LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has offered an incentive for accelerating the pace for COVID-19 vaccinations in Kentucky. He says he’ll lift capacity restrictions at most venues and businesses once 2.5 million Kentuckians have received at least their first shot. The Democratic governor’s announcement came Monday on the opening day of a massive vaccination site at Cardinal Stadium…
(Credit: Pixabay)JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana school district wants to bar the public from the civil trial of a man sentenced to 120 years in prison for molesting 20 children while working at a YMCA and an elementary school. Attorneys for the Greater Clark County School Corporation have filed a motion seeking to exclude the public from the…
Ross Creek WMAFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new wildlife management area has opened in eastern Kentucky. The Department for Fish and Wildlife Resources says the Ross Creek Wildlife Management Area spans nearly 1,000 acres across a bend in the Kentucky River near Lock and Dam 13 in Estill and Lee counties. Officials say the former cattle farm was recently restored…
File PicLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a woman has been killed and a police officer injured in a crash in central Kentucky. Lexington police said in a statement that the collision was reported around 1:30 a.m. Monday as officers responded to numerous calls of a vehicle traveling the wrong way on New Circle Road. The statement says it doesn’t…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed a partial ban on no-knock warrants a year after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The law Beshear signed Friday is not the total ban many demonstrators called for — a proposal introduced as “Breonna’s Law.” But it only permits no-knock warrants if there is “clear and convincing evidence” of…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge has temporarily blocked applying some of the state’s pandemic-related restrictions to several restaurants and breweries challenging them. Scott County Circuit Judge Brian Privett issued his order Friday. His order applies only to the businesses that challenged the coronavirus-related orders by Gov. Andy Beshear. The governor’s office is appealing the order. The ruling runs…
FileLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has signed legislation creating a financing plan to stimulate economic growth in western Louisville. He calls it a good start to overcome “decades of neglect.” The bipartisan measure is aimed at rejuvenating economically distressed neighborhoods in Kentucky’s largest city. Beshear’s signature came Friday as he decided the fate of several bills passed at…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s largest newspaper says its 74-year-old building in downtown Louisville is for sale. A real estate broker says the Courier Journal building was put on the market Friday with an asking price of $17 million. The building at 525 W. Broadway was constructed in 1947. Executive Editor Mary Irby-Jones says that while the newspaper’s location will…
HARTFORD, Ky. (AP) — Police say a Kentucky man was shot when sheriff’s deputies tried to serve arrest warrants and found him armed with a hammer and knife. Kentucky State Police say Ohio County sheriff’s deputies went Thursday to serve 29-year-old Patrick Logan Bunch of Hartford and ordered him to drop the weapons, but he didn’t comply and continued toward…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear’s office says the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs will add a second summer session this year to accommodate increasing demand. The program allows Kentucky high school students to focus on product innovation during a three-week residential program. Teams of students develop a business model, design a prototype and pitch their startups to a panel…
