FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky has surpassed another COVID-19 vaccination milestone. But he said Monday the pace needs to pick up among younger adults to defeat the coronavirus. Beshear says more than half of Kentuckians who are 18 and older have received at least a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-fourths of Kentuckians 70 and…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has announced a settlement with the state’s two largest electric utilities to reduce proposed rate increases. Cameron’s office said the settlement would save ratepayers at LG&E and Kentucky Utilities more than $113 million. The agreement must get the approval of the Kentucky Public Service Commission. The utility companies proposed in a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Officials says the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs has selected 120 high school students from 50 counties to participate in its highly competitive 2021 summer program. The Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet said there will be two three-week sessions this summer that offer participants the chance to focus on product innovation and business model design. Students…
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…
