by Tanner Hesterberg – PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) – The two men hoping to emerge from the Kentucky’s May primary election as the Democratic nominee for 93rd District state representative squared off in a debate Monday night at the East Kentucky Expo Center in Pikeville. Democrats in Martin County and part of Pike County will choose between incumbent…
by Joseph Gerth, @Joe_Gerth – Former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, who was fired for behavior the schools’ president said was “uncivil, defiant and unacceptable,” will appear Wednesday at an Indianapolis rally for GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, according to multiple sources. The Hill reported the Trump campaign announced Knight’s appearance on Monday. Trump tipped his…
by Kevin Wheatley, @KWheatley_cn2 – Gov. Matt Bevin has flown to Europe to promote Kentucky as a business destination, his office announced Tuesday in a news release. Bevin will attend the Hannover Messe Fair in Hannover, Germany, on Tuesday, when he will meet with current businesses with locations in the state as well as others that may be…
by The Associated Press – LOUISVILLE, KY. — A National Park Service report shows that more than 1.7 million visitors to national parks in Kentucky spent $113.5 million in the state last year. The report says that spending resulted in 1,784 jobs and had a cumulative benefit of $145 million to the state’s economy. The report says…
by Scott Wartman and Jeremy Fugleberg, jfugleberg@enquirer.com – LEXINGTON, Ky — Mitch McConnell squared up against Donald Trump for control of the Kentucky delegation that will help pick the Republican presidential nominee, and McConnell won. The Senate Majority Leader, who hails from Louisville, heads the slate of 25 delegates picked by the Kentucky GOP at its state convention on…
Joseph Gerth, @Joe_Gerth – Cruz, Kasich join forces to try to defeat Trump Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is scheduled to speak at Huber’s Orchard and Winery at 10:30 a.m. Monday. Cruz has joined forces with fellow candidate John Kasich, Ohio’s governor, in a bid to prevent Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination. Cruz’s…
By WKYT News Staff – FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – Governor Matt Bevin has to veto lines from the budget or sign it this week. Bevin said he is pleased with the bill but indicated that he will strike some lines from the budget. The House and the Senate struggled through stalemates and deadlocks to approve the…
Deborah Yetter, @d_yetter – FRANKFORT, Ky. – Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate said he will rule within a few weeks on whether Gov. Matt Bevin has the authority to cut funds to higher education in the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, Attorney General Andy Beshear, who is challenging that action, and lawyers for Bevin struck a deal in which…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hired a veteran of Alison Lundergan Grimes’ 2014 Senate run to lead her Kentucky campaign ahead of next month’s presidential primary. The Clinton campaign hired Elizabeth Cantrell Brooks as its state director ahead of the May 17th Kentucky presidential primary. Brooks worked for Grimes’ unsuccessful Senate campaign and was…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The chairman of the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board of Trustees is presiding at a meeting in defiance of Gov. Matt Bevin’s order removing him from the board. Thomas K. Elliott took his seat at the head of the board table at Thursday’s regularly-scheduled board meeting, a day after Bevin issued the order…