(Credit: Pixabay)FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker who serves as a committee chairman has resigned, citing his belief in term limits. Republican state Rep. Tim Moore submitted his resignation in a letter to Gov. Matt Bevin. The letter says his resignation took effect Tuesday. Moore represented a House district covering Grayson County and part of Hardin County. Moore’s letter…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says most people would think the attack he suffered from a former neighbor should be punished by more than 30 days in prison. The Kentucky Republican went on WLAP radio Tuesday to comment on a federal appeals court’s decision vacating the sentence given to his attacker, Rene Boucher. The court on Monday…
Kentucky linebacker Josh Paschal, who missed most of last season while being treated for skin cancer, is one of the first three nominees for college football’s comeback player of the year award. Also nominated were Troy quarterback Kaleb Barker, who is returning from knee surgery, and Southern California defensive back Isaiah Pola-Mao, who has missed most of the last two…
Tanner Wayne RasnakeHUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Kentucky man is accused of threatening to kill the cheerleading team of a West Virginia University, along with a specific female victim and her family. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports 18-year-old Tanner Wayne Rasnake, of Louisa, was booked Monday into a West Virginia jail on a felony charge of threats of terroristic acts. Court…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials say federal, state and local teams are trying to determine whether there are any public health impacts from a natural gas pipeline explosion last month. The pipeline ruptured Aug. 1, causing a massive explosion in Lincoln County that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The remains of a Kentucky soldier who died in Germany during World War II have been identified and will be returned home. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Monday that Army Pfc. Jacob W. Givens was officially accounted for in June. Givens was a native of Mount Sterling and was 30 when he died. A…
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for soliciting $15,000 in donations while pretending to have cancer. WXIX-TV reports Jessica Krecskay also was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation and ordered to repay the donations. Krecskay was indicted in February on a theft by deception charge. Jessica Lunsford says she worked with…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday vacated what it called a “well-below-guidelines” prison sentence for the man who tackled U.S. Sen. Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home, ordering a resentencing for the attack that broke the lawmaker’s ribs. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it found “no compelling justification” for…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Public education grabbed the spotlight in Kentucky’s race for governor on Monday as Democratic nominee Andy Beshear and Republican incumbent Matt Bevin exchanged caustic words over whether the state’s schools are adequately funded. Beshear initiated the exchange by accusing Bevin in a new TV ad of supporting budget cuts that the Democratic challenger claimed could imperil…
(Photo Credit: Pixabay)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A colt by stakes winner Tapit has sold for $2.5 million to lead the opening session of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale. Godolphin paid the two highest prices on Monday, topped by its purchase of the half-brother of 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist. A release from the track adds that it is the highest amount…
