All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2009 // Residents of the Midwest began clearing away wreckage May 9 following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people.Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or...
May 1 2009 // Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced that his office will train police officers and local prosecutors on the effective prosecution of vehicular homicide cases. Robert Stokes, the Commonwealth’s Traffic...
Apr 21 2009 // Kentucky insurance officials are moving to assist victims of recent severe storms in the Murfreesboro area. The Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Insurance is setting up a temporary consumer center in...
Apr 17 2009 // A Massey Energy subsidiary was fined $2.5 million fine this week after a federal judge accepted the company’s guilty plea to 10 criminal charges for a fire that killed two West Virginia coal miners.U.S. District...
Apr 9 2009 // Two disbarred lawyers convicted of scamming their former clients in a diet drug case out of millions of dollars must forfeit $30 million, a federal jury ruled Tuesday.Former attorneys William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham...
Apr 7 2009 // A new requirement that construction managers on 35 state courthouse projects insure the entire value of their work will not increase the state’s costs, an attorney investigating the projects said.But attorney William...
Mar 17 2009 // National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (“NCIC”) specializes in general liability insurance for licensed residential and commercial general and artisan contractors. NCIC writes the...
Mar 6 2009 // Critics are complaining that three measures pending in the Kentucky legislature could undo key provisions of the state’s mine safety law.One would sharply reduce inspections performed by the Kentucky Office of Mine...
Mar 4 2009 // A Kentucky lawmaker pushing to reduce the number of medics required at small mines owns a mine that was cited last year for not having the personnel on duty.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that state inspectors last...
Feb 27 2009 // Kentucky and federal officials say damage estimates from the January ice storm will likely top $185 million. Kentucky’s Emergency Management director, Brig. Gen. John W. Heltzel, says the damages were primarily...
Feb 24 2009 // People caught driving drunk in Kentucky just once could be forced to install breath-alcohol monitoring devices in their cars, as the state’s lawmakers consider joining other states, including Alaska, in toughening...
Feb 22 2009 // Kentucky officials say the Jan. 27 storm that blanketed the region with ice and snow took 35 lives. About 769,000 customers lost power at its peak, and almost 50,000 were still without power two weeks later.More than 100...
Feb 13 2009 // Kentucky officials say the Jan. 27 storm that blanketed the region with ice and snow has taken 35 lives. About 769,000 customers lost power at its peak, and almost 50,000 are still without power.The state has received a...
Feb 6 2009 // When O’Neill Lawrence returned from a supply run to his western Kentucky farm in Leitchfield, Kentucky, on Wednesday, he met FEMA’s top official at his gate. One of thousands without electricity more than a...
Feb 4 2009 // Gov. Steve Beshear says he will ask President Barack Obama to declare a major disaster in Kentucky, which will open the state to immediate federal financial assistance in the wake of last week’s devastating ice...
Feb 4 2009 // In the first real test of the Obama administration’s ability to respond to a disaster, Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm.Yet more than 300,000...
Feb 2 2009 // In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their...
Feb 2 2009 // The widow of an eastern Kentucky coal miner who died on the job last year has sued one of the nation’s largest coal companies for more than $37 million in damages.The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that an attorney...
Jan 30 2009 // In the midst of a winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians without electricity, a minor earthquake has hit in southeastern Kentucky.The University of Kentucky’s Kentucky Geological Survey Web...
Jan 30 2009 // Food regulators didn’t consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation’s top peanut-producing state...