WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate vote on a wide-ranging defense policy bill is being delayed by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The Republican objects to a provision in the bill that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Germany. Paul’s objection raises the slim prospect of a government shutdown if a short-term spending bill…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Veteran journalist Rick Green will step down as editor of the Courier Journal months after the Kentucky newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize under his leadership. The newspaper reports Green is taking a buyout offered by Gannett, the Courier Journal’s parent company. He was named editor in May 2018 and the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Employees of the Legislative Research Commission have launched a campaign to send hand-written holiday cards to every long-term care facility around Kentucky. They say the goal is to send at least one card to each facility, but some have asked for cards for each resident. There are around 250 facilities. Commission Director Jay Hartz said social…
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky whiskey producer has opened a new storage warehouse that can hold about 24,000 bourbon barrels. Four Roses says the warehouse is in Cox’s Creek. It’s the second of several warehouses to be built as part of a $21 million expansion project that began in 2015 at its Cox’s Creek operation. The updates include a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says his office has announced more than 270 economic development projects during his first year in office. That’s despite the turmoil caused by the coronavirus. Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday those projects totaled more than $2.5 billion in investments by private-sector companies and will create more than 8,700 full-time jobs. In 2020, the average…
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky chiropractor has been arrested on sex charges involving juvenile patients. News outlets cited police and court records in reporting that 32-year-old Matthew J. Colasanti was charged Monday with first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse. He operates Colasanti Chiropractic in Elizabethtown. An arrest citation says one juvenile told police Colasanti offered to give…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Andy Beshear’s first year as Kentucky’s governor has been consumed by the COVID-19 crisis. He made decisions to restrict public life that once seemed unimaginable as infections and deaths mounted. Amid waves of spiking coronavirus cases, the governor temporarily closed or scaled back businesses and halted in-person classes. He preached the virtues of wearing masks in…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A mentoring organization in Lexington is launching a new virtual program for teens. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass President Andrea Ooten told WKYT-TV the organization aims to use a virtual format to match volunteers with up to 50 youths in central Kentucky. Ooten says the online format may help with any time constraints because…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — While Senate leader Mitch McConnell is at the center of talks on another coronavirus relief bill, hardships are mounting in his home state of Kentucky. In Louisville, Paula and Anthony Hunter saw their catering and restaurant businesses slam to a halt because of the pandemic. They relied on federal assistance to help stay afloat. Now, months…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A scholarship for Kentucky high school students will honor a 27-year-old man fatally shot at a protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Tyler Gerth was killed in late June near a demonstration at Louisville’s Jefferson Square Park. The Tyler Gerth Memorial Foundation announced Tuesday that a scholarship in his honor would be established to…
