FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have finished work on a bipartisan election measure to make early voting a fixture. It loosens voting access in sharp contrast to partisan battles being waged elsewhere. The bill would give Kentucky voters three days of no-excuse, early in-person voting — including a Saturday — before Election Day. But it backs off from temporary,…
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man is being held on a $1 million bond in the shooting death of a Murray State University student. The Murray Ledger & Times reports Julius Sotomayor is charged with murder, theft by unlawful taking and tampering with physical evidence. He was arrested on Saturday after the body of Sarah Townsend was discovered in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers return Monday to deal with a packed agenda as they head into the final two days of this year’s session. Their work is headlined by a stack of gubernatorial vetoes. The Republican-led legislature is expected to take up override votes on Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes of bills ranging from scholarship tax credits to how…
HODGENVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park plans to reopen its visitor center next month. A statement from the National Park Service says the center will reopen April 7. It was closed in January to install a fire suppression system. The $349,000 project was paid for with National Park Service repair and rehabilitation funds. The system…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Acting on a tip, conservation officers with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources have seized two alligators from a McCracken County home. According to an account on the department’s official Facebook page, the reptiles belonged to a 55-year-old Paducah man, who admitted to having them when officers showed up at his door last Thursday….
(Credit: Pixabay)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Three people have been nominated to fill a judicial vacancy in Kentucky. The Judicial Nominating Commission announced the nominees are John Boster Adams, Eddy Frank Montgomery and John G. Prather Jr., all of Somerset. The vacancy is for the 28th Judicial Circuit, which covers Lincoln, Pulaski and Rockcastle counties. The judicial seat was held by…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police arrested an armed Kentucky man as he left a hospital after receiving a tip from another police department that he was in the area. A large police presence gathered at the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital emergency room Thursday. University officials asked students and visitors to stay away from the area. University of Kentucky Police…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Supreme Court has sided with a student newspaper in a long-running open records dispute with the state’s flagship university. The dispute is over the release of documents pertaining to a sexual misconduct investigation involving a former campus professor. It pits the University of Kentucky against the Kentucky Kernel. The court says the university’s handling of…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police and FBI agents were investigating an incident at the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital emergency room Thursday. The university sent out a campus alert around 11 a.m. asking people to avoid the area. University officials said other parts of the campus are safe and operating normally. Authorities haven’t announced why they have a presence at…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he’s vetoing a measure that would allow limited use of scholarship tax credits for private school tuition. He calls it an attack on public education. Public education advocates denounced the proposal leading up to Beshear’s veto announcement Wednesday. But the embattled bill could still become law when the Republican-led legislature reconvenes…
