BENTON, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a Kentucky teenager charged with fatally shooting two classmates and wounding 14 others at school filed a motion to suppress his statements to investigators. The Louisville Courier Journal reports Gabriel R. Parker’s attorneys say his statements weren’t voluntary, violated his self-incrimination privileges and his right to counsel. The motion says investigators didn’t obtain a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Matt Bevin has formally set the agenda for a special legislative session that begins Friday. The lone issue in his formal call on Thursday is pension relief for regional universities and quasi-governmental agencies strapped by surging retirement costs. The governor has spent weeks building support for a proposal to cushion the regional universities and quasi-public…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials are reporting the first statewide drop in drug overdose deaths since 2013. A report issued Thursday says 1,333 people died from drug overdoses in 2018, down from a record 1,566 deaths the prior year. The decline follows years of steady increases in the death toll, driven mostly by surges in opioid abuse, heroin and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Six homeless agencies in Louisville, Kentucky, have received a combined $3.4 million in federal funding to care for homeless youth. A Louisville’s Coalition for the Homeless statement says funding comes from a federal Housing and Urban Development program aimed at ending youth homelessness. The program includes help for unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth, where no…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republican officials say the national press secretary for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign will attend a GOP dinner next month in Lexington. The state GOP says Kayleigh McEnany will be a special guest at the annual Lincoln Dinner scheduled for Aug. 17. She previously worked as a political commentator at CNN prior to joining the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator has blocked a bipartisan bill that would ensure a victims’ compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul questions the bill’s 70-year time frame and notes that the federal government already faces a $22 trillion debt. He says any new spending such as the 9/11 bill…
CHICAGO (AP) — A Kentucky man has been sentenced to 5 ½ years in federal prison for selling a gun that was used to kill a 15-year-old Chicago boy. Investigators said Christopher Henderson of Louisville bought firearms in Kentucky and resold them at a big profit in Chicago. He pleaded guilty to dealing guns without a license. Xavier Soto was…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican governor says President Donald Trump is “absolutely not” a racist, but he sidestepped questions about the president’s recent tweet that said four congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries from which they came. Gov. Matt Bevin was asked by reporters about the explosive tweet after appearing at a…
(Credit: Pixabay)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police sergeant testified that a man accused of terroristic threatening owned ammunition that could be considered military grade. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Tuesday began the second day of Timothy Felker’s trial. He’s accused of saying he would “shoot up” his school. Lexington police Sgt. Daniel Burnett testified that Felker’s ammunition had a “full…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Democratic challenger Andy Beshear have clashed on education and health care policies during a forum before Kentucky’s most influential agricultural group. Speaking at Kentucky Farm Bureau headquarters in Louisville, Beshear said Wednesday that a push to bring charter schools to Kentucky will hurt public education. Beshear says charter schools will divert…
