The Associated Press released their picks for the top ten Kentucky news stories for 2007 a couple days ago.

1. Democrat Steve Beshear defeated Gov. Ernie Fletcher.

2. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Kentucky inmates’ challenge to lethal injection.

3. Investigators determined that pilot error was the main cause of the 2006 Comair crash in Lexington.

If it were up to us, we’d pick something a little more odd like this story where a crazed reader challenges the Courier-Journal’s Joe Gerth to a duel. Ha.

And in honor of the War on Christmas? Happy Holidays and such.