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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — The Appalachian Regional Commission is awarding $9.4 million in grants to 30 projects in a dozen states. The grants will aid programs that address Appalachia’s substance abuse crisis by creating or expanding programs dedicated to recovery. The funding will help train and certify recovery specialists, and launch recovery-to-work programs and more. Ten projects in Kentucky, West…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A nonprofit group says land is being sold for the development of a private, upscale resort near Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Red River Economic Development says a contract has been signed for the purchase of 891 acres near Slade. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the buyers are the Red River Property Holding Group. It will hold the…
