All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2018 // Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky are increasing despite a drop in opioid prescriptions and heroin use. A new report from the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says 1,565 people died from drug overdoses in 2017....
Aug 13 2018 // The collapse of a Kentucky distillery’s warehouse last month has crews still cleaning up and trying to salvage roughly 18,000 barrels of aging bourbon. News outlets reported Wednesday the Barton 1792 Distillery in...
Aug 10 2018 // After Ezra Claycomb was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy, his mother considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. But in 2017, Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring...
Aug 9 2018 // A Kentucky panel established to review medical malpractice claims before lawsuits can be filed is severely backlogged. The Courier Journal obtained records through the Kentucky Open Records act that show only 11 percent of...
Aug 8 2018 // Louisville officials have settled a lawsuit over a 2017 police shooting for $1.8 million. The Louisville Courier Journal reports the city’s chief financial officer, Daniel Frockt, announced that the lawsuit filed by...
Jul 30 2018 // The food court illness that sickened 350 people in Kentucky has been identified as norovirus. Citing a Lexington-Fayette County Health Department release, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that test results from those...
Jul 24 2018 // The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes during severe storms in Kentucky that toppled trees and power lines. The weather service in Louisville says storms on Friday produced an EF-1 tornado in Hart County...
Jul 20 2018 // The company’s website claimed its product would “enable patients to stay in the workplace, enjoy interaction with family and friends and remain a member of society.”But Kentucky’s Attorney General...
Jul 16 2018 // Eight former supervisors and safety officers at a Kentucky coal company were indicted on federal charges that they rigged dust monitoring in underground mines, forcing miners to work in the kind of dirty conditions that...
Jul 10 2018 // Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap last week after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down.The remainder of...
Jul 3 2018 // The pickings have gotten slimmer when Mike Bowling needs to hire someone for his convenience stores in London and Manchester, where he also has a tobacco store.“This is the hardest I’ve ever seen getting...
Jun 27 2018 // A Kentucky distillery owner is facing a state fine after one of its whiskey warehouses collapsed.Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet spokesman John Mura told news media outlets that distillery owner Sazerac will be...
Jun 26 2018 // Thousands of whiskey barrels crashed into a massive heap Friday when a large section of a decades-old storage warehouse collapsed at a distillery in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country.The damaged warehouse at the Barton...
Jun 18 2018 // Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general has filed a sixth lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company for deceptive marketing of opioid-based painkillers.Andy Beshear announced on Thursday that he has filed a lawsuit...
Jun 7 2018 // Operators of zip lines, climbing walls and similar devices must register them with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and make sure they comply with state law by July 1. A new law was passed in 2016 directing the...
Jun 5 2018 // Officials at a Kentucky amusement park say a roller coaster will remain closed until an investigation is complete into the collision of two of its cars. News outlets quote Kentucky Kingdom officials as saying one car on...
Jun 4 2018 // Authorities say a propane torch set off the blast that damaged a UPS freight hub in Kentucky’s second-largest city and sent multiple people to the hospital. Lexington fire investigator Maj. Robert King tells news...
Jun 1 2018 // As a young man, Barry Shrewsbury dug coal in the West Virginia mines and spent his time off hunting and fishing in the rolling hills.Now, at 62, he struggles to breathe and accomplish basic tasks such as shopping and...
May 31 2018 // Two United Parcel Service Inc employees were injured in an explosion on Wednesday that caused significant damage to one of the package delivery company’s freight facilities in Lexington, Kentucky, a UPS spokesman...
Apr 30 2018 // Two former coal miners in Kentucky who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease were awarded $67.5 million in damages in their civil lawsuit.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that a...