LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former press secretary has made a pitch for Gov. Matt Bevin’s reelection campaign during a visit to Kentucky’s largest city. Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised Bevin for staking out strong stands despite taking “a lot of heat.” Sanders and conservative U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows appeared with Bevin at a campaign event Monday in Louisville….
FRANKLIN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky racetrack plans to start construction soon on the first phase of an expansion and renovation project. Kentucky Downs in southern Kentucky will begin the first of three phases in the coming weeks, investing approximately $25 million to add 18,000 square feet. A track statement says that the new building will feature more gambling and…
WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — Daniel Boone National Forest officials say multiple fires have burned hundreds of acres there, with almost all of the fires caused by people. WTVQ-TV in Lexington reports three crews from Puerto Rico have volunteered to restore what they can in the forest. Officials want to clean up damage from fires before dry weather returns. The volunteers…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Health officials have confirmed two cases of whooping cough at Kentucky schools. Lexington-Fayette County health officials said Friday that the latest case of the highly contagious respiratory disease whose medical name is pertussis was reported at Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports it’s the second case of pertussis discovered in the Fayette…
CHESTER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have identified a burned body found in a South Carolina ditch as that of a Kentucky woman. News outlets report the sheriff’s office of Chester County, South Carolina, identified the woman as 31-year-old Melissa I. Whitis, of Frankfort. Authorities didn’t immediately release her cause of death. A sheriff’s office statement released last week says Whitis’…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman has pleaded not guilty to complicity to murder charges in the slaying of a man killed in a Frankfort parking garage. The State Journal reports 39-year-old Nena M. Washington also pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges Friday in Franklin County Circuit Court. She is the second person charged in the Sept. 4…
NEW YORK (AP) — Taco Bell restaurants in some states are asking customers to try chicken or steak in their burritos after quality concerns pushed it to stop serving seasoned beef temporarily. The company said Saturday that it told affected restaurants to stop serving seasoned beef it as it replenishes supplies. The company says the beef didn’t meet its quality…
CORBIN, Ky. (AP) — Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Ulis Claud Steely came home for the first time in more than 78 years. When the sailor first left home in 1934, it was with Annapolis aspirations. His dad, the Rev. Edward Steely of Poplar Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Corbin, signed his enlistment papers in Lexington when Ulis was just 17….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky county judge-executive has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $38,000 in state grant money. A statement from Attorney General Andy Beshear says 57-year-old Wallace Taylor accepted a deal Friday and pleaded guilty to one count of abuse of public trust under $10,000, a Class D felony. News outlets report Taylor served as Estill…
EMINENCE, Ky. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Kentucky say a man being sought after a slaying and kidnapping has been taken into custody. Shelby County Sheriff Mark Moore told news outlets that 37-year-old Terry Whitehouse was located near a wooded area in Henry County Friday afternoon. His 34-year-old wife, Melinda, was found safe. His mother-in-law had been released a…
