(Credit: Pixabay)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A former executive at an oil and natural gas company in Kentucky has been sentenced to five years and five months in federal prison for embezzlement. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Franklin Fletcher was sentenced to prison Monday for stealing more than $374,000 from NYTIS Exploration between 2012 and 2018. Fletcher abused the company’s payroll system…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky transportation officials say two meetings will be held this month about the replacement of the U.S. 51 Ohio River bridge between the western Kentucky town of Wickliffe and Cairo, Illinois. A statement from the Kentucky Transportation Department says meetings will update the public on the project and gather comments to assist with decision-making as progress…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky say a woman with a history of drunken driving convictions caused a fiery three-vehicle crash that killed three people. News outlets report 42-year-old Tammy Marie Bevins Rodriguez was arrested Wednesday and charged with driving under the influence and driving without a license. Police in Fayette and Clark counties say additional charges are pending….
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,…
