(Credit: Pixabay)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Supreme Court has launched a commission aimed at improving the judicial system’s approach to cases involving mental health, substance use and intellectual disabilities. The new Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health will work to improve the practice, quality and timeliness of the judicial response to cases involving those needs. Chief Justice John D. Minton…
(Source: CNN: CDC via CNN Newsource)NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say it is possible that hundreds of people in New York state have gotten polio and don’t know it. The pronouncement came Friday after they said the virus that causes the potentially deadly disease has been detected in New York City’s wastewater. Authorities say the presence of the virus…
(Source: CNN via CNN Newsource) CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, who is 75, was flown…
(Source: CNN via CNN Newsource) LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokesperson for Anne Heche says the actor is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and isn’t expected to survive. The statement released on behalf of her family said she is being kept on life support to determine if she is a…
Kentucky governor on catastrophic flooding: “We’ve never seen something like this.” (Source: CNN via CNN Newsource) FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The number of people who died as a result of flash flooding in eastern Kentucky has risen to 39. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the death count rose when a death was counted in Breathitt County. He didn’t identify the…
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said Thursday that people no longer need to stay at least 6 feet away from others. The changes come…
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Ohio Highway State Patrol says an armed man who tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office was shot and killed by police after he fled the scene, leading to an hourlong standoff. The man, who has not been identified, was shot after he raised a gun toward police. The shooting took place shortly after 3 p.m….
(Source: Danny Koester/Local News X / TMX via CNN Newsource) EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities are working to determine the cause of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood that killed three people and left another person hospitalized. The explosion Wednesday afternoon in Evansville damaged 39 homes and Fire Chief Mike Connelly told reporters Thursday morning that crews had…
Semi-truck coverturns on Kentucky highway and spills thousands of Bud Light beer cans onto the road. (Source: WLKY)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A semitrailer loaded with beer turned over in Kentucky, spilling cases just off an interstate ramp. News outlets report the truck crashed around 8:50 a.m. Wednesday while traveling from the Interstate 71 ramp to I-265 in northeastern Louisville. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Falling gas prices gave Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though the surge in overall prices slowed only modestly from the four-decade high it reached in June. Consumer prices jumped 8.5% in July compared with a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, down from a 9.1% year-over-year jump in June. On…
