FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have advanced a spending plan that would pump money into full-day kindergarten. The Senate budget committee sent the proposal to the Senate on Tuesday — the final day of this year’s legislative session. The proposal includes $140 million in state funds for full-day kindergarten. Kentucky’s school districts now get state funding for half-day kindergarten,…
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The family of a Kentucky man who was killed in action in World War I is donating his copy of the New Testament to the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports they want to share the story of Arthur Douthitt who was killed while serving in the…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have swept aside a series of the Democratic governor’s vetoes. The legislature Monday overrode vetoes of bills to change retirement benefits for new teachers and shield legislative records from public scrutiny. The bills were part of stacks of vetoes by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Lawmakers plunged into overrides on the next-to-last day…
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…
