All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2019 // Heavy rainfall and extensive flooding have prompted Kentucky’s Republican governor to declare a state of emergency. Gov. Matt Bevin issued the executive order on Monday. The governor’s office says the order...
Feb 25 2019 // Homes, highways, parks and bridges throughout the South were flooded or put out of commission Saturday, as the toll of days of drenching rains swelled waterways and pooled over saturated lands amid a threat of severe...
Feb 22 2019 // Kentucky’s bourbon industry teamed with leaders of Mothers Against Drunk Driving on Wednesday to promote legislation aimed at reducing drunken driving by increasing the use of a device that block vehicles from...
Feb 20 2019 // A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist...
Feb 20 2019 // Officials say traffic fatalities on Kentucky highways are down for the second year in a row.The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety that says preliminary figures show there were 722 highway fatalities in 2018, down from 782...
Feb 15 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin spoke about his support for legalizing medical marijuana in highly personal terms on Tuesday, telling a community forum that his teenage nephew died after fighting “a very hard battle with...
Feb 12 2019 // A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses veterinarians of falsifying the dates on X-rays of horse sold at public auction at the Keeneland racetrack.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the lawsuit was brought Tom Swearingen, a...
Feb 7 2019 // Kentucky authorities say a man has been killed in a workplace accident at the Toyota manufacturing plant in Georgetown. Scott County Coroner John Goble told news outlets that the man worked for Ryder and was trying to...
Feb 4 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act in December, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Jan 29 2019 // The families of victims of a Kentucky school shooting have filed separate civil lawsuits blaming the suspect’s parents for failing to secure a handgun used in the attack.The lawsuits say the mother and stepfather of...
Jan 29 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (PPCI) has entered the Kentucky commercial auto market as an admitted carrier specializing in insurance products for distressed and substandard risks. PPCI offers the capacity...
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 24 2019 // The estate of a girl killed and three other students wounded in a shooting at a Kentucky high school have filed suit against the school district and school officials, the teenage suspect and his mother and stepfather.The...
Jan 17 2019 // Authorities say a distillery employee in Kentucky died after falling from a suspended walkway at the facility.The Daviess County coroner’s office said Tuesday that an autopsy revealed 44-year-old Dennis Layman of...
Jan 16 2019 // The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down last month Kentucky’s Medical Review Panels Act, which was enacted by the General Assembly in 2017, returning the process of reviewing medical malpractice claims back to the...
Jan 14 2019 // The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says coal-mining related deaths have reached a record low in Kentucky where a single miner died last year. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the agency said Jan. 8 that...
Jan 7 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 2 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Brenda Collins as a member of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission. Collins, of Alvaton, is a benefits distributor for Constellium-UACJ. She will represent...
Dec 31 2018 // The Coast Guard says a section of the Ohio River in Kentucky has re-opened after a tugboat and coal barge accident forced its closing.Coast Guard officials say a towing vessel was pushing 15 loaded coal barges when it hit...
Dec 12 2018 // The University of Kentucky has settled a lawsuit filed by a former public health dentist who said he was fired from the school for publicly criticizing Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to overhaul the state’s...