WALY Radio | radioNOVO News for Frankfort, KY 07-09-26

Good morning.Fayette County school officials state that the local public school district will officially end its fiscal year deeply in the red. Acting Finance Director Amy Smith confirmed that systemic accounting errors over the past two years led the district to overstate its tax collections by eight and a half million dollars. To balance the massive deficit, administrators have already eliminated one hundred twenty positions and will seek a ninety-five million dollar short-term emergency loan while selling off surplus district buildings.Meanwhile, a prominent Central Kentucky homicide case is set to receive national true-crime coverage this week. An upcoming episode of N-B-C's Dateline titled The Bluegrass Mystery will feature the long-running investigation into the twenty-nineteen disappearance and murder of Richmond mother Ella Jackson, whose husband Glenn Jackson was sentenced to fourteen years in prison this past spring.And the National Weather Service has issued a widespread flood watch for most of central Kentucky starting this afternoon as a severe storm system threatens to dump multiple inches of heavy rainfall onto saturated local ground.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.