LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin says the state should not be taxing the retirement income of its military veterans. The governor says the proposal will be part of a broader bill that he’ll push to revamp Kentucky’s overall tax system if he wins re-election. Bevin made the comments Tuesday at a Louisville-area park, where he received…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky police say they’re investigating a rape that happened in a campus dorm. News outlets report a female student told university police that she was sexually assaulted by a male student sometime after midnight Sunday morning. A crime bulletin says the victim knew the person who attacked her. The investigation is ongoing. Police didn’t…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of former Louisville men’s basketball players have reached a confidential settlement of a lawsuit with the NCAA that did not restore the Cardinals’ vacated 2013 national championship and 2012 Final Four but retains the players’ statistics and honors “without an asterisk.” The players sued the governing body in July 2018 seeking restoration of the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have issued a public health warning that urges people who use vaping products to stop in the face of a national outbreak of severe lung injuries. A statement from the Louisville health department says there are 805 cases of lung illness in 46 states and one territory. Kentucky has 20 cases…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky zoo has spent thousands on a sinkhole about as wide as a football field, but still hasn’t settled on a long-term plan for the problem. Louisville Zoo Director John Walczak tells the Courier Journal the zoo is weighing how to best handle the sinkhole, which opened in March in an undeveloped zoo section. Walczak…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A man convicted of leaking Singapore’s HIV patient database as part of an alleged extortion attempt has been sentenced to two years in prison in Kentucky. Singapore’s health ministry accused Mikhy Farrera-Brochez of leaking a database of 14,200 people infected with HIV. FBI agents found Farrera-Brochez in Kentucky earlier this year after his mother had kicked…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Division of Water and Department for Public Health are issuing a public health advisory for harmful algal bloom along the Ohio River. The advisory is for people using the waters for recreation. The advisory area is from the McAlpine Dam near Louisville to the Greenup Dam near Greenup in northeastern Kentucky. State officials also issued…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet fired in a shooting outside her Kentucky home. Louisville Metro police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley tells WDRB-TV that the toddler was wounded late Thursday in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville. It’s unclear where the girl was grazed with the bullet; She was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky education officials are seeking feedback on the state’s new reading and math competency requirements for high school graduation. A statement from the Education Department says Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis and staff are holding four town hall forums, an online forum and will also take electronic feedback from those who can’t attend. The first forum was…
(Credit: Pixabay)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s chief justice has removed a judge from hearing a lawsuit challenging the authority of Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration to investigate teacher protests. Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. on Friday disqualified circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd from presiding over the case brought by Bevin’s rival, Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear. Beshear is challenging Bevin…
