BRANDENBURG, Ky. (AP) — Steel producer Nucor Corp. has broken ground as construction begins on its new $1.7 billion manufacturing mill in Kentucky. The plant in Meade County is expected to create 400 full-time jobs when steel plate production begins in 2022. The average annual compensation will be $72,000. Nucor announced its plans last year. The new mill is a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The highly anticipated showdown between the AFC’s last undefeated teams turned into a Pittsburgh beatdown early and a near Tennessee comeback late. Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes to Diontae Johnson, and the Steelers remained perfect by holding off Tennessee 27-24 Sunday in a game originally scheduled for Oct. 4 and rescheduled by the Titans with…
(Photo credit: BobBaffert.com/Barbara Livingston)A filly trained by two-time Triple Crown winner Bob Baffert has tested positive in a postrace drug test for the second time this year, making it the third positive test by a horse in Baffert’s stable in the last six months. Baffert lawyer Craig Robertson has confirmed Gamine’s test results after her third-place finish in the Kentucky…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky Congressman says he won’t be taking the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available. Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie tweeted on Thursday that he hopes a vaccine is developed soon, but he doesn’t plan to use it. When asked about it by the Courier Journal, Massie said in a statement that he didn’t see the…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An educator at a Lexington elementary school has been named the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the Kentucky Department of Education announced Thursday that Donnie Piercey won the award. Piercey is a fifth grade teacher at Stonewall Elementary. He also was named Kentucky’s elementary school teacher of the year and will…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say an 82-year-old Kentucky woman who got caught in the crossfire as multiple people in separate vehicles exchanged “dozens of gunshots” has died. Lexington police say Alice Carter was an innocent bystander when the shots rang out Wednesday afternoon on Fifth Street. Carter was hit after getting out of a car and was pronounced dead…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has announced the NCAA and Southeastern Conference have granted transfers Olivier Sarr and Jacob Toppin immediate eligibility to play this season. Both post players provide experience for the Wildcats, whose only returning regular is sophomore forward Keion Brooks Jr. The 7-foot Sarr transferred this spring after three seasons at Wake Forest. He averaged 13.7 points,…
File PhotoFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky has been awarded more than $780,000 in federal funding that will be used to help protect residents from scams, fraud and price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic. Beshear announced the funding Wednesday in a statement. The Attorney General’s Office will receive funding to hire staff to address rampant COVID-related consumer…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky whiskey maker is teaming with a conservation group for a tree-planting initiative. Bulleit Frontier Whiskey says it’s working with the group American Forests for the project. Bulleit says the goal is to plant 1 million trees in the next five years. In addition to its reforestation efforts, Bulleit says it has committed to supporting…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — An audit of a Kentucky city found nearly $764,000 in missing cash receipts, undocumented personal expenses and account credits over a six-year period ending last year. WHAS-TV reported that the findings of the audit have been turned over to Kentucky State Police and an investigation is ongoing. Certified public accountant Linda Gray outlined how the money…
