All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2009 // Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating the shooting death of a former state GOP lawmaker’s ex-girlfriend, after the woman was found shot to death Sept. 11.Authorities said Amanda Ross, 29, a Department of...
Sep 18 2009 // A one-time Kentucky political star whose reputation was tarnished by an ex-girlfriend’s domestic violence allegations told police of wanting revenge when he was arrested in a cemetery hours after she was shot to...
Sep 18 2009 // The Kentucky Derby Museum will remain closed for the rest of the year as the tourist attraction showcasing the world’s most famous horse race tries to recover from flood damage.Flash flooding that hit Louisville in...
Sep 16 2009 // Lexington police have charged former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn with murder the death of his ex-girlfriend.Nunn, 56, was also charged with violation of a protective order. Lexington police said warrants were served on...
Sep 15 2009 // Motorists would be forbidden to send text messages while behind the wheel under proposals awaiting legislative action in Kentucky early next year.Two lawmakers have filed bills that would add Kentucky to a growing list of...
Sep 15 2009 // Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating the shooting death of a former state GOP lawmaker’s ex-girlfriend, after the woman was found shot to death early Friday outside her town house.Authorities said Amanda...
Sep 10 2009 // Kentucky residents who suffered from severe flooding in Jefferson County last month may still be eligible for federal or state government disaster aid even if they have insurance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is...
Sep 7 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent. Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
Aug 27 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent.Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
Aug 26 2009 // Kentucky Insurance Department has approved vendors with software that can help insurance companies comply with a new law on collecting premium taxes. The new state law (HB 524) requires insurers to use a verified...
Aug 24 2009 // A string of employee terminations by the Kentucky Association of Counties has cost the agency millions of dollars, according to a published report.The Lexington Herald-Leader says documents it obtained show KACo spent a...
Aug 21 2009 // The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts has an agreement with Codell Construction Co. that will allow courthouse projects in four counties to begin.A review was ordered after it was found the Winchester-based...
Aug 20 2009 // A Kentucky League of Cities agency has stopped using a law firm where the husband of the League’s executive director works. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the League’s Insurance Services board decided last...
Aug 7 2009 // Much of the Kentucky Derby Museum’s prized collection is scattered on tables after extensive damage from flash flooding that hit Louisville. Insurance investigators toured the museum on Wednesday, a day after...
Aug 4 2009 // Kentucky National Insurance Co., a Lexington-based property/ casualty insurance company, began offering insurance to customers in Tennessee June 1, 2009. Kentucky National is offering auto, homeowners, boat, renters,...
Jul 13 2009 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance is reviewing the operations of a nonprofit group that provides insurance for most of the state’s counties.The action came after a series of newspaper articles in the Lexington...
Jul 6 2009 // Elected county officials in Kentucky who run afoul of the law can have their legal bills paid by a nonprofit lobbying group set up for the state’s counties. The Kentucky Association of Counties’ taxpayer-funded...
Jun 25 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. said it received word this week that it has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky.The expansion into Kentucky begins a “new...
Jun 22 2009 // Federal prosecutors may seize $30 million and three bank accounts from a pair of Kentucky lawyers convicted of bilking clients in a diet-drug settlement, a judge says.U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves on Thursday granted...
May 22 2009 // Two eastern Kentucky insurance agents and an agency employee have been ordered to pay fines, serve probationary sentences and perform public service work on their guilty pleas in a fraud case. The sentences were given to...