FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to push for a cap on out-of-pocket costs for many Kentuckians relying on insulin. The bill has cleared a House committee and awaits action in the full House. House Bill 12 would limit out-of-pocket costs at $100 per prescription for a 30-day insulin supply. That cap…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the health insurance proposals from Democratic candidates for president would hurt business owners. During a speech Tuesday in Louisville at a conference for the Distilled Spirits Council, McConnell said he’s “never seen a Democratic party like we’re confronted with today.” He said even the centrist Democrat candidates who propose a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials are seeking final feedback on a plan to guide career and technical education in the future. Based on initial feedback, the Kentucky Department of Education revised its draft of the Carl D. Perkins State Plan. The plan is also known as the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. Stakeholders have…
GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (AP) — Wildlife officials are completing a massive harvest of invasive Asian carp from Kentucky Lake. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was on hand Monday to witness the experimental roundup that fisheries officials say could be the first of many. The roundup mainly targets bighead and silver carp. Those are two of the four invasive carp…
Kentucky Derby winning horse Country House has been retired because of a foot ailment. Country House finished second in the 2019 Derby as a 65-1 shot and was placed first after Maximum Security was disqualified. That race in May at Churchill Downs was his last. The 4-year-old developed laminitis in his right front foot and was hospitalized last summer to…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Lexington Herald-Leader) — A key Kentucky lawmaker says former Gov. Matt Bevin’s four last appointments to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees were out of compliance with state law. Senate President Robert Stivers, a Republican from Manchester, tells the Lexington Herald Leader that the Senate will be unable to confirm Republicans Bevin appointed late last year because…
LAKE ST. LOUIS, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Authorities in eastern Missouri say it was two Kentucky mothers and their 12-year-old daughters who were killed in a head-on crash near Lake Saint Louis on Friday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 44-year-old Carrie McCaw and her daughter, 12-year-old Kacey McCaw, and 44-year-old Lesley Prather and her daughter, 12-year-old Rhyan Prather,…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee university plans to offer discounted tuition to students from nine surrounding states. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the new regional tuition program will start this fall at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Under the program, students from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia would pay about…
GREENUP, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky teacher seen on video dragging an elementary school student has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. The Daily Independent reports the plea agreement reached Wednesday calls for Trina Abrams to serve 120 days of home confinement as part of a two-year probation sentence. Abrams was a teacher at Wurtland Elementary in Greenup…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say two sites in Kentucky and two in Tennessee have been added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville and the SEEK Museum in Russellville are the two new sites in Kentucky. In Memphis, Tennessee, the Beale Street Historic District and the WDIA radio station were also added to the…
