Officals from WKYT and WLAP are scrambling, this morning, to respond to a scandal some are referring to as “Tailgate”. Newly released body cam footage shows Officer Don Evans doing traffic reports not high above the city in his helicopter, but instead, from the driver’s seat of the car.

“We began to have our suspicions and that’s why we started digging around for the body cam footage,” says Bobby Nealy, the man who first posted the footage to facebook. “The first sign, I guess, was that I could hear his Waze app in the background saying ‘continue straight for one mile’ and ‘expected time in traffic seven minutes.’ You don’t usually run into seven minutes worth of traffic in a helicopter.”

Nealy became even more convinced that Officer Don was not in a helicopter when one morning, he became upset about a very particular back up. During traffic on the ones Officer Don’s report was as follows “You’ll want to avoid heading outbound on Harrodsburg Road as there seems to be some delays out there. And HOLY MOTHER OF GOD (wild honking sounds) GET OFF OF NICHOLASVILLE ROAD MURRAY, USE A FREAKING TURN SIGNAL FOR ONCE IN YOUR PATHETIC LIFE.”

The suspicion was then confirmed when Nealy was able to leak the body cam footage. It was clear from the video that Officer Don was giving a traffic report from the driver’s seat of a 2015 Toyota Camry. The tape showed Officer Don smacking his stomach very quickly with one hand to replicate the sound of a rudder and calling out “I’m high above the city here, looking at everything very clearly now. Looks like a backup on New Circle and I would imagine there is probably some traffic on Nicholasville.”

Officer Don broke his silence Tuesday issuing a statement to the media, “to be honest I only started driving around because they wouldn’t let me land my helicopter at middlefork anymore.”

City officials in Paris, KY announced this week that strips of tasty, all-natural Mingua beef jerky can finally be used as currency at businesses within city limits. The move is one that residents of Paris have hoped would happen for months.

“I invested pretty heavily in Mingua beef jerky back during the recession, because I wanted something with a little more stability and flavor than the U.S. Dollar,” said Paris resident Pierre Dubois. “I’m glad city officials have finally come around on accepting it as legal tender, because it’s probably about as tender as it gets. And it makes my wallet smell great.”

While the transition to using the perfectly seasoned, hand-cut snack as currency is only now becoming official, many businesses around town have been accepting the jerky as payment for weeks.

“We accept any legitimate form of payment,” a Centerville Market clerk told us. “Whether that be cash, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or Mingua. You know, pretty much anything except American Express.”

Other stores told us they’ve seen an influx of counterfeit jerky.

“Yeah we get the scammers from time to time,” said Save-A-Lot cashier Claudette Fournier. “They’re easy to spot though. When you hold the jerky up to the light you can clearly tell it’s just some smashed up Slim Jims. Also, it doesn’t have the beautiful color and smoky aroma that the fine folks at Mingua have become so famous for.”

Many financial experts worry that introducing so much jerky into the market at once could lead to inflation, but culinary experts told us that’s just the sodium content.

“It’s a bull market,” financial planner and jerky enthusiast Antoine Dauterive told us. “You know, because of the logo.”

A radio advertisement for Morgan & Morgan that began during the second half Kentucky’s basketball game against Wichita State on Sunday is finally expected to come to an end at some point today, sources confirmed.

“I just want to know the score of the game,” said local listener Ernest Miller. “Did UK win? Tom Leach was calling the game but then it went to commercial and some lawyer guy has been talking ever since. I’ve been awake for three days.”

Morgan & Morgan, Lexington’s favorite Florida-based personal injury law firm, is known for its lengthy radio commercials in which founder John Morgan goes on several non-law related tangents and waxes poetic about the good old days before finally ending the advertisement with the catchphrase “For The People.” That catch phrase has yet to come in this latest commercial, but listeners are confident it will happen at some point this afternoon.

“It’s got to end at some point, right?” asked Wilma Spears. “He’s already mentioned his childhood memories of almost every place in Lexington I can think of, surely there can’t be many more. I thought it was about to end early Monday morning, but it was just WLAP pausing 10 seconds for station identification.”

A phrase you hear quite often among Lexington residents is “This town doesn’t have enough Liquor Barns.” Well thanks to a friendly group of traditionalist Christian builders, that’s about to change, as Lexington recently enlisted the help of Amish contractors to take part in the time-honored ritual of a new Liquor Barn raising.

Located at The Summit At Fritz Farm, construction on the Liquor Barn began promptly at 6:30 AM on Monday, and wrapped up around 6:37 AM.

“Liquor Barn, I hardly knew her barn,” a wise cracking and somewhat disdained member of the Amish community remarked to the others after construction was completed.

While it features all of the things that loyal patrons have come to expect from Liquor Barn (a great liquor selection, fine cheeses, several rows of party hats, and way more cash registers than they could ever possibly need), the new location will also include certain things that make it uniquely Amish. In lieu of the deli that you find at most Liquor Barns, there will instead be a butter churning station. There will also be a place outside to tie up your horse, or hitch your kids if they have one of those leashes.

The grand opening will take place this weekend. Former vice mayor Jim Gray will be on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony, which will be followed by a reading of the script from the movie Kingpin and a round of Bacardi Rumspringa and Cokes.