RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — One Kentucky community is without a Public Works Department for two weeks after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus. Richmond City Manager Rob Minerich told the Richmond Register on Monday that the worker tested positive last week and since then contact tracers have told the city that all 21 employees in the department need to…
(AP) — A fiery debate between Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and his Democratic opponent Josh Hicks turned personal as they clashed over the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Hicks said Barr lied about some lawsuits he filed as part of his practice. Barr said Hicks lied about protecting coverage for people with pre-existing health conditions. Their faceoff in…
IRVINE, Ky. (AP) — Police say three men accused of being armed robbery suspects were shot at a home in eastern Kentucky. A statement from Kentucky State Police says one man was pronounced dead at the scene and two others were taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington with life-threatening wounds. Police say an initial investigation found that…
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…
