LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Companies tied to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice have been ordered to pay $35 million in damages for defaulting on a mining contract. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the lawsuit stems from a 2005 deal in which Kentucky Fuel gained the right to mine coal in Breathitt County in exchange for royalties. The company, operated at the…
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A former Morehead State University employee is accused of defrauding the school of more than $167,000. News outlets report Sherri Ward was indicted last week on charges of fraudulent credit card use and second-degree forgery. She pleaded not guilty. She’s accused of forging a professor’s signature on Morehead State University Foundation fund transfers ranging from $500…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has started making his closing case for a second term in Kentucky. At the start of a daylong bus tour Friday, Bevin said Kentuckians are better off than they were four years ago. The governor pointed to job growth and surges in investments and exports of Kentucky products. Bevin is heading toward…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — The McCracken County Humane Society is struggling after taking in 65 dogs in two days. The Paducah Sun reports it started on Sunday with the report of a pit bull puppy in bad shape. The puppy later died, and on Monday 10 dogs, most of them pit bulls, were removed from the residence. One of them…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Government employees in Kentucky who sued over state investment decisions have taken their case to the state’s Supreme Court after a lower court said they lacked standing to file suit. The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Thursday. The fraud lawsuit was filed two years ago by a group of public workers. The Lexington Herald-Leader…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The University of Louisville Athletic Association will pay Papa John’s founder John Schnatter $9.5 million over 5½ years in a settlement to terminate the pizza chain’s naming rights to Cardinal Stadium. The school last year removed the Papa John’s name and logo from the 60,800-seat stadium amid fallout from a report that Schnatter used a racial…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s top elections official says absentee voting is open statewide ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes says all counties were required to open in-person absentee voting no later than Oct. 18. She says eligible voters who won’t be able to vote at the polls on Election Day can vote absentee…
(Credit: Pixabay)JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — An elected official of a Kentucky county has once again been indicted on a charge of abusing public trust. WYMT-TV reports Breathitt County Judge-Executive Jeff Noble also was indicted Wednesday on a charge of theft by unlawful taking. Court documents say Noble is accused of spending $986 in public funds to buy fuel for personal…
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — Coal miners who blocked train tracks in Kentucky demanding to get paid for the coal they mined will benefit from a federal deal with the bankrupt company. The Bristol Herald Courier reports Blackjewel LLC agreed to pay $5.47 million to mine workers in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Blackjewel attorney Stephen Lerner said Wednesday that payroll…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has laid out his top priorities if Kentucky voters give him a second term in next month’s election. Speaking to a gathering of county officials, Bevin vowed to shore up public pensions, modernize the state’s tax code, improve adoption and foster care systems and repair roads and bridges. Bevin says Kentucky is…
