(Credit: Pixabay)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say four former Kentucky daycare workers have been charged with abuse. Lexington police say they worked at Eagle Creek Learning Academy. Police say 32-year-old Samantha Ayers, 24-year-old Maurisa Sweat and 20-year-old Jazzmine Webb were charged Wednesday with first-degree criminal abuse. Police say 40-year-old Terri Thompson was charged with second-degree criminal abuse and failure to…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has been chosen to help lead a national task force that will offer guidance to states on economic recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Governors Association says Beshear will serve as co-chairman of its Economic Recovery and Revitalization task force. He’ll serve as co-chairman along with Gov. Henry McMaster of South…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least four Tennessee men are among the 73 people pardoned by President Donald Trump during the final hours of his term. Nashville resident Robert Sherrill founded a mentoring program for at-risk youth and a group that works to ease prisoner reentry. Knoxville’s Josh Smith founded a business then used the money from the sale of…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed bills that would limit executive powers he has been using to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Republican-led legislature completed fast-track work on the measures earlier this month. GOP lawmakers have the numbers to override any vetoes when they resume their 30-day session next month. In defending his…
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — Officials say five Kentucky men accused of being part of a drug trafficking organization were charged in federal court after authorities seized 151 pounds of methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman says a traffic stop on Jan. 11 resulted in the seizure 151 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, about three pounds of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills suspected of containing…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Officials say two classified school employees will receive the first Kentucky Education Support Staff Professional Award this week. The governor, lieutenant governor and education commissioner will present the award virtually on Tuesday to Robert Walker, a school safety and wellness coordinator in Harrison County, and Shelly Thomas, a family resource center coordinator in Barren County. A…
Georgia-Pacific logo. (PRNewsFoto/Georgia-Pacific Corp.)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Georgia-Pacific says it plans to expand its Dixie cup manufacturing operation in Kentucky while closing a facility in Pennsylvania by the end of the year. Georgia-Pacific says about 190 jobs at the Lehigh Valley plant in Easton, Pennsylvania, will be lost. The Lexington expansion will create about 50 jobs. Lehigh Valley will continue…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been named in a criminal complaint charging her with participating in the riots at the U.S. Capitol. The FBI filed an affidavit Saturday in federal court against 23-year-old Gracyn Dawn Courtright of Hurricane, West Virginia. According to the affidavit, a witness saw a video of Courtright in the halls of the…
File PhotoVADO HONDO, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan police and soldiers have used tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock. A group of about 2,000 migrants had stopped short of the roadblock Saturday night. The roadblock was strategically placed at a chokepoint on the two-lane highway to Chiquimula…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky man has been arrested on multiple charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, including at a door where a woman was fatally shot. The U.S. Justice Department says 42-year-old Chad Barrett Jones of Coxs Creek, Kentucky, was arrested Saturday in Louisville. According to an affidavit, the FBI received a public…
