FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s fall wildfire hazard season begins Thursday, and officials have announced outdoor burning restrictions. Gov. Andy Beshear said predictions are for a worse than average fire season. He says everyone should be vigilant outdoors and abide by burning restrictions. Beshear’s office says restrictions in effect each year from Oct. 1 to Dec. 15 and Feb. 15…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has agreed to comply with a judge’s order to release the recordings of the secret grand jury proceeding that considered charges against police involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. A grand jury member sued to have the record of the proceedings be opened to the public. Attorney General Daniel Cameron has…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The lone Kentucky detective charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor has pleaded not guilty. Brett Hankison’s plea Monday comes five days after a grand jury indicted him on three counts of “wanton endangerment” for firing into the home of Taylor’s neighbors. Hankison was one of three undercover narcotics detectives who opened fire…
Image Source: www.atticascott4ky.comLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A curfew is being lifted in Louisville, Kentucky, where many people have been arrested for refusing to stop their nighttime protests after a grand jury’s decision not to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said in a statement that he decided to allow the curfew to expire…
Kentucky Derby winner Authentic is the morning line favorite for the Preakness. Authentic is 9-5 on the morning line and drew the No. 9 post in a field of 11 horses. The race will be run without spectators. The draw on Monday lacked the usual fanfare of owners and trainers packing into a crowded tent in the infield at Pimlico…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A crowd marched in Louisville’s streets chanting “Breonna Taylor, say her name” on Sunday evening, the fifth night of protests after a grand jury declined to charge officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Louisville’s mayor urged people to begin heading home about an hour before the curfew was set to begin on Sunday as…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who authorities accuse of requesting $30,000 to shoot police officers in Louisville in a social media video while he was brandishing a gun has been arrested. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky said 29-year-old Cortez Lamont Edwards made the statements Wednesday on a Facebook Live video. Authorities say Edwards,…
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) — Police say a Kentucky boy has been charged in the slayings of a woman and a 12-year-old girl. Kentucky State Police said in a statement Friday that the boy was taken into custody in Jefferson County after authorities found the bodies of 33-year-old Tefani Noe and 12-year-old Brooke Goggin at a home in Lawrenceburg. WAVE-TV reported…
President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Trump has fiercely guarded his tax filings, becoming the only president in modern times not to make them public. The details of the tax filings complicate…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker spent a night in jail after her arrest during protests demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. State Rep. Attica Scott was arrested and charged Thursday evening with first-degree rioting, a felony, and two misdemeanor counts: unlawful assembly and failure to disperse. The Black lawmaker on Friday called the charges “ludicrous.” She says she’ll redouble…
