Author: Associated Press

Mobile FEMA centers open in Kentucky for flood victims

(Source: Office of Governor Andy Beshear) FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — New FEMA mobile disaster recovery centers have opened to assist Kentucky flood survivors. The new centers are at the Magoffin County Health Department in Salyersville and the Owsley Recreation Center in Booneville. The centers will be open on Monday and Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. They will reopen…

Kentucky county buying airport land for park, animal shelter

BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Boone County recently approved a $1.18 million deal to purchase about 300-acres owned by the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the airport acquired the land in the 1990s as part of a runway extension project that is no longer needed. Since then Boone County has developed the property into England–Idlewild Park. The…

Kentucky launches judicial commission on mental health

(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…

Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating

(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…

FEMA faces criticism for response as flood death count grows

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…

CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID

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…

Armed man tries to breach FBI office, killed after standoff

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….

Cause sought for Indiana house explosion that killed 3

(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…