FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A House Democrat is pushing for a constitutional measure in Kentucky to automatically restore voting rights for felons who complete their sentences. The proposed constitutional amendment would be a permanent and broader follow-up to an executive order previously signed by Gov. Andy Beshear. That order restored voting rights for more than 140,000 nonviolent offenders who completed…
GREENUP, Ky. (AP) — Police say Ohio officers have shot and wounded a suspect during a vehicle pursuit that ended in Kentucky. Kentucky State Police say the pursuit began in Sciota County, Ohio, when officers attempted a traffic stop and the driver fled. Police say shots were fired twice from the fleeing vehicle and Ohio officers returned fire as the…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky are sponsoring three bills affecting the transgender community. News outlets report Democrat candidate Ramona Thomas plans to fight the legislation if elected to the statehouse. Thomas began transitioning in 2017. She believes the bills are a result of a lack of LGBT people in state government. One bill would prohibit students from…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky company that specializes in storing and processing Kentucky-grown hemp for the purpose of cannabidiol oil extraction and refinement will benefit from a $1 million grant. Gov. Andy Beshear and the Department for Local Government announced the Community Development Block Grant to Mount Vernon on Tuesday. Beshear’s office said in a news release that the…
DORTON, Ky. – Kentucky State Police say they fatally shot the driver of a vehicle fleeing from authorities and heading toward a separate fatal crash scene. State police were at the scene of a fatal crash in eastern Kentucky on Tuesday morning when they were notified of a fleeing vehicle heading in their direction. Troopers went to pursue the vehicle…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has proposed spending increases for public education from kindergarten through college and for health care in his first budget plan. Beshear’s proposal avoids spending cuts and counts on limited new revenues from taxes on cigarettes and sports betting. The Democratic governor unveiled his budget in a speech Tuesday evening to the Republican-led legislature….
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica. It was centered 139 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and 140 kilometers (87 miles) west-southwest of Niquero, Cuba. It hit at 2:10 p.m. (1910 GMT) and the epicenter was a relatively shallow 10 kilometers…
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The corporate owner of a New Orleans horse racing track has met with Louisiana’s Racing Commission to address a surge in horse deaths there. The Times-Picayune/The News Orleans Advocate reports an executive director for Kentucky-based Churchill Downs Inc. presented the commission with a list of reforms to consider on Monday. The proposals include restrictions on certain…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Police in Kentucky have arrested a man in the 2018 death and sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl. Lexington police spokeswoman Brenna Angel says officers on Monday charged 33-year-old Andrew Charles Buster Jr., with murder and sodomy. A police statement says officers in December 2018 responded to an apartment where the girl was found unresponsive. She died…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky Islamic leader accused of involvement in a murder for hire plot pleaded guilty Monday to some of the charges against him. Court records obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader show Mahmoud Shaker Shalash entered guilty pleas in federal court to conspiring to kidnap someone and two counts of money laundering. The Islamic Center of Lexington’s…
