CATLETTSBURG, Ky. (AP) — The bodies of two people who were reported missing in Kentucky more than a month ago likely died in a car crash weeks ago. The Boyd County Coroner’s Office says the remains of 40-year-old Laura Carter-Broughton and 49-year-old Donald Griffith were found Friday night in a car that had gone over an embankment near Catlettsburg. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The high court said Monday it would not take the case involving Kim Davis, the former clerk of Rowan County. Davis drew nationwide…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor has relaunched a health insurance program with an expanded mission to sign up people for an array of assistance services. The program is still called kynect. Gov. Andy Beshear says it will allow Kentuckians to sign up for health coverage and other benefits — including food assistance, job training, foster care and substance abuse…
File PicLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A police officer wounded during protests rekindled by a Kentucky grand jury’s decision to not charge officers in the death of Breonna Taylor has been released from the hospital. Louisville Metro Police Officer Robinson Desroches and another officer were shot on Sept. 23. The shootings happened during protests in the hours after prosecutors announced a…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say they knocked and identified themselves for a minute or more before bursting into Breonna Taylor’s apartment. But her boyfriend says he did not hear officers announce themselves. That’s according to Kentucky grand jury recordings released Friday. In the hail of gunfire that ensued, the 26-year-old Black woman was killed. The dramatic and conflicting accounts…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based social justice organization is planning a demonstration to protest President Donald Trump’s selection to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Poor People’s Campaign said Friday that it plans to hold caravan protests on Monday at the offices of North Carolina Republican Sen….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hours of material in the grand jury proceedings for Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting by police have been made public. The release Friday was rare since such material is normally kept secret. The jury brought no criminal charges against the officers for her killing, setting off renewed protests in Louisville and around the country. A court ruled…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An audio recording of grand jury proceedings that ended with no criminal charges against police officers for Breonna Taylor’s death is expected to be released. A court in Louisville, Kentucky, ruled that the usually secret proceedings should be made public by noon Friday. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office led the investigation into police actions in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he and first lady Melania Trump are beginning a “quarantine process” as they await coronavirus test results after a top aide he spent substantial time with this week tested positive for COVID-19. Trump told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity that Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, tested positive for the virus Thursday….
