FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — The 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell has deployed about 10 soldiers from the Kentucky post to New Jersey to help with coronavirus pandemic relief there. The post, located on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, said the soldiers are logistics experts assigned to the 101st Division Sustainment Brigade. They deployed to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey,…
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in western Kentucky is encouraging fans to visit by taking a new virtual tour of its exhibits. The museum in Owensboro has been closed to the public for more than a month due to the coronavirus pandemic. Officials said in a statement last week that the online tour…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky has ordered companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to pay more than $1 million in fees and expenses in a lawsuit that accused them of defaulting on a mining contract. The judge on Friday denied a motion by the James C. Justice Companies and subsidiary Kentucky Fuel to reconsider…
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — A 2-year-old colt has died after what’s being called an accident at Santa Anita, making it the 12th fatality at the Southern California track since late December. Last Renegade had yet to make his racing debut for trainer Peter Eurton. According to the California Horse Racing Board website, the colt died Friday. No further details were…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a high school football star who had signed a letter of intent to play for the University of Louisville was fatally shot late Saturday night. Orlando police say Dexter Rentz Jr. was the only one killed when four people were shot in a crime called in to authorities shortly after 11 p.m….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky is partially lifting restrictions in its fight against the coronavirus with the reopening of health-care businesses Monday. Included are health-care clinics, medical and dental offices, optometrists, and physical therapy and chiropractic offices. Also covered are diagnostic, radiology and lab services. The resumption of such services in nursing homes and prisons are not included. Neither are…
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Police have charged a Kentucky man in the killing of his wife, who has been missing since October. Thirty-nine-year-old Glenn Jackson was arrested Friday and charged with murder-domestic violence and evidence tampering. The body of his wife, 48-year-old Ella Diebolt Jackson, 48, is still missing. Richmond Police say they found her blood in the trunk of…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Doctors at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital’s emergency department say they believe sick people are avoiding the hospital for fear of catching COVID-19. The daily arrivals at the emergency department have fallen by more than half to about 130 on average since early March. Doctors held a news conference Friday. The ER has performed 1,800…
WELLINGTON, Fla. (The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post) — Authorities say a Florida construction worker called in a bomb threat to a water treatment facility to get a day off work. The Palm Beach Post reports that 36-year-old Richard Hamilton was arrested Thursday and charged with making a bomb threat. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says more than 20 people…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities said a man on the run and wanted in connection to a killing in California was arrested in Kentucky. Frederick McGowan was taken into custody around Thursday and charged with federal unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. An arrest warrant from Los Angeles County said 59-year-old McGowan was accused of fatally shooting 43-year-old Earl Chiles in…
