LEBANON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky are investigating the death of a toddler who drowned in a pond. News outlets report 15-month-old Lincoln Spalding was pronounced dead at a hospital on Tuesday. Kentucky State Police say the child had been reported missing from a residential daycare in Lebanon. No charges have been filed. The investigation is ongoing.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A group of Kentucky hospitals is suing dozens of opioid makers and distributors saying the companies misrepresented the benefits and dangers of the painkiller. The complaint filed in Warren County Circuit Court in south-central Kentucky includes hospitals in Bowling Green, Pikeville, Madisonville and several county hospitals. The civil suit, filed late last month, alleges the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The founder of Papa John’s has donated $1 million to a historically black college in Kentucky after more than a year of backlash for his use of a racial slur. News outlets report John Schnatter announced the donation Wednesday at Simmons College of Kentucky. The college’s president, the Rev. Kevin Cosby, and its board of trustees…
ANMOORE, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say a missing Kentucky girl has been found in West Virginia and a man has been charged sexually assaulting her. The Harrison County Sheriff’s Department says deputies found the girl walking along a highway in Anmoore on Wednesday morning. As deputies were getting her story, they noticed a man walking away from the scene and…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky say a man has been arrested for fatally shooting a man and his dog in a parking garage. News outlets report 40-year-old Antonio Bolling was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder in the death of 24-year-old Coty Lee Brumback. Frankfort police Capt. Dustin Bowman says Brumback was found suffering from gunshot wounds on…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky will receive a big infusion of federal funds to reinforce efforts to combat the state’s addiction woes from the opioid epidemic. The assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services comes a few weeks after Kentucky officials reported the first statewide drop in drug overdose deaths since 2013. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking two women and faces up to almost 20 years in prison. The U.S. Justice Department said 41-year-old Cleoretta Allen of Louisville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to two counts of sex trafficking and one count of interstate transportation for prostitution. Prosecutors said Allen used violence, threats,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Labor Cabinet has sent letters to coal and construction companies that might be in violation of a state law that requires a bond to cover employee wages. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that over the last few weeks, the cabinet wrote to 89 companies that have failed to pay the bond. Last week, Attorney General…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andy Beshear is proposing a $2,000 across-the-board pay raise for Kentucky’s teachers. Beshear rolled out his plan Wednesday in an effort to increase the number of teachers. He says the state should also create a student loan forgiveness program to reward educators who stay in Kentucky to teach. Beshear, the state’s attorney general,…
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of Kentucky investors has sued two executives of a battery manufacturer that suspended plans to build a $372 million facility and hire 875 workers in the heart of Appalachia. The Lexington Herald-Leader cited court filings in reporting that that Pikeville EB Investors LLC says Enerblu executives made deliberate misrepresentations about the viability of the…
