(Photo credit: cpe.ky.gov)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for the federal Department of Education’s assistant secretary of postsecondary education. The Courier Journal reports Bob King was confirmed to the role this week, nearly a year after being nominated. King previously was the president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, which coordinates the state’s…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic leaders in the Kentucky House are making a play for bipartisanship with new state pension repair proposals. House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins said Thursday that Democrats are acting “in good faith” with two proposals to try “to work a way forward.” Adkins says leaders in the Republican-led House, including Speaker David Osborne, have met with…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A federal agent says in a court affidavit that a man accidentally shot himself in the leg while fleeing police in Kentucky. News outlets report the affidavit by a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the man ran during a traffic stop in Lexington. A Lexington police officer began chasing…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man fatally shot on a Tennessee basketball court has been identified as a 101st Airborne Division soldier stationed at Fort Campbell. A Fort Campbell spokesperson told news outlets 23-year-old Kendrick Grayer was a fire control specialist assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team. He died on July 4. The Texas-native joined the Army in 2014 and…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky police say an officer shot and wounded a 23-year-old man during a foot chase after a traffic stop. The Lexington Herald-Leader says the Lexington officer was responding to a report of a burglary when he made the traffic stop Wednesday. Police Chief Lawrence Weathers says when the officer approached the car, the man jumped out…
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana teenager has been charged with murder in a tire shop shooting that left a fellow employee dead following an argument. Jeffersonville Police Lt. Isaac Parker says 19-year-old Bobby Powell of Jeffersonville was arrested soon after the shooting Tuesday morning at Big O Tires. He was in custody. It wasn’t clear whether he has…
(Photo courtesy of www.landbetweenthelakes.us)GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) — Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area says a popular campground that was closed after a storm last month has been reopened. The park said in a statement that the June 21 storm damaged Energy Lake Campground, which was near capacity. U.S. Forest Service staff evacuated the area as trees and debris…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Department for Libraries and Archives is awarding about a half million dollars in grants for the preservation and management of local government records. Clerk offices in 20 counties received grants ranging from $6,500 in Letcher County to nearly $77,000 in Washington County as part of the Local Records Program. The 20 grants total $449,656 for…
Photo credit: AmyMcGrath.comLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Senate campaign for Amy McGrath says she raised over $2.5 million within 24 hours of announcing her run against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to a Wednesday news release, donations to the Marine combat aviator came in the form of 69,188 individual contributions. The campaign says all of the money was…
Federal investigators say a Kentucky pilot who died along with three passengers in a 2017 plane crash likely became disoriented in bad weather before the aircraft went down. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board says pilot Scott T. Foster wasn’t rated to fly by instruments alone and entered an area where the weather conditions would have required flying…
