All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 19 2018 // Kentucky has recorded a decrease in highway fatalities for the first time since 2013. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety says initial numbers show 770 highway-related deaths in...
Jan 17 2018 // Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Kentucky touted its potential as a viable alternative to ease the state’s addiction woes from opioid painkillers.Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes joined other...
Jan 16 2018 // James A. Jones saw enough cars stranded along the icy highway to know it was time to pull over as a winter storm blasted parts of Tennessee and Kentucky with sleet, freezing rain and snow Friday.Jones counted 25 cars stuck...
Jan 11 2018 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance’s (DOI) Consumer Protection Division returned over $15 million to Kentucky consumers during 2017, the department said in a statement.Consumers received over $10.5 million in...
Jan 3 2018 // The Kentucky Labor Cabinet says workplaces in Kentucky have recorded the lowest rate of nonfatal incidents in state history.The most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is for 2016. It says...
Dec 12 2017 // Authorities are investigating the death of a man at a Ford truck plant in Kentucky.Media outlets report that police responded to Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville just before 1 a.m. Saturday. Officers found...
Dec 11 2017 // Officials say 41 students in Kentucky have been injured in a crash involving three school buses. Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Daniel Kemp told news outlets the crash happened Thursday morning on a highway in...
Dec 1 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths.The new Louisville field office will have a special...
Nov 22 2017 // The National Weather Service says two people were hurt in two moderate tornados in Kentucky. The weather service says both tornados touched down Saturday and were rated EF-1. The first happened shortly before 3:30 p.m. CST...
Nov 13 2017 // A Kentucky city is suing more than a dozen drug manufacturers and distributors to recoup the escalating cost of dealing with drug addiction.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the city of Lexington filed a federal lawsuit...
Nov 8 2017 // Kentucky accused units of Endo International Plc on Monday of contributing to drug overdoses and an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing its painkiller Opana ER, the latest lawsuit by state or local governments against...
Nov 1 2017 // A fire has significantly damaged the emergency dispatch and ambulance services building in a Kentucky county.Elliott County Emergency Management director Jim Skaggs tells news outlets the fire started on Monday sometime...
Oct 13 2017 // A crop insurance agent in Kentucky is facing federal charges alleging she defrauded taxpayers of $169,000 by helping farmers inflate tobacco crop losses and collect insurance money and then helping them sell their burley...
Oct 4 2017 // R-T Specialty, LLC (a subsidiary of Ryan Specialty Group, LLC) has opened a new office in Louisville, Ky. This office is led by Brian Houghlin and Chris Beckmann.Houghlin has 30 years of experience in the management...
Oct 2 2017 // A Kentucky jury has awarded $21.7 million to the families of three people who died in a June 2013 medical helicopter crash.A jury in Clay County decided the award Thursday after a three-week trial and five hours of...
Sep 25 2017 // Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general says he has hired four law firms to investigate and potentially sue several makers and marketers of opioid-based painkillers that have spurred a wave addiction across...
Sep 22 2017 // Kentucky’s ban on medical marijuana has survived an initial test in court, with a judge ruling Wednesday that the state has a good reason to “curtail citizens’ possession of a narcotic, hallucinogenic...
Sep 20 2017 // The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a small earthquake in southeastern Illinois was felt across parts of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.The USGS says the preliminary 3.8-magnitude earthquake occurred at 6:47 a.m....
Sep 15 2017 // A Kentucky woman was sickened by Legionnaires’ disease after staying at a hotel near the Tennessee home of famed singer Elvis Presley and later died, and an autopsy says the pneumonia caused her death.The Commercial...
Sep 6 2017 // A fire chief and three other volunteer firefighters are facing arson charges in Kentucky.Kentucky State Police said in a news release Friday that the arson charges stem from a fire in an empty building in Crofton on Aug....