by Laura Ungar and Beth Warren, @BethWarrenCJ – The Courier-Journal’s community forum on the region’s prescription pill and heroin crisis, “A Way Forward,” drew more than 400 people July 21 with dozens of questions for featured panelists. Here are answers to more of your questions. Question: People do not seem to be aware of the opportunity to use Casey’s…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton is hoping to encourage a new generation of entrepreneurs with a competition for students. Hampton announced the start of the Lieutenant Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge on Monday. The contest will consist of a business plan proposal and a live pitch competition. It will include two components next year…
BY JACK BRAMMER, jbrammer@herald-leader.com – State Rep. Russ Meyer, D-Nicholasville, released Tuesday a recording of a voicemail message he received in December from Matt Bevin in which Meyer says the Republican governor warned him of the “impacts” of not switching political parties. Meyer said in an interview Tuesday morning that he received the call from Bevin on his…
by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – FRANKFORT, Ky. – It turns out that the Kentucky Democratic Party did not get a windfall cash transfer last month from a Hillary Clinton political committee. In a report filed with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week, the Kentucky Democratic Party reported receiving $793,000 in July from “HVF,” or Hillary Victory…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – A retired Texas official who oversaw a raid on a polygamist sect has been chosen by Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration to run Kentucky’s Department of Juvenile Justice. The Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2bIm0KF) reports Carey D. Cockerell begins his new role in Kentucky next month. Kentucky Justice Secretary John Tilley on Friday praised Cockerell’s…
by Jason Riley – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — On April 18, a south central Kentucky man appeared before an Adair County judge on what was considered his first drunken driving charge — a misdemeanor violation. But by the end of his hearing that day, the man’s charge had been upgraded to his fourth such offense, which is a…
by Grace Schneider, @gesinfk – UPS unveiled its vision a year ago for investing $310 million to expand their sprawling ground shipping hub in southern Louisville. On Thursday, company executives and three top political leaders will gather to break ground for the expansion and modernization and discuss more details of the project. The growth is expected to add 300 new full-…
by Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.com – Get them treatment. Now. It’s the answer that area addiction experts have in response to a furious outbreak of overdoses in Cincinnati and Hamilton County that started with more than 30 people in hospitals on the weekend and another 21 people Tuesday night alone. As officials were reeling on Wednesday, the addiction…
The Associated Press – FRANKFORT, KY. — The director of Kentucky’s forensic crime lab says the state is working through its backlog of untested rape kits and should get the first batch of results next month. An audit last year revealed Kentucky had more than 3,000 untested rape kits, a collection of physical evidence from a victim…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Newly released ACT scores show only a fifth of Kentucky’s 2016 high school graduates met all the benchmarks that show they are ready for college-level coursework. News outlets report that the scores, released Wednesday, didn’t move significantly compared to the Class of 2015. More students in the Class of 2016 were able to reach…