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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet offers scholarships for civil engineering students

Scholarship program includes tuition assistance, summer work and employment upon graduation FRANKFORT, Ky. – Continuing one of the commonwealth’s most attractive higher education opportunities, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will award up to 30 new scholarships for the 2018-19 school year for prospective and current college students pursuing civil engineering and engineering technology degrees. Interested students…

NKY Health Innovation Initiative gets $731k i6 Challenge grant from U.S. Department of Commerce

The Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development Corporation’s Entrepreneurship Council (NKYEC), in partnership with the Northern Kentucky University’s Institute of Health Innovation and St. Elizabeth Healthcare, was awarded a $731,250 grant to build the Northern Kentucky Health Innovation Initiative (NKY-HII) by the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. This is the first time funds from the i6…

Lab contamination slows progress on Kentucky’s rape kit backlog

by Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal Contamination at an out-of-state laboratory that tests rape kits has delayed progress on thousands of backlogged kits in Kentucky. Staff at Kentucky State Police’s central forensic laboratory in Frankfort caught the error in late May as part of their normal data review process. Lab scientists noticed the same suspect, a…

Allegations against Hoover to remain sealed as his lawyer pushes to question Jane Doe

by DANIEL DESROCHERS FRANKFORT — A deposition that contains allegations of sexual misconduct by former House Speaker Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown, remained sealed Tuesday as two Franklin Circuit Judges decide whether his attorney has the right to cross examine the former legislative staffer who made the allegations. Two former House Republican Staffers — former communications director Daisy Olivo and…

Kentucky’s special session on pensions is over. Who are the winners and losers?

by Thomas Novelly, Louisville Courier JournalT Gov. Matt Bevin’s special session? Not so special, after all. The special legislative session Bevin called Monday evening to address the state’s pension crisis, one of his main campaign promises, ended barely 24 hours later with no action to fix the billions of dollars in debt.  Teachers cheered, Bevin jeered…

Gov. Bevin makes appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin has made the following appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions: Les K. Hill, Richard F. Gimmel Jr., Larry B. Hammond, Dustin Eric Phelps, Shannon Keith Frazier, Kevin Carter Stewart, and Aaron H. Gillum have been appointed as members of the Center for School Safety. Les K. Hill, of Burlington, is…

AG: Demise Of Health Law Would Be ‘More Stark’ In Kentucky

By JOSH JAMES Kentucky’s attorney general is painting a dire picture of the effect Friday’s federal court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act could have on the commonwealth, and the Democrat is vowing a tireless fight against the ruling. Beshear warns the ruling endangers healthcare coverage for more than 1.3 million Kentuckians, potentially rolling back…

He got 30 days for breaking Rand Paul’s ribs. Prosecutors appeal, seeking prison.

BY BILL ESTEP A federal judge disregarded factors that called for a longer prison sentence for the man who “spear-tackled” U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and as a result the assailant’s time behind bars was unreasonably short, the government has argued. A government prosecutor filed a motion last week asking the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals…

Poll shows Bevin approval slipping, Beshear ahead in possible matchup

by Alfred Miller, Louisville Courier Journal The Kentucky governor is slamming ProPublica and the Courier Journal, and he’s also added a Fox News appearance to defend his stance. Courier Journal, Louisville Courier Journal Kentuckians are none too pleased with their governor, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll.  Statewide, 53 percent of Kentucky voters disapprove of Matt Bevin’s…

Need for ‘Kinship Care Program’ in Kentucky Remains High

By COLIN JACKSON Kayden is an energetic five year old—though he’ll tell you he’s actually five-and-a-half. He lives in Russellville with his sister, Kaleigh, their grandmother, and her husband. Kayden and Kaleigh are just two of the estimated 96,000 Kentucky kids living with a non-parental relative or a close-family friend–known as “fictive kin”–in the last three…