BY: Andrew Wolfson and Grace Schneider – During its first meeting since the release of a blistering audit, the board of the University of Louisville Foundation emerged from a two-hour closed session signaling it needs to do more analysis before it takes any action. The members agreed to appoint an ad hoc committee to consider…
BY MONICA KAST [email protected] – A Lexington biotechnology company aimed at fighting mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus opened a mosquito factory Friday on Malabu Drive. MosquitoMate, a biotechnology company founded by University of Kentucky entomology professor Stephen Dobson, will use the 6,000-square-foot space to raise millions of sterile, non-biting mosquitoes that will act…
by Madeline Janicki – Governor Matt Bevin has told Attorney General Andy Beshear that he intends to alter his executive order reorganizing education boards by Friday, June 16, according to a press release from Beshear’s office. Last week Beshear announced that he would give the Governor a week to rescind an order dissolving and reorganizing…
By MATT MARKGRAF Governor Matt Bevin is joining state and local officials in Paducah on Wednesday to ceremonially sign the bill that effectively lifted the nuclear moratorium in Kentucky. The state legislature passed Senate Bill 11 -known as the ‘Leeper Act’ earlier this year. The measure is named after McCracken County Judge Executive and former…
by Madeline Janicki As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen victim advocacy resources, the Office of the Attorney General will recognize its first-ever Distinguished Service Award winner during the Victims Assistance Conference in Frankfort this week. Marlene Zimmerman is a victim advocate with the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office of Domestic Violence and will be recognized…
BY ADAM BEAM | Associated Press FRANKFORT, KY. – A powerful Republican lawmaker says a “significant number” in the GOP-controlled state legislature believe Gov. Matt Bevin’s use of executive orders threatens their independence but he stopped short of endorsing a lawsuit proposed by the state’s Democratic attorney general. State Rep. John Carney, chairman of the House…
BY DEBORAH YETTER Isolated at her Berea home for a year, beaten bloody with a belt, forced into icy showers and ordered to sit for hours at the kitchen table, sometimes naked, writing pages of sentences as “home schooling,” the 8-year-old girl’s condition amounted to one of the worst abuse cases in memory for child…
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tax experts say a Kentucky businessman who sold a home to Republican Gov. Matt Bevin could reap a benefit from the sale in the form of a large tax break. University of Kentucky associate law professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the lower price Bevin paid could be used…
BY JACK BRAMMER FRANKFORT – Nearly two years after rejecting requests to remove a controversial statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Kentucky’s Capitol Rotunda, a state panel that promised to produce educational materials to help put the statue in historical context is only now beginning its work. Raoul Cunningham, president of the state and Louisville…
By Chris Otts – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A year and a half after Louisville-based Kindred Healthcare bought the home of one of its top executives, the company sold the home at a $250,000 loss, Jefferson County property records show. Kindred sold the 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom house in Louisville’s upscale Glenview neighborhood for $1.9 million on…
