(AP) President Donald Trump is calling members of the military to share greetings ahead of the Christmas holiday. Trump is speaking by video conference with service members from his private club in Florida, where is he is on a more than two-week vacation. Trump has been largely out of the spotlight since delivering a speech to conservative students in nearby…
(AP) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Melania Trump is quietly forging her way through President Donald Trump’s impeachment. She hasn’t tweeted or said anything publicly about her husband becoming the third U.S. president to be impeached. Two of her predecessors, Pat Nixon and Hillary Clinton, publicly defended their husbands as they faced impeachment. But Melania Trump has felt no similar need to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is touting the benefits for Kentucky in the recent government spending bill signed into law last week. McConnell said in a news conference Monday in Louisville that his leadership role allows Kentucky to “punch above its weight.” He says he had a direct hand in securing $400 million for a new veterans…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has reached a settlement with Adidas. The Hall of Fame coach and the global sportswear company issued a joint statement Monday but didn’t release terms of the settlement, which said all issues were resolved. Pitino told the Courier Journal he had “nothing to add.” Pitino sued Adidas in October 2017 in…
(AP) Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is getting a boost from one of the leading Latinos in Congress. Rep. Tony Cárdenas of California endorsed the former vice president Monday as Democrats’ best hope to defeat President Donald Trump. Cárdenas chairs Bold PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Cárdenas’ announcement follows presidential candidate Bernie Sanders campaigning this weekend with…
(AP) BOONEVILLE, Ky. – The owner of a market in an eastern Kentucky county has been charged with food stamp fraud totaling more than $2 million. A federal grand jury indicted Billy Joe Goe, owner of Joe’s Meat Market in Owsley County. His son Robert Goe was also charged in the Thursday indictments. Both men face one charge of conspiring…
(AP) PRESTONSBURG, Ky. – Authorities say six more horses have been found fatally shot near a strip mine site in eastern Kentucky. WYMT-TV reports the horses appear to have been killed during the same shooting that killed at least 15 other horses along U.S. 23 near the Floyd-Pike County line. The Floyd County sheriff has said the scene looked like…
(AP) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A police chief in North Carolina says a deadly shooting at a city building was an act of “workplace violence.” Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson says the gunman at a city building was killed during a gunfight with police officers who responded to the scene. She says the gunman was a 60-year-old city employee who shot…
(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Boeing’s new Starliner capsule is in the wrong orbit after launching for the first time and will have to skip its visit to the International Space Station. Friday’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, went well until a half-hour into the flight, a crucial dress rehearsal before launching astronauts next year. The Starliner _ empty except…
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has defended his controversial pardon of a man convicted of raping a child. Bevin told WHAS radio on Thursday that there was no physical evidence of an assault. Former Kentucky Medical Examiner Dr. George Nichols criticized the comments as being factually inaccurate. Nichols tells the Courier Journal newspaper that Bevin doesn’t…
