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…
BRISTOL, England (AP) — Officials in the English city of Bristol have removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the pedestal after demonstrators pulled down…
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The United States has carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed. Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death Thursday at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Purkey was convicted of kidnapping and killing…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Board of Education has given new education commissioner Jason Glass a four-year contract with an annual salary of $260,000. The contract approved Wednesday begins Sept. 14. Glass is a native of Brandenburg, Kentucky. Since 2017, he has been superintendent of Colorado’s second largest school district, Jeffco Public Schools in the metro Denver area. He…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has asked separate courts to uphold some of his executive actions to combat COVID-19. In both court filings, the Democratic governor says Kentucky is embroiled in “a life-and-death battle” against the coronavirus. In a filing Tuesday, Beshear asked a Franklin County Circuit Court judge to declare he acted within his authority when…
(Photo credit: BobBaffert.com/Barbara Livingston)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for 15 days by Oaklawn Park stewards after two of his horses tested positive in Arkansas for a banned substance. The stewards said in a ruling that the suspension runs from Aug. 1 to Aug. 15. They said Baffert violated a rule that states…
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say troopers fatally shot a man who ended an hourslong standoff with officers by coming out of a residence and refusing orders to drop a gun. A state police statement says Shepherdsville police originally went there Tuesday night seeking 22-year-old Tyler Blevens, who was wanted on felony warrants including wanton endangerment of a…
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has become the latest major retailer to require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores. The nation’s largest retailer said the policy will go into effect on Monday to give the company time to inform stores and customers. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company said that currently about 65% of…
