Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Nursing Home Industry Seeks Less Regulation
Oct 14 2015 // Kentucky’s nursing home industry is seeking relief from what it calls heavy-handed state oversight even though a recent review found multiple instances where its residents have been mistreated. The review by The...
Kentucky Traffic Deaths on the Rise
Oct 12 2015 // Kentucky officials say statewide traffic deaths are on the rise so far in 2015. There were 549 fatalities as of Oct. 6 – 58 more than at the same time last year, according to preliminary numbers from the Kentucky Office...
Kentucky Considering Roadside Drug Tests for Drivers
Oct 5 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel. The agency and...
Kentucky Judge Says Attorney’s Traffic School Can’t Dismiss 2,300 Cases
Oct 2 2015 // A Kentucky district court judge is challenging a county attorney’s revenue-generating traffic school in the state. Kentucky news outlets report Judge Sean Delahanty is opposed to the operation of Jefferson County...
Kentucky Considering Roadside Drug Tests for Drivers
Sep 25 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel. The agency and...
AssuredPartners Expands Kentucky Presence With Western Rivers Acquisition
Sep 15 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc., has acquired Western Rivers Insurance of Paducah, Kentucky and Insurance Center of Murray, Kentucky. The agency’s 22 employees will continue to operate from their current location under the...
Kentucky Student Charged After Drone Crashes into Stadium
Sep 14 2015 // University of Kentucky campus police have charged law student Peyton Wilson with second degree wanton endangerment for operating a drone that crashed into a section of Commonwealth Stadium before the Wildcats’...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
Kentucky Stretch of Mississippi River Reopens After Oil Spill
Sep 8 2015 // A 17-mile stretch of Mississippi River in Kentucky has reopened with restrictions after it was closed following a collision between two tow boats that spilled more than 120,000 gallons of oil into the waterway, the U.S....
Kentucky Finalizing Ignition Interlock Law for DUI Drivers
Sep 4 2015 // Kentucky transportation officials say the state is getting close to finalizing details of a new law that will require some drunken drivers to get ignition interlock devices on their vehicles. Transportation Cabinet...
Kentucky Supreme Court Reinstates Jury Award to Former Track Coach
Aug 28 2015 // The Kentucky Supreme Court has reinstated a jury’s $300,000 award to a former Louisville, Ky., assistant track coach who claimed she was fired for filing a sexual harassment complaint. The Supreme Court said on...
Revised Kentucky Accident Victim Solicitation Law Under Fire, Again
Aug 24 2015 // A Kentucky law revision limiting the solicitation of accident victims within 30 days of a crash has gone into effect but is already being challenged in the state by multiple chiropractic groups that say the law is...
Study: Kentucky’s Medicaid Population Centered in Impoverished East Region
Aug 21 2015 // A new review by a nonprofit health organization shows that the largest share of Kentucky’s Medicaid population lives in the impoverished eastern portion of the state. The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has...
Car-Swallowing Sinkhole Fixed but Not Forgotten at Kentucky Corvette Museum
Aug 20 2015 // The car-swallowing hole has been fixed but not forgotten at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Yellow tape now marks the boundaries of the cavity that became a sensation and put the museum on the map. And instead of...
Kentucky’s Revised Accident Victim Anti-Solicitation Law Under Fire, Again
Aug 17 2015 // A Kentucky law revision limiting the solicitation of accident victims within 30 days of a crash has gone into effect but is already being challenged in the state by multiple chiropractic groups that say the law is...
Whistleblower Lawsuit Accuses Kentucky 911 Dispatchers of Abuse, Sleeping on Job
Aug 7 2015 // Two Boone County, Kentucky, emergency dispatch workers have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the county, accusing a supervisor and co-worker of using abusive language to minority callers and sleeping on duty. The...
200 Kentucky DUI Cases in Jeopardy After Suspension of Breathalyzer Operator
Aug 3 2015 // More than 200 drunken-driving cases could be in jeopardy after officials said a former breath test operator for Louisville’s corrections department was suspended after allegations that she lied on a report and in...
Study: Kentucky Prescription Drug Law Successfully Curbing Abuse
Jul 30 2015 // Prescriptions for painkillers and doctor-shopping by pill seekers have decreased since Kentucky passed legislation targeting prescription drug abuse, according to a University of Kentucky study. The law passed during a...
Multi-State Cargo Theft Ring Busted in Indiana; 8 Charged
Jul 29 2015 // Eight individuals have been charged in a 23-count indictment in an organized scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars in merchandise from shipments of cargo moving through the state of Indiana and elsewhere, United...
12 Injured in Kentucky Amusement Park Ride Accident
Jul 29 2015 // Authorities say at least 12 people were injured when a swing ride at an amusement park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, tipped over. The Daily News reports emergency officials were dispatched to Beech Bend Amusement Park around...
