All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 29 2011 // Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates.Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss costs...
Aug 26 2011 // A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis has lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the...
Aug 24 2011 // The Kentucky Supreme Court is being asked to review a lawsuit seeking damages for the death of an early-term fetus in a car crash.The lawsuit was brought by Thomas A. Stevens on behalf of his 24-year-old daughter, Desiree...
Aug 22 2011 // Opening arguments are scheduled to be heard today in the civil trial of a man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago.A jury was seated in a Shelbyville, Kentucky, courtroom last Thursday in the...
Aug 16 2011 // Officials in McCracken County are moving forward with a plan to purchase property from flood victims so that the land won’t be built on again.The McCracken County Fiscal Court voted last week to apply to participate...
Aug 10 2011 // An Army soldier who filed a lawsuit over the treatment of his wife’s cancer at a military hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky., has reached a settlement with the federal government for $2.15 million.U.S. District Court...
Aug 8 2011 // A northern Kentucky county hard hit by spring flooding is receiving nearly $630,000 in federal money to fix damaged roads, parks and buildings.Kathleen Murray, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, says seven...
Jul 26 2011 // Along a newly paved road at Harless Creek in Kentucky’s Pike County, dozens of new vehicles and a handful of new modular homes point to progress since severe flooding hit the area a year ago.At Raccoon Creek, freshly...
Jul 20 2011 // A fire chief says a blaze that destroyed a strip mall in central Kentucky was arson.Meade County Fire Chief Larry Naser said investigators have ruled out electrical and mechanical causes and spontaneous combustion. Naser...
Jul 18 2011 // An attorney for Steve Nunn said the former state lawmaker has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-fiance and has received a sentence of life without parole. Nunn entered the plea in Fayette Circuit Court in Lexington,...
Jul 7 2011 // Kentucky police agencies say the commonwealth’s texting-while-driving statute is well intended, but difficult to enforce.The law took effect a year ago, but officers issued only verbal warnings for the first six...
Jul 5 2011 // Nine Amish men from western Kentucky have asked the state Supreme Court to overturn their convictions for failing to display bright safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.The men’s lawyers filed the appeal...
Jun 29 2011 // An attorney for Steve Nunn says the former state lawmaker has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-fiance and has received a sentence of life without parole.Nunn entered the plea Tuesday morning in Fayette Circuit Court in...
Jun 24 2011 // A possible tornado damaged several horse barns at Churchill Downs, prompting track officials to temporarily halt races Thursday at the famed Kentucky Derby horse track.Some horses have been moved to private farms,...
Jun 22 2011 // Three men who spent more than half a day trapped underground in a flooded southeastern Kentucky coal mine waded out and were on their way home after just a quick hospital evaluation.Relief was on the faces of Pernell...
Jun 14 2011 // Judges in Kentucky’s Jefferson County have stopped a program giving drivers without insurance a way to avoid a hefty fine because court officials say it nearly impossible to monitor the growing number of...
May 23 2011 // Linville Insurance Agency Inc. of Berea has become Keystone Insurers Group’s newest franchise partner in Kentucky. This brings the total number of Keystone’s franchises in the state to 22. The agency has...
May 16 2011 // Members of the armed services will find it easier to keep or obtain an insurance agent’s license under a new law approved by Kentucky lawmakers. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has signed into law HB 301 that...
May 13 2011 // A suburban fire department in Louisville, Ky. will begin charging a fee to battle most blazes later this summer.Lyndon will charge a homeowner’s or business’ insurance company as part of a new...
May 4 2011 // Members of the armed services and their sponsors will find it easier to keep or obtain an agent’s license under a new law approved by Kentucky lawmakers.Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has signed into law HB 301 that...