By ASSOCIATED PRESS A jury has ordered a Kentucky nursing home to pay more than $2.2 million in damages for acting negligently and failing to properly care for a 92-year-old patient with dementia. Jurors ruled Friday that Superior Care Home must compensate the patient’s relatives for medical costs, pain and suffering. The nursing home was…
BY JACK BRAMMER FRANKFORT Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton publicly disputed Gov. Matt Bevin on Friday, saying she has never talked with him about his administration’s dismissal of two of her three top staffers without her consent. Hampton specifically challenged Bevin’s comments in a June 26 Lexington Herald-Leader story in which he tried to play down…
by Tom Loftus, Louisville Courier Journal – FRANKFORT — The trial for Jerry Lundergan, a prominent player in Kentucky Democratic Party politics for 40 years, opens in federal court on Tuesday. He’s charged with conspiring to funnel illegal corporate contributions to the campaign of his daughter, Alison Lundergan Grimes, for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Lundergan is…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM KENTUCKY FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Matt Bevin ceremonially signed Senate Bill 57 on Friday. It expands the pool of people who are able to get their criminal records expunged. The bill was sponsored by Republican State Senator Jimmy Higdon, who represents Lebanan, and carried by State Representative C. Ed Massey, who represents Hebron, in the…
By Ryan Van Velzer In a bid to stall or stop the Bullitt County Pipeline Project, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest has filed a complaint with utility regulators alleging Louisville Gas and Electric bypassed the typical process for a new natural gas pipeline and in doing so hid information from the public. LG&E first mentioned…
By News Staff BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) — As several schools across Kentucky start heading back to class, one lawmaker is pushing for legislation that he hopes will apply the brakes to drivers passing school bus stop signs. State Rep. Robert Goforth (R-East Bernstadt) prefiled the bill last week that would require the installation of…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM KENTUCKY The newest fight between Matt Bevin and Andy Beshear revolves around a Facebook video released by the governor. Bevin released a video slamming Andy Beshear’s first television ad, but the response from the Beshear campaign isn’t focused on what the video is about. The two minute video posted Wednesday challenges the…
By Caitlin McGlade The Loch Mary Reservoir holds enough water to fill about 715 Olympic-sized swimming pools. All that stands between that wall of water and Annette Rudolph’s Earlington, Kentucky neighborhood is a 95-year-old earthen dam, deteriorating and seeping water. Rudolph, 70, has lived in the neighborhood she calls “The Bottom” all her life,…
BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS The Kentucky Department of Education violated the Kentucky Open Records Act in regard to KDE staff sick leave records, the Attorney General’s Office said in an opinion released Monday. The AG ruling said Kentucky Department of Education staff violated the Open Records Act in its response to a man named…
BY DANIEL DESROCHERS AND LESLEY CLARK Fresh off a Fancy Farm weekend where he was heckled as “Moscow Mitch” for refusing to allow a vote on election security bills, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Louisville, received a new round of criticism Monday — this time related to gun violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,…
