Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-Kentucky Insurance CFO Gets 37 Months for Embezzlement, Tax Evasion
Feb 15 2018 // A former chief financial officer of a Louisville insurance company has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for tax evasion and embezzlement. A federal judge ordered 63-year-old Sylvia R. Smith to pay $674,093 in...
Heavy Rains Cause Flooding, Mud Slides in Appalachia
Feb 14 2018 // Heavy rains flooded areas and caused mudslides in parts of Appalachia, forcing dozens of people out of their homes and into shelters as the high water closed roads and schools. Kentucky Emergency Management spokeswoman...
State of Emergency Declared from Flooding in Kentucky County
Feb 13 2018 // Flooding brought on by heavy rains in parts of Kentucky have prompted a state of emergency in at least one southeastern county. Media outlets report an emergency declaration was issued for widespread flooding in Harlan...
Study: Black Lung Cases Among Appalachian Coal Miners On the Rise
Feb 13 2018 // A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central Appalachian coalfields. Three clinics in southwestern Virginia identified 416 coal miners with the disease...
Kentucky Advances Legislation Aimed at Revising State’s Medical Malpractice System
Feb 9 2018 // Following up on a big change made last year to Kentucky’s medical malpractice system, state lawmakers are considering a measure that would further alter the process of pursuing lawsuits claiming medical error or...
HVACi Acquires Kentucky-Based Donan Engineering’s HVAC Forensics Division
Feb 8 2018 // HVAC Investigators (HVACi), a national provider of HVAC damage assessments for insurance claims, has acquired Donan Engineering’s HVAC Forensics division, based in Louisville, Ky. The consolidation of two brands in...
Kentucky Accuses Drug Distributor of Helping Fuel Opioid Epidemic
Jan 23 2018 // Kentucky’s attorney general on Monday accused drug distributor McKesson Corp of helping fuel the opioid epidemic by failing to halt shipments of suspiciously large or frequent orders by pharmacies of prescription...
Kentucky Reports $10.5M Returned to Insurance Consumers in 2017
Jan 22 2018 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance’s (DOI) Consumer Protection Division returned over $15 million to Kentucky consumers during 2017, the department said in a statement. Consumers received over $10.5 million in...
Kentucky Highway Deaths Decreased in 2017
Jan 19 2018 // Kentucky has recorded a decrease in highway fatalities for the first time since 2013. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety says initial numbers show 770 highway-related deaths in...
Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Introduced in Kentucky
Jan 17 2018 // Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Kentucky touted its potential as a viable alternative to ease the state’s addiction woes from opioid painkillers. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes joined other...
Winter Storm in Southeast Leads to Icy Roads, Hundreds of Wrecks
Jan 16 2018 // James A. Jones saw enough cars stranded along the icy highway to know it was time to pull over as a winter storm blasted parts of Tennessee and Kentucky with sleet, freezing rain and snow Friday. Jones counted 25 cars...
Kentucky Reports $10.5M Returned to Insurance Consumers in 2017
Jan 11 2018 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance’s (DOI) Consumer Protection Division returned over $15 million to Kentucky consumers during 2017, the department said in a statement. Consumers received over $10.5 million in...
Kentucky Sees Decline in Workplace Accidents, Fatalities
Jan 3 2018 // The Kentucky Labor Cabinet says workplaces in Kentucky have recorded the lowest rate of nonfatal incidents in state history. The most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is for 2016. It says...
Death at Kentucky Ford Truck Plant Under Investigation
Dec 12 2017 // Authorities are investigating the death of a man at a Ford truck plant in Kentucky. Media outlets report that police responded to Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville just before 1 a.m. Saturday. Officers found...
41 Students Injured in Kentucky in Crash Between 3 School Buses
Dec 11 2017 // Officials say 41 students in Kentucky have been injured in a crash involving three school buses. Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Daniel Kemp told news outlets the crash happened Thursday morning on a highway in...
DEA Opens Kentucky Field Office to Target Opioid Abuse
Dec 1 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths. The new Louisville field office will have a special...
Two Injured, Buildings Damaged by Tornadoes in Kentucky
Nov 22 2017 // The National Weather Service says two people were hurt in two moderate tornados in Kentucky. The weather service says both tornados touched down Saturday and were rated EF-1. The first happened shortly before 3:30 p.m. CST...
Lexington Joins 30 Other Kentucky Cities in Opioid Addiction Lawsuit
Nov 13 2017 // A Kentucky city is suing more than a dozen drug manufacturers and distributors to recoup the escalating cost of dealing with drug addiction. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the city of Lexington filed a federal lawsuit...
Kentucky Accuses Endo of Contributing to Opioid Epidemic
Nov 8 2017 // Kentucky accused units of Endo International Plc on Monday of contributing to drug overdoses and an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing its painkiller Opana ER, the latest lawsuit by state or local governments against...
Kentucky Emergency Management Building Badly Damaged by Fire
Nov 1 2017 // A fire has significantly damaged the emergency dispatch and ambulance services building in a Kentucky county. Elliott County Emergency Management director Jim Skaggs tells news outlets the fire started on Monday sometime...
