Kentucky has a pension crisis; the amount of money the commonwealth expects to owe for state employees’ and teachers’ retirement outweighs the amount of money coming in. Gov. Matt Bevin has proposed a pension fix, but it’s been met with outrage by many of the state employees that would be affected. Meanwhile, a special session to address…
The city of Louisville has paid more than $566,000 to nine law firms to fight Kerry Porter’s claim for compensation for the 14 years spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit. Porter was exonerated in 2011 by former Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Stengel for the 1996 killing of truck driver Tyrone Camp. In…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s public schools are becoming less white, but black students still lag behind their white peers in reading and math proficiency according to an Associated Press analysis of more than a decade’s worth of data from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 2000, 68 percent of Kentucky’s public schools were…
A federal judge has denied a request to set aside the conviction of former Morgan County Judge-Executive Tim Conley in a corruption case. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove rejected Conley’s argument that a U.S. Supreme Court decision returned after Conley was sentenced invalidated the conviction. Van Tatenhove also declined to issue a certificate…
Kentucky’s highest court will hear a controversial case involving a Lexington company’s refusal to print a T-shirt for the city’s annual gay-pride festival. The Kentucky Supreme Court issued an order last month saying it would hear the case, which stems from a decision in 2012 by Hands On Originals to refuse to print a T-shirt…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Tuesday night’s JCPS board meeting took place at Jeffersontown High School, where a fight that involved a school resource officer erupted earlier this month. The SRO tried to break up a fight between two students in the cafeteria and ended up being attacked, according to police and school officials. Two Jeffersontown…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 28, 2017) – A recent study by University of Kentucky BREATHE (Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments) researchers shows that fewer new cases of lung cancer were found in communities with strong smoke-free workplace laws. The study, “Lung Cancer Incidence and the Strength of Municipal Smoke-free Ordinances” was published in Cancer, an American Cancer…
If Kentucky’s second-quarter budget numbers roll in as expected in December, public schools will feel the shortage this spring. It’s mostly teachers who will bear the sting of that financial slap in the form of reduced professional training, but the trickle-down effect will leave districts with fewer resources that fall under the category of “textbooks”…
Betsy Layne High School serves rural Floyd County in the eastern Kentucky town of Stanville, population 206. Students there produce a video program called “Bobcat Banter” where they usually talk about sports and student life. But early last year “Bobcat Banter” introduced some special guests. “We’re here with Mr. and Mrs. Gates from the Gates Foundation,”…
FRANKFORT — As the number of days left in this year’s calendar dwindle and state House Republicans continue working on ways to “tweak” pension-reform legislation, the question increasingly heard in Frankfort is: Will there be a special session in 2017?Gov. Matt Bevin just last week reiterated his determination to call a special session this year…