(AP) ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. – Authorities in Kentucky have charged 5 Illinois women in a $25,000 shoplifting scheme they say stretches from Illinois to Georgia. News outlets report each woman is charged with offenses including engaging in organized crime. Elizabethtown police say the women were arrested early Tuesday after two of them stole more than $1,500 worth of items from a…
(AP) LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has reported its first death of the flu season. Louisville health officials say the victim who died Dec. 7 was an elderly person who had not been vaccinated and had underlying medical conditions. Kentucky health officials say the current flu season runs from September to May 2020. Louisville has seen a…
(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…
