LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man accused of carrying parts of his girlfriend’s body in duffel bags he took aboard a bus from Louisville to Chicago has been extradited back to his home state. WDRB-TV reports 30-year-old Melvin Martin Jr. was arraigned Thursday morning in Jefferson County District Court in Louisville following his arrest in suburban Chicago last month….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal prosecutor’s office says a Kansas man has been indicted on charges that he made a threat over the Breonna Taylor investigation during a phone call to the Kentucky attorney general’s office. Twenty-nine-year-old Wesley Forrest Clay of Olathe, Kansas, was accused of calling a phone line in Frankfort dedicated to the Taylor investigation and making…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The First Unitarian Church of Louisville has for months played a background role in the protest movement in a downtown square a mile away — dropping off ice, bandaging wounds. Congregants had humbled themselves with the hard self-reflection they believe all white Americans must undertake: They considered their church’s progressive actions throughout history, but also the…
(AP) — Bob Baffert is aiming to win a record-breaking eighth Preakness Stakes with Authentic or Thousand Words. He’ll try to do so with right-hand man Jimmy Barnes 3,000 miles away back in California. Barnes broke his right wrist when Thousand Words reared up in the paddock before the Kentucky Derby that Authentic went on to win. Baffert is jokingly…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — The National Quilt Museum in western Kentucky is now offering online subscriptions. Museum CEO Frank Bennett told The Paducah Sun that Quilt Museum Digital was launched Tuesday as a way to reach quilting and fiber art enthusiasts around the world. Bennett says he felt the move was necessary given the continuing safety protocols due to the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge has delayed until Friday the release of secret grand jury proceedings in Breonna Taylor’s killing by police. Audio recordings of the proceedings were originally supposed to be made public Wednesday. State Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office asked a Louisville court for a week’s delay, so it could edit out the names of witnesses…
MOUNT VERNON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a company that manufactures metal compressed air sprayers plans to open a production plant in eastern Kentucky that will create up to 100 jobs. Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday in a statement that Chapin International Inc. plans to relocate part of existing operations in New York and Ohio to the facility in Rockcastle…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bill to create national medication and safety standards for the horse racing industry to discourage use of performance-enhancing drugs that can lead to horse injuries and deaths. Approval of the “Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act” comes after the racing industry has been hit by a series of doping scandals and a rash…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The Lakers primarily wear purple and gold. The main Heat colors are red and black. And these NBA Finals seem tinged in blue — Kentucky blue, to be precise. No matter what happens in this title series, Kentucky’s list of NBA champions is sure to grow. Anthony Davis, Rajon Rondo and coach Frank Vogel…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A court will release the secret deliberations of a grand jury that considered charges against police in connection to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Attorney General Daniel Cameron has acknowledged that he never asked the jury to consider homicide charges against the officers who conducted the drug raid in which Taylor was killed. He revealed…
