All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency designated disaster assistance for 13 Kentucky counties to help local governments rebuild public property damaged by the April 3-4 severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding in the...
May 8 2008 // A Fayette County, Ky. resident who formerly worked as a claims supervisor is serving the final days of a 60-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to three felony counts of insurance fraud, according to the Kentucky...
May 6 2008 // California-based NAS Insurance Services and Kentucky Hospital Insurance Company have entered into a new reinsurance arrangement for network security insurance. The agreement provides for KHIC to cover the insured...
May 6 2008 // Kentucky transportation officials are considering installing cable barriers along a section of Interstate 65.There are no funds to widen the four-lane section between Elizabethtown and Bowling Green in the near future....
May 5 2008 // The parents of a teenager killed when a dump truck crashed into a school bus on a curvy northern Kentucky highway filed a lawsuit.Daniel Wood’s parents are alleging negligence by the trucking company and the driver...
May 1 2008 // American equestrian officials were preparing to impose new safety rules – including suspensions for certain dangerous jumps – in the wake of an accident in Kentucky that killed a horse and left its rider...
Apr 30 2008 // A rash of sewer grate thefts around northern Kentucky has police worried about safety as scavengers seek scrap metal to sell.Thieves stole at least 26 sewer grates this month from streets in Newport, Covington, Fort...
Apr 29 2008 // Allen County, Ky. Judge-Executive Bobby Young has a simple description of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.“FEMA is a joke,” Young said. That sentiment – and variations on it – can be heard...
Apr 24 2008 // Lexington, Kentucky authorities have detonated a homemade bomb found in the bed of a pickup truck at Central Baptist Hospital.The device was brought to the hospital by a patient. Central Baptist spokeswoman Ruth Ann...
Apr 23 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration is blocking the appointment of his predecessor’s top aide to Kentucky’s Mine Safety Review Commission.Stan Cave, who was former Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s...
Apr 22 2008 // Murray State University officials expect emergency sirens to be operational on the Kentucky campus in about a month, part of an effort to enhance security procedures that can warn of violence or severe weather.President...
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Apr 15 2008 // A maintenance supervisor for a Louisville, Ky. amusement park said workers did not follow several of the ride manufacturer’s instructions for handling a cable that snapped and severed the feet of a teenager last...
Apr 11 2008 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Connie Lawson to serve as a member of the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to represent mayors across the state.Lawson is currently the mayor of the...
Apr 4 2008 // Most high schoolers will soon be barred from operating thrill rides in Kentucky after a grisly accident last year severed the feet of a girl at a Louisville amusement park.The state Senate voted 37-0 on Tuesday night for...
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...