All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2007 // Removing Kentucky mountaintops in search of coal is a noisy, jarring process.Warning sirens blare, followed by massive explosions that shake the earth and propel broken rocks skyward. Bulldozers rumble across parched...
Apr 30 2007 // Kentucky storms that caused flooding, mudslides, power outages, damages to public and private property and road closures prompted Gov. Ernie Fletcher to declare a state of emergency.The severe weather which spread across...
Apr 30 2007 // A Kentucky-Tennessee consortium advanced efforts to attract the proposed federal National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to Pulaski County, Ky., meeting with a delegation of U. S. Department of Homeland Security and U. S....
Apr 17 2007 // Westfield Insurance and its employees have been recognized for their political and community involvement by the commonwealth of Kentucky and by the Showalter Group, winning an award for innovative grassroots...
Apr 6 2007 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher said he will sign a bill aimed at improving safety conditions for social workers that was passed in reaction to the slaying of a social worker in western Kentucky, his administration said.The...
Apr 5 2007 // A train derailment that ignited a large, toxic blaze that forced residents near Louisville, Kentucky from their homes for days was caused by a broken bolt, the rail company said this week. The National Transportation...
Apr 4 2007 // Claudia Cole would have considered herself an unlikely person to be a lobbyist in the state Capitol.She preferred the simple life of wife and mother. But when her husband was killed in a Kentucky coal mine, the country...
Apr 3 2007 // Harold Simpson, owner and operator of Simpson Mining Co. in Perry County, Ky., pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court after special investigators with Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance discovered...
Mar 20 2007 // With “firm but flexible regulation” in place, Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak says her state is an attractive draw for the captive insurance market and she hopes to encourage continued broad...
Mar 12 2007 // The process for deciding where coal gasification plants can be built in Kentucky would be streamlined under a bill that received final passage by the state Senate last week. The bill allows proposed coal or biomass...
Mar 12 2007 // Julie Mix McPeak, an attorney with more than a decade of experience in state government, was appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance (KOI) by Gov. Ernie Fletcher last June. McPeak succeeded Glenn...
Mar 6 2007 // National Guardsmen and emergency management officials in 13 western Kentucky counties spent last week responding to an earthquake that hadn’t actually occurred.The exercise simulated response to a magnitude 7.5...
Feb 22 2007 // An 84-year-old man plowed his car into a western Kentucky insurance agency office where he was planning to pay his bill.Leonard G. Rickman, of Paducah, pulled into a parking lot of the State Farm Insurance office shortly...
Feb 16 2007 // Kentucky’s status as the nation’s leading adult smoking state makes it more susceptible to fatal fires sparked by cigarettes, a safety advocate said this week. The solution is to join several other states by...
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
Feb 11 2007 // Julie Mix McPeak cares about the health insurance crisis facing small businesses in Kentucky and in response to the problem she helped to implement the “I-CARE” initiative.About 90 percent of businesses in...
Feb 5 2007 // A small earthquake along the New Madrid Fault shook two towns in far western Kentucky, but no injuries or damages were reported. The magnitude 2.9 quake, centered 3 miles northwest of Bardwell, was recorded at 5:47 p.m....
Feb 1 2007 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance has asked a judge to reconsider his decision to allow a Christian-only health care plan to continue operating in the state.Other states recognize Medi-Share as insurance and subject it to...
Jan 29 2007 // A Christians-only health plan that serves nearly 20,000 churchgoers nationwide can continue operating in Kentucky, a judge ruled recenntly.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate said the Medi-Share program...
Jan 28 2007 // A Christians-only health plan that serves nearly 20,000 churchgoers nationwide can continue operating in Kentucky, a judge ruled recenntly.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate said the Medi-Share program...