FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has announced that nearly $12 million will be made available to dozens of Kentucky communities for street and road repairs. Beshear said on Thursday that $11.8 million in discretionary transportation funding would go to support 177 projects in 33 counties and 13 cities. Projects include resurfacing deteriorating roads, storm drain work and a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Parole Board wants a lawsuit over a controversial policy change to be dismissed because the board has reversed the change, which would have given another shot at parole to dozens of inmates ordered to spend the rest of their lives in prison. The Parole Board said in a motion that the lawsuit is moot…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky’s contract renewal with Sunrise Children’s Services remains in limbo, but the state continues to place youngsters in its care. It’s a new development in a months-long dispute revolving around a clause in a new contract with the state that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and that the children’s agency refused…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky police detective who sought the no-knock search warrant that led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor has had his firing upheld. News outlets report the Louisville Metro Police Merit Board voted 4-0 on Wednesday to uphold the termination of Joshua Jaynes after hours of deliberation. The decision came after three days of hearings…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A police union has filed suit to stop a ban on no-knock warrants in Kentucky’s second-largest city. News outlets report the Fraternal Order of Police Bluegrass Lodge No. 4 filed suit Wednesday against the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and sought a temporary restraining order against the no-knock warrant ban enacted last week. The ban followed months…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say the Kentucky State Fair will offer special deals on admission as it reopens to the public. Fair officials said in a statement that early bird tickets are available beginning on July 2 for $8 per person, which includes parking. The price is good through Aug. 5. Admission at the gate is $10 per person…
PARIS, Ky. (AP) — The military says a sailor from Kentucky who was killed at Pearl Harbor has been identified, and he will be buried in his hometown next month. Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Alphard S. Owsley of Paris, Kentucky, was killed Dec. 7, 1941, when his ship, the USS Oklahoma, was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The 23-year-old was…
The venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” appears poised to join the crowded Republican race for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat being left by Rob Portman. JD Vance plans a “special announcement” and rally at the steel fabricator Middletown Tube Works in his Ohio hometown Thursday. His book was widely seen in 2016 as helping explain Republican Donald Trump’s…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Charles Booker has launched another campaign for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky. The Black former state lawmaker is reprising his “hood to the holler” theme in hopes of building an urban-rural coalition powerful enough to unseat Republican incumbent Rand Paul next year. Booker rose to prominence by touting racial and economic justice themes. Booker narrowly…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Iowa has admitted wrongdoing and publicly apologized for comments ridiculing former President Donald Trump for issuing pardons to well-connected Republican officials. Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt made the remarks during a phone interview with The Associated Press in December, saying: “It’s not surprising a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals.”…
