All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2017 // Harvey spread its misery across the Deep South as flooded creeks drove people from their homes in Tennessee and Kentucky and an apparent tornado damaged homes and toppled trees in a rural area of northwest Alabama.More...
Aug 31 2017 // Officials in two Kentucky counties have voted to hire attorneys to file lawsuits against wholesale drug distributors to help pay for the costs of combating the opioid epidemic.The Kentucky Enquirer reports Boone and Kenton...
Aug 23 2017 // Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have filed suit in federal court against opioid distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug epidemic in the state. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the lawsuit...
Aug 21 2017 // A series of accidents involving semi-trucks on the interstate has prompted a review from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.The Courier-Journal reports the agency will review ramps and roadways following accidents in...
Aug 8 2017 // Ray Hatfield Jr. was six months into his latest coal job when he was crushed to death in a Kentucky mine.Hatfield, a 23-year industry veteran, was cleaning a conveyor belt that shuttled coal to the surface of the...
Aug 4 2017 // A four-star Kentucky hotel has discovered a data breach threatening guests’ credit card information. News outlets report The Galt House hotel in Louisville said last month that an internal investigation found malware...
Jul 27 2017 // Heavy rains that pounded parts of West Virginia and Kentucky last weekend left one person dead and two people missing, authorities said Monday.In West Virginia, Ohio County Emergency Management Agency Director Lou Vargo...
Jul 21 2017 // Federal regulators say an accident that killed a coal miner in Pike County happened because a conveyor belt didn’t have adequate safety guards. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the U.S. Mine Safety and Health...
Jul 20 2017 // A Kentucky attorney is facing charges in federal court that he defrauded clients out of their insurance settlements for $550,000.The U.S. Attorney’s office in Louisville says James Grant King allegedly committed...
Jul 13 2017 // A Kentucky county’s largest private employer has been fined $21,000 following the deaths of two employees in unrelated accidents last October. The State Journal obtained files through an open-records request that...
Jul 11 2017 // Kathy Bartlett watched helplessly this spring as Kentucky lawmakers cut back on mine safety inspections and replaced them with coaching sessions on miners’ safety habits.She knows more than most what’s at...
Jul 6 2017 // A Kentucky pharmacist convicted of illegally distributing hundreds of thousands of prescription pain pills has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington said in a news...
Jun 27 2017 // A former teacher and volleyball coach is receiving a $500,000 settlement in a lawsuit against a Kentucky school district where she said she became the victim of a retaliation campaign for advocating for equal treatment of...
Jun 21 2017 // The Kentucky Supreme Court in Hollaway v. Direct General Ins. Co. Mississippi Inc., 497 S.W. 3d 733 (Ky. 2016), recently affirmed summary judgment that was granted in favor of the insurance company, finding that the...
Jun 8 2017 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Kentucky-based food distributor has issued a recall on more than 22,000 pounds of ground beef and other beef products due to possible E. coli bacteria contamination. USDA’s...
Jun 5 2017 // The United States Supreme Court says a Kentucky nursing home can require the families of two former residents to pursue claims against the home outside of court. The justices ruled 7-1 last month that the home could...
May 17 2017 // The United States Supreme Court says a Kentucky nursing home can require the families of two former residents to pursue claims against the home outside of court. The justice ruled 7-1 on Monday that the home could enforce...
May 15 2017 // Nancy G. Atkins has been appointed Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (KYDOI), in the wake of Brian Maynard’s decision in April to vacate the post.Maynard stepped down as commissioner of KYDOI...
May 3 2017 // Nancy G. Atkins has been appointed Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (KYDOI), in the wake of Brian Maynard’s decision to vacate the post.Maynard stepped down as commissioner of KYDOI effective...
Apr 21 2017 // A former strip mine would be converted into a solar farm under a proposal announced Tuesday by an Appalachian coal company that says it wants to place hundreds of thousands of panels in the Kentucky mountains.The Berkeley...