a camera at her desk and caught a co-worker poisoning her waterhttps://abc7news.com/post/bay-area-woman-poisoned-worker-david-xu-speaks-1st-time-felony-conviction-expunged-judge/19933507/https://thelexreport.com/#63fd362111abThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsabc7news.com. Linked from The Lex Report. Scientists played a lost 1960s song to sparrows, and one began to sing ithttps://e360.yale.edu/digest/teaching-birds-lost-songshttps://thelexreport.com/#4261203596c3Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingse360.yale.edu. Linked from The Lex Report. Since 1995, Americans entertaining at home fell from 88% to 67%, a survey findshttps://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-the-past-30-yearshttps://thelexreport.com/#072a819cf2a8Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsdataforprogress.org. Linked from The Lex Report. I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear onehttps://snoutcover.com/one-yearhttps://thelexreport.com/#956a9835bb1cThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingssnoutcover.com. Linked from The Lex Report. He counted the cuts in 8,770 films: today's typical movie has about 1,500 shotshttps://stephenfollows.com/p/how-many-shots-are-in-the-averagehttps://thelexreport.com/#88bc6ba3effeThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsstephenfollows.com. Linked from The Lex Report. The Haunted Toys R Ushttps://www.retroist.com/p/the-haunted-toys-r-ushttps://thelexreport.com/#9edf1929db2eThu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsretroist.com. Linked from The Lex Report. A collector buys an old choir LP on impulse and sets out to find who sang on ithttps://ei3lh.eu/2026/10/11/the-toftwood-male-voice-choir-a-mystery-pressed-in-vinyl/https://thelexreport.com/#0b58befa7ec8Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsei3lh.eu. Linked from The Lex Report. The 'flying tiger': how the largest eagle ever hunted birds up to four metres tall (2021)https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/worlds-largest-eagle-hunted-unlike-any-other-bird-of-prey.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#1557d286c904Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsnhm.ac.uk. Linked from The Lex Report. Sweden was going cashless. Now its central bank wants people to keep cash at homehttps://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-sweden-abandoning-cashless-society-070000442.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#1f12b9abe327Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsuk.news.yahoo.com. Linked from The Lex Report. A restored 1969 Futuro house, a yellow fiberglass 'spaceship' in the California mountains, is for salehttps://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/https://thelexreport.com/#cad53acaa281Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingswowhaus.co.uk. Linked from The Lex Report. Darwin guessed in 1875 that a sticky alpine flower eats insects. He was righthttps://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.htmlhttps://thelexreport.com/#12950d9f24e4Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:10:48 GMTOther Musingsphys.org. Linked from The Lex Report.