FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has announced proposals in health care, education and law enforcement training that are aimed at addressing “systemic racism.” Protests over police treatment of African Americans have gone on for days in Kentucky and around the country. The governor says we are “living through historic times.” Beshear said he would work to find…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge in Richmond has issued an injunction preventing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration from removing an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee for the next 10 days. The temporary injunction order issued Monday says the state is a party to a deed recorded in March 1890 whereby it accepted the statue, pedestal and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The mother of a popular Kentucky barbecue cook killed by law enforcement at his business last week says she wants peace and justice for her son and she’s going to make sure he gets it. Odessa Riley addressed reporters Monday outside the Louisville business where David McAtee was fatally shot. Flanked by her attorney, she said…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old motorist in Tennessee has been charged with recklessly driving into a group of demonstrators who were protesting police brutality, striking four. According to police documents, Anthony Marcuzzo slowly drove his Chevrolet Tahoe into a line of people “and continued to move forward, pushing through the four demonstrators” during a Friday protest in…
????????????????????????????????????LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Lexington police are looking for a teen accused of killing two people last year. The Lexington Police Department said 18-year-old Kenneth Jacoby Jackson is the third person charged in connection with the fatal shootings of Dwayne Slaughter and Darrian Webb. De’Shaun Armor and John Boulder were charged in January. Police say the 18-year-old victims were riding…
JAMESTOWN, Ky. (WKYT-TV) — Officials searching for two men in a Kentucky lake have pulled two bodies from the water. Russell County Emergency Manager H.M. Bottom told WKYT-TV that crews searching Lake Cumberland found something on sonar Sunday evening and a robot helped recover the bodies. He said the bodies were turned over early Monday to Coroner Mark Coots for…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A city work crew has removed a Confederate statue from a prominent location in Louisville, Kentucky. Mayor Greg Fischer said the work began about 6 a.m. Monday to remove the John Breckenridge Castleman monument from Cherokee Triangle. Shortly thereafter, only a bare pedestal remained. The move comes following a Jefferson Circuit Court ruling Friday that allowed…
BOSTON (AP) — A vigil is planned in Boston to demand justice for a black woman killed by Kentucky police in March. The Friday evening event in the newly renamed Nubian Square in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is meant to remember Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman killed by Louisville police on Mar. 13. Friday would have been her birthday. Meanwhile,…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto says a controversial mural at the school that has been the object of protest for its depictions of black people and Native Americans is coming down. Capilouto’s message Friday to students, faculty and staff said the mural makes it difficult to address important matters. Capilouto says the mural “carries with…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln tower over visitors to Kentucky’s Capitol, but the state’s governor doesn’t think the Confederate president belongs in the same space as the U.S. president who helped end slavery. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that he sees the Davis statue as a divisive symbol that should be removed from…
