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…
By TAYLOR INMAN – Kentucky Congressman James Comer is weighing in on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. The Republican congressman said in a statement that the accord was an unfair deal, saying “With this move, President Trump continues to look out for working Kentuckians in coal country.”…
BY: Kirsten Clark , @kirstenlmclark – Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed four non-voting, non-member advisers to the Kentucky Board of Education, according to a press release issued Monday evening. The move comes just days after Bevin signed an executive order restructuring various education-related boards and councils in the Commonwealth. The four new advisers are: Tracey Cusick,…
BY: BY BILL ESTEP bestep@herald-leader.com – The trial was scheduled to begin Monday for the only person who will go before a jury in a case involving alleged massive disability fraud in Eastern Kentucky. Pikeville psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins was charged with well-known attorney Eric C. Conn and David B. Daugherty, an administrative law judge who heard appeals…
By Ryland Barton – Last week, church leaders from West Louisville and beyond packed into a public school auditorium to hear Gov. Matt Bevin’s ideas for how to stop a surge of violent crime in the neighborhood. The governor asked the audience to form prayer groups to walk the blocks of three West End zip codes. Some…