VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon that leaked from a fire that destroyed a Jim Beam barrel warehouse in Kentucky is making its way to the Ohio River. State environmental officials say they’re assessing wildlife impacts and doing fish kill counts along the waterways near the Woodford County facility. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says in a release on social…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hemp will be the theme at a dinner serving as a fundraiser to benefit Farmington Historic Plantation and a hemp heritage alliance. As hemp enters a new era as a legal agricultural commodity, the event is planned for Thursday evening at Farmington in Louisville. Guests will be served a meal prepared with hemp products by Adam…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs says its new gaming venue is already paying dividends for horsemen racing at the Louisville track. Track officials say Churchill paid a record $32.2 million in prize money to horsemen during its recently ended spring meet. It was up nearly 45% from the amount paid to horsemen during last year’s spring meet. Churchill officials…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky police say a woman was intoxicated when she crashed into a vehicle, killing a 10-year-old girl. News outlets report 24-year-old Sequoyah Collins was charged Friday with driving under the influence. Lexington police Lt. Andrew Daugherty says Collins was speeding early Friday morning when she ran a red light and struck a car occupied by two…
Michael B. Terry (Photo credit: Fayette County Detention Center)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky say a Lexington police officer was assaulted by a man at a hospital emergency room. Lexington police spokeswoman Brenna Angel says in a news release the officer suffered significant injuries in Sunday’s attack at St. Joseph East Hospital in Lexington. Angel says 29-year-old Michael B….
MADISON, Ind. (AP) — The driver of a vintage hydroplane has died in testing for the Madison Regatta hydroplane races on the Ohio River. Jefferson County Coroner Rodney Nay says Rick Beatty of Dayton, Ohio, was running test laps on the Ohio River when he hit a wake and was ejected from the open cockpit of the boat Saturday. Nay…
(Photo courtesy of WKYT)MT. STERLING, Ky. (AP) — Montgomery County authorities are looking for the person killed a family’s pet alpaca. Lori Coffey tells WKYT-TV that she saw Ringo lying down and thought he had fallen. When they tried to move him, they saw he had been shot. Coffey says Ringo came into their lives after he stowed away on…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A group formed by the legislature to study the feasibility of privatizing foster care says Kentucky should focus on strengthening the system it already has. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the study group’s 26-page report was published Friday. It urges state officials to remember that privatization “is not a ‘silver-bullet.’” The report says the private sector is…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A legal fight to reveal what kind of surveillance cameras Kentucky’s second-largest city has and how they’re used will return to Fayette Circuit Court after an order to release the information was reversed on appeal. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that a circuit judge ordered last year that the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government should release all documents…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Details about the nursing home death of a retired Kentucky judge were revealed in an anonymous letter sent to his grieving wife weeks after his burial. The Courier Journal reports the letter signed “concerned citizen” said the Masonic Homes of Kentucky never gave Dan Schneider his prescribed antibiotics. It also said nursing staff knew about the…
