LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A sharp increase in the number of visitors to Kentucky’s Red River Gorge has the U.S. Forest Service considering changes that would improve safety and accessibility for people and add more protection for wilderness areas. Officials with the Daniel Boone National Forest are holding a virtual public meeting Tuesday to gauge public opinion on recommendations that…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky state government employee has been accused of running an illegal Viagra distribution scheme for more four years. A federal grand jury indicted Howard Stanley Head Jr., of Franklin County, last week on conspiracy and other charges for the scheme he is accused of running from July 2015 to Oct. 2019. The indictment says…
RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) — Dozens of veterans who did not receive military funeral honors during the coronavirus pandemic will be honored during ceremonies in Kentucky this week. Fort Knox says the belated funeral honors for 65 veterans who died during the pandemic will be given Tuesday at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-Central at Radcliff. The post and the Kentucky Department of Veterans…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden has defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. Biden vanquished his Republican foe after a campaign as bitter and divisive as Trump’s own presidential term. Victories in “blue wall” northern industrial states propelled Biden to the White House, where he’ll confront America’s deep health, economic and social ills….
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky says federal officials are investigating an online diversity training session where students were put into a mandatory break-out session “that segregated students by race.” UK spokesman Jay Blanton told the Lexington Herald Leader that the episode in August is being reviewed by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Blanton said…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky along with two Kentucky hospitals will conduct a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. UK will partner with Baptist Health Lexington and Norton Healthcare in Louisville for Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies phase three clinical study. The study will evaluate Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. A university press release says the clinical trial will…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s bar and restaurant operators are getting a break from alcoholic beverage renewal fees to help cope with restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear said the state is granting a 12-month renewal fee waiver to current license holders. He says bar and restaurant operators who haven’t submitted the renewal fee this year…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are locked in tight races in battleground states across the country. Trump won Florida, Ohio and Iowa, important battlegrounds, but races were too early to call in other fiercely contested states, including North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Both candidates, meanwhile, won a number of expected states. Both parties unseated…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Incumbents have held strong in all six of Kentucky’s congressional races as voters returned five Republicans and one Democrat back to Washington. Republican Andy Barr defeated Democrat challenger Josh Hicks in Tuesday’s election in the most anticipated U.S. House race. The central Kentucky district includes Lexington, the state’s second-largest city. Barr had been a target of…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has won a seventh term in Kentucky. McConnell is the chief ally of President Donald Trump in Congress and the longest-serving Republican Senate leader in history. The 78-year-old McConnell defeated Democrat Amy McGrath. She’s a retired Marine combat pilot who challenged him as a political outsider. McConnell touted his leadership…
