All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2017 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 30 2016 // Federal investigators have concluded that a worker crushed to death by a machine at a Kentucky coal mine earlier this year wasn’t wearing an emergency shut-off device, and that his managers had not provided a way to...
Dec 22 2016 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 22 2016 // A western Kentucky business owner will serve 90 days in jail for committing environmental violations during the demolition of the former Goodyear Tire plant in Madisonville. A release from the U.S. Attorney’s office...
Dec 21 2016 // New data show many more coal miners across Appalachia suffering from the most serious form of black lung disease than federal regulators previously reported.National Public Radio reported Friday that its investigation...
Dec 21 2016 // A spike in serious black-lung cases in eastern Kentucky indicates that a disease lawmakers hoped to eradicate decades ago continues to afflict miners. Citing a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report...
Nov 29 2016 // A Kentucky lawmaker is the new president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators.Rep. Steve Riggs of Louisville began his yearlong tenure this month during the group’s annual meeting. He has previously...
Nov 28 2016 // A Kentucky judge has cleared the way for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin to appoint six administrative law judges to help ease a backlog of workers’ compensation cases.The ruling by Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip...
Nov 18 2016 // Kentucky state health regulators said Monday they will seek millions of dollars in civil penalties against companies accused of bringing radioactive drilling waste into Kentucky to dump in Appalachian landfills.Penalties...
Nov 14 2016 // A wannabe weatherman was jailed for arson after admitting he started a wildfire to draw attention to his selfie videos on Facebook, his town’s police chief said Friday. Meanwhile, a Georgia sheriff appealed for help...
Nov 8 2016 // The Fraud Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) announced that it has increased the amount of court-ordered restitution payments this year by more than 800 percent. The increase—from $369,762 in 2015 to...
Nov 7 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
Nov 1 2016 // A federal jury has convicted a Kentucky doctor accused of performing unnecessary heart procedures on dozens of patients. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement that jurors returned a guilty verdict Thursday...
Oct 31 2016 // Lexington, Ky., officials say property thefts, especially those involving vehicles, are among the most frequently committed crimes in Kentucky’s second-largest city.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports more than 260...
Oct 26 2016 // Artwork showing Muhammad Ali in a classic pose, in white trunks and red boxing gloves, was stolen from an exhibit while it was open to the public at the Muhammad Ali Center. Surveillance cameras recorded the brazen theft,...
Oct 13 2016 // The Kentucky Labor Cabinet will release a monthly report on the amount of unpaid wages it collects and returns employees each month.A release from the cabinet says officials recouped $205,972.61 in wages in September. The...
Oct 12 2016 // The Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection says the state has finished cleaning up large amounts of arsenic in Ohio County.The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports that the agency spent the summer removing...
Oct 11 2016 // Kentucky State University is temporarily closing a residence hall after mold was found.The Frankfort school says in a news release that university officials were told last week that mold had been discovered in some rooms...
Oct 3 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
Sep 23 2016 // Some residents are suing a wood treatment company that once operated a site in rural Montgomery County where the state detected higher-than-normal arsenic levels.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Mary and John Sparks,...