LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky’s Cat Walk before football games will have a special guest each week this fall. The athletics department says offensive tackle and engineering student Luke Fortner and a team of engineers from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky worked for months to design and make a push cart vehicle. The vehicle will give a Kentucky…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Terry Wilson threw two touchdown passes, Asim Rose and Kavosiey Smoke each ran for TDs and Kentucky overcame Toledo to pull away 38-24 on Saturday in the season opener for both schools. The Wildcats rallied twice against the Rockets to enter the break tied at 14 before taking control in the second half. A third-quarter fumble…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky high school has implemented stricter rules at sporting events and the district may follow suit, after an unaccompanied younger student falsely shouted that someone had a gun at a football game. News outlets report Fayette County Public high school officials met Thursday to discuss applying firmer rules to future football games including no backpacks…
Bobby J. Blackburn (Photo credit: WYMT)PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Kentucky pastor accused of trying to organize a threesome with minors. The Courier Journal reports Bobby J. Blackburn was indicted Wednesday on charges of prohibited use of an electronic communication system to procure a minor to commit a sex offense. His lawyer, Stephen Owens, says…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say troopers are stepping up their enforcement efforts on the state’s roads through Labor Day weekend. Police say the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign focuses on removing impaired drivers. Troopers will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints statewide to enforce all traffic laws, with attention to seat belt and child restraints, vehicle…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration and lawmakers acted within their authority when rejecting Attorney General Andy Beshear’s contract hiring outside lawyers to assist in suing manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling — the latest in a series of legal clashes between Bevin and Beshear — comes amid their…
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. has campaigned for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s reelection in a county that supported his father during the last presidential election. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports President Donald Trump’s son told a sparse Pike County crowd Thursday that he understood eastern Kentucky’s historic alliance with Democrats but added “this is not your grandfather’s Democratic Party.”…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear says the state’s Labor Cabinet hasn’t secured the necessary bonds from coal companies that would cover wage payments to miners if their employer unexpectedly shuts down. Beshear, a Democrat running for governor, announced on Thursday that his office examined records of Kentucky companies that should be required to pay the bonds….
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky school official says a resource officer found a student with a loaded gun in his waistband after another student tipped off the principal. News outlets report the 15-year-old was taken into custody Wednesday after being disarmed by Officer Ben Martin. The student goes to Great Crossing High School in Georgetown. No injuries were reported….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a nonprofit mental health provider can’t use bankruptcy to escape its financial obligations to the state pension system. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the unanimous ruling on Thursday could help protect the financial viability of one of the country’s worst-funded public pension systems. Louisville mental health provider Centerstone owes an…
