(AP) PARIS, Ky. – A Kentucky man is accused of robbing two banks of more than $8,000 by brandishing a toy gun. Paris police charged 35-year-old Cheikh Gueye with robbery and resisting arrest Wednesday. WKYT reports tellers at one of the banks told police the man slipped them a note demanding that they hand over money or he would kill…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed an executive order to restore voting rights for more than 140,000 nonviolent offenders who completed their sentences. The Democratic governor was surrounded by voting-rights supports as he signed the order Thursday. It fulfills a pledge he made during the campaign. Among those celebrating was Rynn Young of Louisville, who has never…
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin issued a slew of pardons on his way out of office. Bevin has granted relief to a convicted killer whose brother raised money for him and another man who was convicted of a grisly murder in eastern Kentucky. Bevin issued more than 400 pardons since election day. Among them was…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s education commissioner has submitted his resignation. The move hands new Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear what he wanted as he reshapes the top levels of the education system to reflect his distaste for charter schools. The state’s newly reorganized state school board accepted Wayne Lewis’ conditional resignation on Thursday at a special meeting. Beshear set Lewis’ removal…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The closing decade was ever-shifting in fashion. The most special moments of the decade among fashion editors had Rihanna and Beyonce top of mind as trendsetters, along with the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, and former first lady Michelle Obama. A senior fashion editor at Cosmopolitan says it might seem…
EASTVIEW, Ky. – Congregants entered two Kentucky churches Sunday morning to find their houses of God in disarray, with items missing or destroyed. News outlets report items stolen from the neighboring Eastview churches include bibles, church records and sacred items including crosses. One church’s shed had also been set on fire. State police are investigating and no arrests had been…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s newly reorganized state school board is preparing to meet for the first time Thursday. The agenda could include the possible removal of the state education commissioner. Gov. Andy Beshear disbanded the Kentucky Board of Education on his first day in office Tuesday. He then recreated the board with 11 new members. The new board scheduled a…
(Credit: Pixabay)FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s newest Supreme Court justice has been formally sworn in during a ceremony at the state Capitol. Justice Christopher Shea Nickell was elected in November to serve a district covering the state’s 24 westernmost counties. Chief Justice John D. Minton administered the oath of office during Nickell’s investiture ceremony Wednesday. Nickell said he was honored to…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – For nearly four years as attorney general, Andy Beshear filed a series of lawsuits accusing then-Gov. Matt Bevin of abusing his executive powers. Now Beshear is being sued by the people he ousted from the state school board on his first day as governor. The new Democratic governor wielded his executive authority Tuesday to reorganize the Kentucky…
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Tennessee woman has been indicted on multiple charges related to human trafficking after authorities accused her of coercing an 18-year-old into prostitution. Savannah Elizabeth Gribanow was indicted in Fayette County, Kentucky, on Monday. The 26-year-old was arrested on Nov. 25. Court records say Gribanow held the victim against her will, forced her into prostitution, supplied her…
