By ASSOCIATED PRESS A Kentucky appeals court ruled Friday that an online poker company does not have to pay the state $870 million plus interest, a blow to the state’s novel effort to recover the illegal gambling losses of more than 34,000 of its citizens. A three-judge panel of the Kentucky Court of Appeals concluded the…
BY ANNIE ANDERSEN KENTUCKY JENKINS–Two Kentucky lawmakers are coming together to help former coal miners who are now ill. Richard Yonts is one of the miners who says he will benefit if the bill passes. Yonts worked in the mines of Eastern Kentucky for 35 years. He now keeps emergency inhalers in one pocket and a vial of nitroglycerin tablets…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…