FileFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has asked a judge to strike down a Republican-backed law eroding his appointment authority over the state fair board. The measure transferred power to appoint a majority of the board’s members to the agriculture commissioner. The current commissioner is Republican Ryan Quarles. Beshear and a member of his cabinet are challenging the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky say a boat accident in the Ohio River has left one person dead and injured four others while two people remain missing. News outlets report seven people were on a pleasure craft when it collided with a barge Saturday night near a boat dock in Louisville. A search for a man and woman…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Kentucky man whose pickup truck was seized at the Mexican border and held by the federal government for more than two years. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a lower-court ruling against Gerardo Serrano. He was asking the court to force the government to…
(Credit: Pixabay)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police say a 14-year-old has been charged in the fatal shooting of another juvenile in central Kentucky. Police said in a statement that officers responded Sunday to a report of a person who had been shot at an apartment building in Lexington. The Fayette County Coroner’s Office pronounced 17-year-old Hayden Nash dead at the scene….
File PicLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A police officer in Kentucky was seen on video repeatedly punching a protester in the head while the man was face down on the ground during a protest. Several Louisville Metro police officers were seen in a Facebook video of 29-year-old Denorver “Dee” Garrett being arrested Sunday afternoon. In the video, an officer attempting to…
FileFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he’s holding out hope for bipartisan progress on “kitchen table issues” even though political rancor has increased. The Democratic governor is offering a rosy outlook despite the bruising legislative session he endured. The Republican-dominated legislature clipped Beshear’s executive powers and overrode his stack of vetoes. But bipartisan agreements to expand early…
NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of memoir by a Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylor’s apartment says it will release the book even though its distributor, Simon & Schuster, announced it would “not be involved.” Post Hill Press, based outside of Nashville, Tennessee, has scheduled a fall release…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Democratic governor’s challenge of Republican-backed laws aimed at limiting his authority to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The GOP-led legislature passed the measures over Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes. The governor immediately filed a lawsuit. The new laws curbing his executive powers were temporarily blocked by Franklin County…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky distillery startup is planning to build a 300-acre campus that will employ about 126 people. The governor’s office says Log Still Distillery is investing $24 million in a second phase of its project to revive a historic site in Nelson County. The company says it is building a family-friendly tourism destination in the heart…
CORBIN, Ky. (AP) — The southern Kentucky town of Corbin is planning a festival that will celebrate a famous face and former resident: Colonel Harland Sanders, who developed the secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Times-Tribune reports that the city’s first Colonel Fest is scheduled on April 24 and will feature dozens of vendors set up along Main Street,…
