FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s unemployment director was quietly fired in May as the state dealt with a record number of jobless claims due to the coronavirus pandemic. WFPL’s Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting cited a personnel file in reporting that Office of Unemployment Insurance Director Muncie McNamara was fired May 5 “without cause,” four months after being hired. McNamara…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s unemployment director was quietly fired in May as the state dealt with a record number of jobless claims due to the coronavirus pandemic. WFPL’s Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting cited a personnel file in reporting that Office of Unemployment Insurance Director Muncie McNamara was fired May 5 “without cause,” four months after being hired. McNamara…
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve charged a 70-year-old Kentucky man with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl after he approached her while she was riding a bike. Kentucky State Police say the girl was biking down a Barbourville street Saturday when Benny Hammons drove up and asked her to drive his car while he loaded her bike…
Judiciary officials say a gunman shot and killed the 20-year-old son of a federal judge as he answered the door of the family home Sunday in New Jersey, and shot and wounded the judge’s husband before fleeing. The attack occurred at the North Brunswick home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and killed her son, Daniel, Chief District Judge Freda…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams says there is a shortage of poll workers, and he wants to change that before the November election. Adams’ office said in a news release that each voting location by law must have four poll workers, evenly split between registered Democrats and Republicans. The release said June’s primary election offered…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A prosecutor is dropping a felony charge against dozens of protesters who gathered at the Kentucky Attorney General’s home to demand justice in Breonna Taylor’s death. The group of protesters included civil rights leaders, a reality TV star and a professional football player. Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office is heading an investigation into the fatal shooting…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced Kentucky businessman and Democrat Party stalwart Jerry Lundergan to 21 months in prison. Lundergan is the father of former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. He was convicted in September of making illegal contributions to Grimes’ failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2014. Lundergan was sentenced in federal court on Thursday….
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, using a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag. The policy is laid out in a memo signed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper and released Friday. It was described by officials as a creative way to bar the flag’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and that she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks. She spent time in the hospital this…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Serena Williams is planning to make her return to competition at a new hard-court tournament in Kentucky next month. It’ll be the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion’s first action since playing for the U.S. in the Fed Cup in February, before all sanctioned tennis was shut down the next month because of the coronavirus pandemic. The…
