LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker has announced a new organization to build on the progressive causes he championed during his campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He hopes that the organization, Hood to the Holler, will unite Kentuckians of different racial and economic backgrounds on issues of democratic participation, climate justice and more. The…
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s mayor says that President Donald Trump violated the city’s mask rule just before Georgia’s governor sued the city over its rules that people wear face coverings to guard against the coronavirus. In an interview on CBS “This Morning” on Friday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms questioned the timing of the lawsuit filed after Trump’s Wednesday visit to…
MITO, Japan (AP) — A return of coronavirus restrictions in Israel, another daily record of confirmed cases in Japan’s capital and fresh outbreaks in such remote regions as China’s Xinjiang region underscored the ongoing battle to quash down COVID-19 flare-ups. Outbreaks in the world’s latest hot spots pushed the confirmed global case tally toward 14 million on Friday. India said…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a bridge that connects Wickliffe, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois, will be closed to traffic for extensive maintenance next month. A statement from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said the U.S. 51 Ohio River “Cairo” Bridge is scheduled to close in early August and remain closed for about a month. The statement says crews plan to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky-based Medicaid managed care company has agreed to be purchased by a competitor in a deal expected to preserve hundreds of jobs. The deal announced Friday calls for Passport Health Plan to be purchased by Molina Healthcare of California. Molina says the purchase price is about $20 million. The announcement comes six weeks after Passport…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Amy McGrath continued her blistering fundraising pace in the spring. She outdistanced Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for another quarter in their free-spending campaign in Kentucky. Despite her prodigious pace, McGrath ended the quarter with slightly less money in the bank after spending heavily at the end of her bumpier-than-expected primary battle against state…
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — County officials in western Kentucky have decided to keep a century-old Confederate statue at the community’s courthouse. The Paducah Sun reports the Calloway County Fiscal Court voted unanimously Wednesday to leave the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee where it stands. The decision came despite calls over the last six weeks for the statue’s removal,…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is adamant that he wants another four years in office, but it’s less clear what he would do with them. The Republican president repeatedly assailed Democratic rival Joe Biden during a rambling, hourlong Rose Garden news conference Tuesday but offered few clues about what he would do if he remains in the White…
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — County officials in western Kentucky have decided to keep a century-old Confederate statue at the community’s courthouse. The Paducah Sun reports the Calloway County Fiscal Court voted unanimously Wednesday to leave the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee where it stands. The decision came despite calls over the last six weeks for the statue’s removal,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee is sharply restricting attendance on three of the four nights of its convention in Jacksonville, Florida, next month as coronavirus cases are spiking in the state. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel says only the roughly 2,500 regular delegates to the convention will be permitted to attend the opening three nights. Delegates, their guests and…
