All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a damage waiver signed by a parent at a trampoline park does not protect the park from liability in the case of an injured child.The Courier Journal reports that the court said...
Jun 24 2019 // Kentucky distillery says efforts are underway to recover thousands of barrels of bourbon at a massive storage warehouse that partially collapsed during a thunderstorm.O.Z. Tyler Distillery in Owensboro said a section of...
Jun 19 2019 // Part of a bourbon warehouse in western Kentucky collapsed during a thunderstorm.News outlets report the partial collapse of the O.Z. Tyler Distillery rickhouse was reported early Monday. Master Distiller Jacob Call says...
Jun 18 2019 // Former Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak, who stepped down as the head of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance Commissioner last month, will join the global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A.,...
May 28 2019 // In the Bible, the ark survived an epic flood. Yet the owners of Kentucky’s Noah’s ark attraction are demanding their insurance company bail them out after heavy rains caused nearly $1 million in property...
May 22 2019 // A large fire has damaged a Lake Cumberland marina in southern Kentucky.News outlets report the fire at Conley Bottom Resort in Monticello started around 2 a.m. Monday. Firefighters say no one was injured. Marina co-owner...
May 6 2019 // McKesson Corp.’s settlement of an opioid lawsuit with West Virginia — the state with the highest U.S. rate of drug-overdose deaths — may encourage other states to seek quick cash to cope with the rising...
Apr 23 2019 // The governing board of Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance has recommended that its chief executive take a pay cut and lose his long-term job contract in favor of year-to-year probation.The Lexington Herald-Leader...
Apr 1 2019 // Kentucky state Rep. Ken Upchurch says he doubts he will ever see an electric scooter in his rural district on the state’s southern border, but he was happy to help when a lobbyist for Bird Rides Inc. asked him to...
Mar 25 2019 // Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear said on Thursday he had launched an investigation into allegations that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) had overcharged state health insurance programs for drugs and discriminated...
Mar 22 2019 // The Trump administration and coal industry allies are insisting that a federal black lung trust fund will continue to pay benefits to sick miners despite a drastic cut in funding.But the expected shortfalls will be covered...
Mar 20 2019 // The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a $21.7 million judgment against a helicopter company regarding a crash that killed three people. Three people died in June 2013 when an air ambulance crashed as it was...
Mar 18 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed at least six tornados hit Alabama on Thursday.The National Weather Service in Birmingham on Saturday posted ongoing damage survey reports. The number of confirmed tornados could...
Mar 13 2019 // A Kentucky teenager sued CNN on Tuesday for defamation, saying the cable network falsely conveyed to viewers that he was the “face of an unruly hate mob” confronting a Native American activist at the Lincoln...
Mar 12 2019 // A feud between Kentucky’s top two elected officials – and potential adversaries in this year’s governor’s race – spilled over into the state Supreme Court on Thursday as lawyers argued about who...
Mar 11 2019 // When Tom Gerrein left for Mass on Easter Sunday in 2010, he had a flat backyard.When he returned home, he did not. Tom and his wife, Kathy, walked behind their house in Bellevue, Kentucky, and there it was. A landslide had...
Mar 11 2019 // Prospects for a bill supported by bourbon producers and Mothers Against Drunk Driving improved Wednesday when Kentucky lawmakers reversed course to advance the proposal aimed at increasing the use of a device that blocks a...
Mar 8 2019 // Roughly 120,000 gallons (454,000 liters) of would-be bourbon have spilled at a Kentucky distillery.News outlets report two people were injured in the fermented mash spill Tuesday at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown,...
Mar 8 2019 // A Kentucky zoo has closed while engineers study a newly discovered sinkhole nearly as large as a football field.Louisville Zoo spokeswoman Kyle Shepherd told news outlets the sinkhole was found Wednesday in an undeveloped...
Mar 7 2019 // Santa Anita racetrack in California has canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses in the last two months.Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns...