Latest Kentucky Headlines
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Kentucky Auditor Announces Investigation of State’s Medical Cannabis Program
Apr 21 2025 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s auditor said Thursday that her office will investigate the state’s medical cannabis program after receiving complaints about the lottery system used to award highly...
Kentucky Tobacco Warehouse Manager Indicted in Crop Insurance Fraud Scheme
Apr 16 2025 // Prosecution of widespread crop insurance fraud in Kentucky has continued with the indictment of a tobacco warehouse manager who allegedly facilitated some of the schemes. Thomas H. Kirkpatrick, manager of Farmers Tobacco...
Inspections of Whiskey Barrels Take Time in Flood Aftermath at Kentucky Distillery
Apr 15 2025 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Signs of renewal are underway at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky since floodwaters that inundated the whiskey-making campus receded. But executives say the painstaking task of inspecting...
Kentucky Cleanup Begins After Surging Rivers Recede
Apr 10 2025 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious Tuesday to return to their flooded homes and assess what’s salvageable, even as stubbornly...
Louisville, Other Parts of Kentucky Brace for More Flooding as Rivers Crest
Apr 8 2025 // The Ohio River is expected to crest Tuesday night at historically high levels, exacerbating flooding that has already swamped hundreds of homes, businesses and restaurants in Louisville and other parts of Kentucky. While...
Kentucky Boy’s Death Raises Questions About Why Schools Weren’t Canceled
Apr 7 2025 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A 9-year-old Kentucky boy who died in floodwaters while walking to catch his school bus was remembered by his classroom teacher as the “sweetest, kindest boy.” The death of Gabriel...
Another Kentucky Farmer Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud
Apr 1 2025 // A Kentucky farmer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal crop insurance program of almost $1.5 million. Robert Thomas Hunt, of Taylor County in central Kentucky, asked grain haulers to sell...
Eight Corvettes Stolen from Kentucky Plant But Found Later, Some with Minor Damage
Mar 27 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said. The cars were...
Kentucky Allows Unlicensed Adjusters in Three Counties After Storms Batter State
Mar 20 2025 // Unlicensed adjusters can work in three Kentucky counties once they register on temporary basis, the state’s insurance commissioner decreed after wind events caused serious damage in the northern part of the...
Kentucky Bill to Trim State OSHA Agency Powers Now on the Governor’s Desk
Mar 18 2025 // The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a non-profit advocacy group, is sounding the alarm about a Kentucky bill that was passed swiftly this month and is now on the governor’s desk. If signed into...
At Least 8 Killed in Kentucky With Heavy Flooding, Winds in Region
Feb 18 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — At least nine people have died in the most recent round of harsh weather to pummel the U.S., including eight people in Kentucky who died as creeks swelled from heavy rain and water covered...
Tornadoes Kill 2, Injure 3 in East Tennessee, With Flooding in WV, Kentucky
Feb 10 2025 // WARTBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Two tornadoes moved through eastern Tennessee, leaving a mother and daughter dead and injuring three other people, officials said Friday. A mother and daughter from the same household were killed...
Jack Daniel’s Parent Firm to Cut Workforce, Close Barrel Plant in Kentucky
Jan 16 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. said Tuesday it’s reducing its global workforce by about 12% and closing its hometown barrel-making plant in Louisville. The cost-cutting moves come as...
Kentucky AG Settles Opioid Suit vs. The Kroger Co. for $110 Million
Jan 13 2025 // Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state’s attorney general said Thursday. The state will use...
Kentucky Supreme Court Overturns Escape Clause Meaning, Affirms Roof Collapse
Dec 23 2024 // Two Kentucky Supreme Court rulings handed down last week emphasize how important it can be to have clearly worded insurance policies, including exclusions and excess and escape clauses, particularly in high-dollar...
Toyota to Add $922M Paint Facility at Large Kentucky Complex
Dec 17 2024 // GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Toyota plans to build a new paint facility as part of a $922 million investment at its factory complex in Georgetown, Kentucky, making it the second big addition announced this year at the...
Worker Rescued From Rubble After Construction Accident in Kentucky
Nov 18 2024 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Firefighters in Kentucky’s largest city rescued a construction worker on a demolition team who fell into a void Thursday and became trapped in rubble, requiring a tedious, hours-long...
Head of Kentucky Plant Says Company Will Cover Damages After Blast
Nov 18 2024 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The president of a Kentucky plant that exploded earlier this week said the company is accountable for the accident and will pay damages to residents affected by the blast. “First and...
Kentucky Factory Neighbors Cite Years of Odors Before Deadly Explosion
Nov 15 2024 // For years, neighbors who lived near a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, complained amongst themselves and to local officials about a variety of strange smells coming from the plant, which produces colorings for food and...
Kentucky Sheriff Charged With Shooting of Judge Inside Courthouse
Sep 20 2024 // A Kentucky judge is dead and the county sheriff is in jail, charged with shooting the judge multiple times Thursday inside the courthouse. Local and national News outlets reported that Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines...
