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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Louisville Zoo is expecting the birth of a 200-pound (90 kilogram) baby. The Courier Journal reports , staff is on 24-hour watch since a 33-year-old African elephant there entered her birthing window. Elephants have a long gestation period, and Mikki has been pregnant since October 2017. The zoo announced the pregnancy in March 2018. Now,…
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Federal authorities say an Ohio man has pleaded guilty in Kentucky to committing bank and wire fraud in several states. FBI officials said in a news release Tuesday that 47-year-old Anthony McQuaid’s schemes caused businesses and individuals in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to lose more than $4.6 million between November 2014 and June 2018….
CLAY CITY, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say an off-duty deputy has shot and killed a driver who had escaped authorities during an earlier chase. Trooper Scott Ferrell tells WKYT-TV that Powell County deputies were searching for the vehicle involved in the chase Tuesday night when the off-duty deputy found it outside Clay City. He says the deputy approached…
BURGIN, Ky. (AP) — Officials have announced a new aftercare program at a Kentucky prison meant to help inmates in addiction recovery avoid relapse. Kentucky Justice Secretary John Tilley says the program will provide a new system of support, mentoring and peer accountability for those offenders. Participants in the program will live together in a dormitory located at Northpoint Training…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky police say a man suspected of raping a 13-year-old child was arrested after trying to get away in a stolen car. News outlets report 43-year-old Terrance Suter was caught and arrested Saturday after he lost control of the car and crashed into a wall. Lexington Police Spokeswoman Brenna Angel says officers were looking for Suter…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky police officer has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing two minors in the Louisville department’s now defunct youth program. The Courier Journal reports Kenneth Betts pleaded guilty in state court Monday to third-degree sodomy and admitted to sexually abusing the minors while he worked as a program adviser. His…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McGrath, whose campaign announcement video in her House race showcased the viral power of social media to raise money and national profile, said Tuesday…
