FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The newest member of the Kentucky Court of Appeals will be sworn in by video link with the event available online for the public to watch. J. Christopher McNeill was appointed last week to serve from the westernmost district of 24 counties. McNeill succeeds Justice Christopher Shea Nickell, who was elected to the state Supreme Court…
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police are asking for the public’s help in an effort to solve a 30-year-old slaying. Police say the body of 29-year-old Sharon Elaine Charles Long was found strangled on March 30, 1990 near the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 in Grant County. Police said she was last seen by her husband the previous evening…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new report says Kentucky’s state government faces a revenue shortfall that could approach $500 million in the current fiscal year. The report details the effect the coronavirus outbreak has had on the state’s economy and its revenue collections. The report says the nosedive in Kentucky’s revenue collections is expected to continue into the first half…
Web crime conceptLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The chief of police in Kentucky’s largest city says violent crime is increasing even as citizens remain under orders to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad told the city’s Public Safety Committee on Wednesday that data shows shootings are up more than…
File PhotoFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has pushed back against some of the governor’s coronavirus-related orders. Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron is taking aim at restrictions on travel and gatherings that include church services. Cameron on Tuesday threatened a lawsuit to challenge Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s ban on mass gatherings, unless the governor allows in-person church services to…
(Photo credit: WPSD/Paducah)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A teen charged in the 2018 Kentucky school shooting that killed two students has pleaded guilty to murder. Gabriel Parker was 15 when he fired a handgun into a crowd of students at Marshall County High School on Jan. 23, 2018. Parker was arrested at the school and charged with murder. He was charged…
File PhotoFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — It’s no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills. Shakur’s name was brought up by Gov. Andy Beshear Monday night as he spoke about prank claims slowing down unemployment payments, including one filed under the name of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police records say a Kentucky woman ordered to self-quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus was arrested as she left a Louisville grocery store. The Courier Journal reports 37-year-old Kendra A. Burnett was arrested Monday after her mother told a police officer she was violating a court order to self-quarantine. An arrest citation says the officer…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A second federal prosecutor has been added to the U.S. Attorney’s Branch Office in Bowling Green. U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman announced on Monday that Mark Yurchisin was sworn in as a full-time assistant United States attorney. He joins Branch Chief Madison Sewell in the office that opened in February. Yurchisin is from Warren County and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is praising Kentucky’s governor for calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to provide federal pandemic relief to state and local governments. Cuomo mentioned Gov. Andy Beshear during his daily coronavirus briefing Monday. He said Beshear “stood up” to McConnell after McConnell suggested states could go bankrupt if they have budget…
