FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is restoring a workplace safety board that was abolished by former Gov. Matt Bevin. Beshear says the move to reestablish the 12-member Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is an effort to strengthen safety in the workplace. Bevin used an executive order in July 2018 to get rid of the board. Beshear,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have responded to ex-Matt Bevin’s flurry of pardons. Bills have been introduced to put checks on gubernatorial pardon powers and ensure victims are notified before their assailants are pardoned. Bevin issued hundreds of pardons between his election defeat and his final day in office on Dec. 9. Several stirred outrage from victims or their…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 145,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%, signaling that the job market remains strong at the start of 2020 even if hiring and wage gains have slowed somewhat more than a decade into an economic expansion. Friday’s snapshot from the Labor Department showed hiring slipped from robust gains of…
File PicLOUISVILLE Ky. (AP) — A Louisville man who fired a stray bullet that killed a 7-year-old boy in 2017 has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges. Twenty-five-year-old Wyatt Lamar Williams was charged in October with three counts of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm. Investigators say Williams fired several shots while playing…
(AP) — A newly released batch of emails and text messages shows Boeing employees raising doubts among themselves about the safety of the 737 Max and talking about hiding problems from regulators. The documents came to light Thursday, nearly 10 months after the aircraft was grounded over two catastrophic crashes. They are likely to fuel allegations that the aircraft…
(AP) — Forecasters are warning of hurricane-force wind gusts and hail the size of baseballs as a potent storm threatens to spin up tornadoes and drench the South with heavy rains. The national Storm Prediction Center said more than 18 million people in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma will be at an enhanced threat of storms that could include strong…
PINE KNOT, Ky. (AP) – Drivers traveling along a Kentucky highway didn’t have to check their direct messages to be asked the infamous sexting request: send nudes. An electronic road sign that was hacked early Thursday morning asked drivers on Highway 92 in Pine Knot to “send nudes.” Kentucky transportation officials say the sign belongs to a contractor working on…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The volatile illegal immigration issue has reached into the Kentucky legislature. A Republican-backed bill is aimed at preventing sanctuary policies. It also would require most public employees to use their “best efforts” to help enforce federal immigration laws. Senate President Robert Stivers touted the measure Thursday as a public-safety tool to combat Kentucky’s drug woes, including a…
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A man who killed a U.S. Marine in Kentucky has been sentenced to life without parole. A judge followed a jury’s recommendation Thursday and sentenced 36-year-old Dawan Mulazim to life without parole for the fatal shooting of Jonathan Price. He was convicted in October of intentional murder, first-degree robbery and second-degree assault in the shooting of Price….
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say jailhouse video no longer exists of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan told a judge Thursday that jail officials preserved video of the wrong jail cell and that a backup system also failed to capture footage…
