BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon fans will be doing virtual toasts at this year’s Kentucky Bourbon Festival. The festival’s board has shifted the event to a virtual experience because of the coronavirus. Festival organizers say the virtual option was decided on to help protect the safety of distilleries and the health of bourbon fans and the Bardstown community, where the…
File PhotoFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s highest court will hear oral arguments next month in the legal showdown over Gov. Andy Beshear’s COVID-19 emergency orders. The state Supreme Court on Friday scheduled arguments for Sept. 17. The case pits the Democratic governor against the Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron. Cameron contends the governor overstepped his constitutional authority with the orders….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — First, Oprah Winfrey put Breonna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid. Twenty-six billboards are going up across Louisville, Kentucky, demanding that the police officers involved in Taylor’s death be arrested…
GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — A six-state yard sale that stretches from Alabama to Michigan is being held this weekend despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning Thursday and ending Sunday, thousands of people will travel a 690-mile-long stretch of Middle America during what’s called The World’s Longest Yard Sale. Organizers say they might not get the usual crowd estimated at…
HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A ferry that is the only direct route between Kentucky and Missouri has reopened after being out of service for several weeks while engine repairs were made. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the Dorena-Hickman Ferry reopened Thursday afternoon on the regular summer operating schedule. The ferry connects Kentucky 1354 at Hickman, Kentucky, with Missouri Route A…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say the public answered their invitation to cover their cruisers with stickers, raising more than $16,000 for Special Olympics of Kentucky. State police requested a minimum donation of $1 to place a custom Special Olympics sticker on a cruiser, but more than the minimum was donated. The Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor has extended his mask-wearing requirement to combat the coronavirus. Gov. Andy Beshear also announced the state fair will be limited to participants only. The actions come as the state tries to halt a recent spike in coronavirus cases. Kentucky reported 516 new virus cases Thursday and eight more virus-related deaths. Beshear says his mask-wearing…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An animal rights group is calling for a tougher enforcement of cockfighting breeders in Kentucky. They say some breeders are shipping birds overseas. The group Animal Welfare Action took aim at Kentucky’s cockfighting law and urged federal investigators to look at a handful of rooster breeders. The group sent letters on Thursday to Kentucky’s two U.S….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A civil liberties group says its lawsuit challenging former Gov. Matt Bevin’s practice of blocking some people on Twitter and Facebook has been settled. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky said Thursday that it reached the settlement with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s office. Beshear defeated Bevin in last year’s election. The ACLU says the settlement…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal and state officers are executing search warrants and planning new rounds of interviews in the search for a Kentucky woman who disappeared five years ago. The FBI in Louisville announced Thursday it has taken the lead on the investigation into the disappearance of Crystal Rogers. She went missing in Nelson County in July 2015. Her…
