Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Sentences Amish Men Over Safety Violation
Sep 14 2011 // Nine Amish men in Kentucky who refused to display an orange reflective triangle on their horse-drawn buggies have been ordered to jail for not paying court-imposed fines. The men belong to the ultraconservative Old Order...
Indiana Stage Collapse Prompts Safety Review by Kentucky Bluegrass Festival
Sep 13 2011 // Officials with the International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, are considering more safety measures as it plans for future music festivals. Daviess County leaders met with museum officials last week to begin...
KEMI to Offer Preferred Program to the Kentucky Restaurant Association
Sep 2 2011 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI) and the Kentucky Restaurant Association (KRA) have launched a new workers’ compensation program. KEMI is partnering with KRA to make workers’ comp benefits...
Ohio Says Kentucky Agent Used Fake Names, Revokes License
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law. Sharp wrote...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Rates Continue to Drop
Aug 29 2011 // Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates. Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss...
Kentucky Jury Sides with Doctor In Penis Amputation Malpractice Claim
Aug 26 2011 // A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis has lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the...
Kentucky Supreme Court Asked to Review Damages for Fetus Death
Aug 24 2011 // The Kentucky Supreme Court is being asked to review a lawsuit seeking damages for the death of an early-term fetus in a car crash. The lawsuit was brought by Thomas A. Stevens on behalf of his 24-year-old daughter, Desiree...
Kentucky Malpractice Trial Over Amputated Penis Opens
Aug 22 2011 // Opening arguments are scheduled to be heard today in the civil trial of a man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago. A jury was seated in a Shelbyville, Kentucky, courtroom last Thursday in the...
Kentucky Officials Mull Buying Flood Victims’ Properties
Aug 16 2011 // Officials in McCracken County are moving forward with a plan to purchase property from flood victims so that the land won’t be built on again. The McCracken County Fiscal Court voted last week to apply to participate...
$2.1 Million Settlement Reached in Kentucky Military Malpractice Claim
Aug 10 2011 // An Army soldier who filed a lawsuit over the treatment of his wife’s cancer at a military hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky., has reached a settlement with the federal government for $2.15 million. U.S. District Court...
Kentucky County Receiving Flood Assistance
Aug 8 2011 // A northern Kentucky county hard hit by spring flooding is receiving nearly $630,000 in federal money to fix damaged roads, parks and buildings. Kathleen Murray, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, says seven...
One Year Later, Hard Times for Kentucky Flood Victims
Jul 26 2011 // Along a newly paved road at Harless Creek in Kentucky’s Pike County, dozens of new vehicles and a handful of new modular homes point to progress since severe flooding hit the area a year ago. At Raccoon Creek,...
Kentucky Strip Mall Fire Deemed Arson
Jul 20 2011 // A fire chief says a blaze that destroyed a strip mall in central Kentucky was arson. Meade County Fire Chief Larry Naser said investigators have ruled out electrical and mechanical causes and spontaneous combustion. Naser...
Kentucky Murder Plea
Jul 18 2011 // An attorney for Steve Nunn said the former state lawmaker has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-fiance and has received a sentence of life without parole. Nunn entered the plea in Fayette Circuit Court in Lexington,...
Kentucky Police Say Texting While Driving Law Tough to Enforce
Jul 7 2011 // Kentucky police agencies say the commonwealth’s texting-while-driving statute is well intended, but difficult to enforce. The law took effect a year ago, but officers issued only verbal warnings for the first six...
Amish Men Appeal Safety Lights Conviction to Kentucky High Court
Jul 5 2011 // Nine Amish men from western Kentucky have asked the state Supreme Court to overturn their convictions for failing to display bright safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies. The men’s lawyers filed the appeal...
Kentucky Ex-Lawmaker Nunn Pleads Guilty in Insurance Worker Murder
Jun 29 2011 // An attorney for Steve Nunn says the former state lawmaker has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-fiance and has received a sentence of life without parole. Nunn entered the plea Tuesday morning in Fayette Circuit Court in...
Kentucky’s Churchill Downs Assessing Tornado Damage
Jun 24 2011 // A possible tornado damaged several horse barns at Churchill Downs, prompting track officials to temporarily halt races Thursday at the famed Kentucky Derby horse track. Some horses have been moved to private farms,...
3 Men Rescued from Collapsed Kentucky Mine
Jun 22 2011 // Three men who spent more than half a day trapped underground in a flooded southeastern Kentucky coal mine waded out and were on their way home after just a quick hospital evaluation. Relief was on the faces of Pernell...
Kentucky County Halts Program for Uninsured Drivers
Jun 14 2011 // Judges in Kentucky’s Jefferson County have stopped a program giving drivers without insurance a way to avoid a hefty fine because court officials say it nearly impossible to monitor the growing number of...
