LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — 63 law enforcement officers from Kentucky began training classes Sunday at the Kentucky State Police Academy in Frankfort, Kentucky. According to a release, the intensive training program is designed for any current officers who want to become Kentucky State Troopers. The course, Cadet Class 95, is a condensed 12-week course for…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal science committee studying the health risks for people living near surface coal mines has scheduled a public meeting this week in southern West Virginia. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee plans to hear from state health and environmental officials, coal operators and environmental groups at a…
Instead of preparing for school on Sunday evening, many kids across the Bluegrass will soon be enjoying their first official day of summer vacation. However, with that excitement comes anxiety for thousands of families in the Bluegrass who rely on school breakfasts and lunches. “We were so worried about frivolous lawsuits that we were willing…
By Taylor Frost | FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Now that summer is right around the corner, many tourists will venture to the mountains for vacation. “We’ve already had three motor coach groups that have come through the area already for the spring, which is good for us,” Mitchell Pearson, executive director of tourism for Prestonsburg, said. Pearson shared that…
by Phillip M. Bailey , @phillipmbailey – The Louisville Arena Authority and the University of Louisville’s athletics department have regularly failed to meet deadlines on their annual payments under the Yum Center’s lease agreement, according to state Auditor Mike Harmon’s long-awaited audit. That was the lone finding in Harmon’s five-month review released Thursday, which says the…
by JOHN CHEVES, jcheves@herald-leader.com – FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s public pension debt just got a few billion dollars bigger. On Thursday, the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees approved more pessimistic assumptions about the investment returns for state pension funds and the growth of state government payroll. The board debated but delayed voting on a similarly stark set of assumptions for…
BY: Sheldon S. Shafer , @sheldonshafer Big plans are in the works to develop the former Foodport site at Muhammad Ali Boulevard and Market Street in West Louisville with what the backers describe as a $200 million research park. A group of West End ministers led by the Rev. Charles Elliott plan a news conference Thursday,…
BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com Some Central Kentucky school districts, including Fayette County, are among those across the nation that withhold a hot meal and instead offer a cheese sandwich and a carton of milk when students have a longstanding unpaid bill. Those students’ families earn too much income to be eligible for the government’s…
by Don Weber – UNION – The Boone County Republican Party has called for the resignation of Commonwealth’s Attorney Linda Tally-Smith, a Republican, who had an extramarital affair with the lead detective who worked the case which ultimately led to the conviction of David Dooley in the 2012 murder of Michelle Mockbee at a warehouse where they both…
By Whitney Davis | BOWLING GREEN, KY. (WBKO) — Western Kentucky University appeared in Warren Circuit Court Monday morning after filing a lawsuit against its student run newspaper, the College Heights Herald. The purpose of the court appearance was to give both the Attorney General’s Office and WKU a chance to argue why the case should or should not be…