All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2008 // Kentucky golfers and anyone who owns a golf cart within five-miles of a golf course entrance have the go-ahead to putter around on public roadways, per recent legislation.While the golf cart does not meet the state’s...
Aug 19 2008 // A Jockey Club panel will be studying whether the number of horses allowed into the Kentucky Derby poses a safety risk.The annual Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. regularly draws 20 horses to the...
Aug 4 2008 // Not so long ago, former Mississippi-based Richard “Dickie” Scruggs was one of the most powerful civil lawsuit attorneys in the country. In prison, he will be inmate No. 12734-042.Scruggs, 62, must report to a...
Aug 4 2008 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the introduction of its farm line of business (ISO Division Four) on Commercial IQ, its web-based application for quoting and application...
Jul 31 2008 // Kentucky lawmakers adopted insurance legislation during the 2008 regular legislative session that will affect agents and carriers working in the state.The Insurance Producer Modernization bill (HB 334) allows an agent to...
Jul 25 2008 // Famed Mississippi anti-tobacco lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is ordered to report to a federal prison in Ashland, Ky., in August to start serving his five-year sentence for attempting to bribe a Mississippi...
Jul 16 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced a reorganization within the Justice Cabinet that will make Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement a division of Kentucky State Police. The two agencies share responsibility for highway...
Jul 11 2008 // A federal judge dismissed Delta Air Lines Inc. from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people two years ago.U.S. District Judge Karl Forester said in a 13-page opinion that no...
Jul 10 2008 // Kentucky golfers and anyone who owns a golf cart within five-miles of a golf course entrance have the go-ahead to putter around on public roadways, per recently signed legislation.In a measure that may also be of interest...
Jul 10 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear appointed the following members to the Kentucky Emergency Response Commission:Edward W. Tonini, of Frankfort, is the adjutant general of Kentucky for the Department of Military Affairs. The...
Jul 9 2008 // The federal judge who oversaw the eight-week trial of two lawyers accused of conspiring to defraud their clients out of $65 million in a diet-drug settlement won’t handle the retrial.U.S. District Judge William O....
Jul 7 2008 // Kentucky led the nation in all-terrain vehicle (ATV)-related deaths in 2007, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The frequency of injuries and fatalities caught University of Kentucky hospital surgeon...
Jun 24 2008 // Kentucky led the nation in ATV-related deaths in 2007 according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The frequency of injuries and fatalities caught University of Kentucky hospital surgeon Andrew Bernard’s...
Jun 23 2008 // Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration officials said they told 16 U.S. mining companies they have patterns of violating health and safety rules and warned them to clean up their acts or face heightened...
Jun 17 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear appointed two new administrative law judges in the Department of Workers Claims.Beshear appointed private practice attorney Joseph W. Justice, of Pikeville. The appointment replaces John W....
Jun 16 2008 // The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a warning to a mine in eastern Kentucky for safety violations.The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that the agency issued the warning on June 12 to Stillhouse Mine...
Jun 13 2008 // A Corbin, Ky. woman is in custody after being indicted on a felony count of insurance fraud, the Kentucky Office of Insurance reported.According to court documents, Christine V. Young filled out an application for...
Jun 10 2008 // The air traffic controllers’ union is urging a federal safety board to reopen its findings on a 2006 plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people and include understaffing at the airport tower as a contributing...
Jun 9 2008 // SafeAuto Insurance Co., is adding a new contact center and backup data center to service customers nationwide in central Kentucky, a move that will create 236 new full-time jobs. The facility represents an annual net...
Jun 9 2008 // The Coast Guard says salvage operations are to start after two barges carrying iron ore sank in the Ohio River near downtown Louisville, Ky.Authorities shut traffic down on the river near where the two barges sank June 6....