FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Senate has approved a bill to require doctors and other health workers to provide life-sustaining care for an infant born alive after a failed abortion attempt. The measure sailed through the Senate on a 32-0 vote Monday. It heads to the House next. It’s the latest in a series of abortion-related bills to surface in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Senate has passed legislation to require that police officers be armed when assigned to schools. The bill cleared the Senate on a 34-1 vote Monday and now goes to the House. The measure is a follow-up to last year’s sweeping school safety law. That law did not specify whether school police officers needed to carry…
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) U.S. stocks are closing with sharp losses as investors worry about the potential economic impact of the outbreak of a new virus from China. The declines in the U.S. followed a sell-off in markets in Europe and Japan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 453 points, or 1.6%, to 28,535. The S&P 500 index fell 51…
File PhotoFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — School choice advocates in Kentucky have renewed their push to create scholarship tax credits for private schools. The proposal continues to run into strong resistance from public school supporters. The state’s governor, Democrat Andy Beshear, also opposes the proposal. The legislation would give tax credits to people or businesses donating to scholarship funds for special-needs…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The president and CEO of Kentucky Lottery Corp. will be stepping down in March. Tom Delacenserie said in a statement that his retirement from the position will be effective March 6. Delacenserie took the role in 2017 and in that time span lottery sales increased from about $1 billion to more than $1.1 billion. The lottery…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education has chosen a new chairman. He is Ben Brandstetter of Hebron. He replaces outgoing Chairman Sherrill Zimmerman of Prospect. Brandstetter is president of Brandstetter Carroll Inc., a national architectural and engineering firm. The council said in a news release Kimberley Halbauer of Fort Thomas was chosen as vice chairwoman. Halbaurer…
LOS ANGELES – Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 41. A person familiar with the situation tells the AP that Bryant died in a crash near Calabasas, California. It was unclear if other family members were on the helicopter. Bryant was an 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of…
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky prosecutor has been absent from court in the weeks since it was revealed that he asked former Gov. Matt Bevin to pardon a man convicted of sexual abuse. Two judges in Christian County say there is an agreement between them and Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling that he remain absent from their courtrooms for the “foreseeable…
CALIFORNIA, Ky. – Police in Kentucky say a charter bus carrying students from a Catholic high school collided with a car, killing the car’s driver. WLWT-TV reports the crash in Campbell County happened around 7:20 a.m. on Saturday as the bus was bringing Covington Catholic High School students back from the March for Life rally in Washington. Two people aboard…
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky freshman forward Kahlil Whitney says on Twitter that his time at the school “has not gone as I had hoped” and that he will leave the No. 15 Wildcats. The 6-foot-6, 210-pound high school All-American averaged 3.3 points and 1.7 rebounds and started eight of Kentucky’s first 11 games. He hasn’t played more than 11 minutes…
