All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2016 // Brian Maynard of Louisville was appointed commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance on Jan. 12.Gov. Matt Bevin, who took over in December, appointed Maynard by executive order. He is now a member of the Public...
Jan 31 2016 // A massive fire destroyed a 70-year-old beef cattle auction business in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, churning up a plume of thick, black smoke that darkened the skies for miles as the wind-whipped flames consumed several...
Jan 26 2016 // A massive winter storm that hit the Southeast and East Coast over the weekend set a snowfall record in West Virginia, caused tornadoes in Mississippi and stranded motorists on a cold highway in Kentucky overnight....
Jan 25 2016 // Millions of Americans started digging themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the East Coast to an icy standstill.New York and Baltimore began...
Jan 25 2016 // Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has notified federal authorities he plans to dismantle the state’s health insurance exchange. Bevin campaigned on a pledge to get rid of the exchange, known as kynect. It was...
Jan 22 2016 // States across the Southeast, including Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, were hit by extreme winter weather this week and forecasters say it isn’t finished yet. Another two feet of snow is still...
Jan 22 2016 // A coal miner in western Kentucky died after being pinned against a wall by a mobile digging machine in an underground mine, the first coal mining death in the state this year and the third nationally.The death prompted a...
Jan 20 2016 // Brian Maynard of Louisville was appointed commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance on Jan. 12. He takes over for Sharon P. Clark, who had been in the position since first being appointed in 2008.Republican Gov....
Jan 20 2016 // Citing the need to preserve remaining assets, the Kentucky Health Cooperative (KYHC) was placed in liquidation Jan. 15 at the request of the Kentucky Department of Insurance. The order was signed by Franklin Circuit Judge...
Jan 19 2016 // A lawsuit filed against a man who shot down a drone over his Hillview, Ky., home last summer seeks to resolve what expectations homeowners have to privacy as their property is seen from the air.The Courier-Journal reports...
Jan 13 2016 // Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has notified federal authorities he plans to dismantle the state’s health insurance exchange. Bevin campaigned on a pledge to get rid of the exchange, known as kynect. It was...
Dec 30 2015 // A Kentucky state judge ordered an online poker company to pay Kentucky $870 million and sternly rebuked the company for making “a calculation that breaking the law was good for business.”Casino-style gambling...
Dec 29 2015 // The maker of OxyContin will pay Kentucky $24 million over the next eight years as part of the settlement of a long-running lawsuit that accused the company of misleading the public about the addictiveness of the powerful...
Dec 23 2015 // Kentucky Mist Moonshine has dropped a federal lawsuit against the University of Kentucky over trademarks.James Francis, a lawyer for the eastern Kentucky distillery, tells the Lexington Herald-Leader the two sides are...
Dec 21 2015 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak was elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She joins the other 2016 NAIC officers...
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 18 2015 // Kentucky taxpayers are about to win a multimillion-dollar judgment against an online poker company, and about 14,000 poker players have told a judge they deserve the money since they are the ones who lost it.The Kentucky...
Dec 17 2015 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed a Glasgow businessman and former judge-executive to be secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet.Bevin said David A. Dickerson of Glasgow is “a proven business leader and a...
Dec 17 2015 // Federal investigators say they believe Central Kentucky tobacco farmers, crop insurance agents, tobacco warehouse owners and others conspired to defraud thousands and possibly millions of dollars from the U.S. Department...
Dec 10 2015 // Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet has agreed to levy a stiff fine against a coal mining company that acknowledged thousands of Clean Water Act violations, effectively barring the company from operating in...