All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 28 2008 // Kentucky mine safety officials issued multiple citations in the death of an eastern Kentucky coal truck driver who was killed at Blue Ridge surface mine in Letcher County.Authorities say 29-year-old Roy D. Sturgill died...
Mar 26 2008 // Roofers and other construction workers are busy repairing damage from the severe weather that raced through Kentucky early last month.When the Kentucky Office of Insurance sent members of its emergency response team to...
Mar 26 2008 // Federal officials sentenced a Prospect, Ky. woman to 41 months imprisonment for one count of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced.Chief Judge John G. Heyburn II, also...
Mar 21 2008 // When Kentucky coal miner, Charles Scott Howard, played an eye-catching videotape last year that showed barriers so cracked that water gushed through them, he prompted a federal investigation that led to citations against...
Mar 20 2008 // The Kentucky Senate passed legislation that would require coal companies to post their global positioning system (GPS) coordinates at mine sites so that medical helicopters can be given precise directions in cases of...
Mar 19 2008 // A severely burned Ora Murphy lay on a gurney at a coal mining operation in the remote mountains of eastern Kentucky waiting for a medical helicopter to transport him to a hospital nearly 100 miles away.Problem was, no one...
Mar 18 2008 // A southeastern Kentucky jury awarded $5.14 million to a man whose wife and daughter were killed in a wreck with a sheriff’s deputy.Jurors in McCreary County handed down the verdict last week in a lawsuit against...
Mar 18 2008 // A Kentucky state employee involved in charitable work has been indicted on three counts of theft in Franklin County.Authorities say 47-year-old Leela Flowers stole at least $2,000 belonging to the Kentucky Employees...
Mar 13 2008 // Potential fines would increase tenfold and the age of amusement park ride operators would rise under a bill the Kentucky Senate has passed unanimously.The action follows an accident at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom last year...
Mar 11 2008 // Kentucky lawmakers are taking steps aimed at improving the safety of amusement rides in the wake of a grisly accident last year that severed the feet of a girl at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville.A Senate committee...
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Mar 7 2008 // A Marion, Ky., woman must repay $69,414 after receiving and cashing disability benefit checks for almost four years after the insured’s death, according to Kentucky Office of Insurance.According to Lyon Circuit Court...
Feb 29 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency opened a center in southern Kentucky about a mile from where a winter storms tore apart homes and killed four people earlier this month.FEMA workers are at a Mobile Disaster Recovery...
Feb 27 2008 // Vandals caused about $13,000 in damage to a Louisville, Ky., school and closed classes while crews cleaned up the mess.Louisville police say students at DeSales High School stayed home Monday after vandals sprayed fire...
Feb 26 2008 // A Floyd County, Ky., woman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor insurance fraud charge after lying about her husband’s employment history during a workers’ compensation hearing, according to the Kentucky Office of...
Feb 25 2008 // President Bush has issued a major disaster declaration for parts of Kentucky hit by severe storms earlier this month.The White House said that the declaration covers nine counties. Some of the areas were struck by deadly...
Feb 22 2008 // A judge’s controversial ruling in a Kentucky plane crash liability case has sparked concern across the aviation industry about the long-term survival of a popular program that allows air travel workers to privately...
Feb 20 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Dwight T. Lovan as Executive Director of the Office of Workers’ Claims.Lovan, 57, previously worked as an attorney for Jones, Walters, Turner & Shelton in Owensboro, Ky....