Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lexington, Ky. Airport Named as Third-Party Defendant
May 25 2007 // In Kentucky, Comair has filed a third-party complaint against Blue Grass Airport, where one of the airline’s planes crashed last year, killing 49 people. The complaint was filed in a lawsuit that was brought by the...
Kentucky Coal Boss Agrees to Post Bond for Future Safety Fines
May 24 2007 // An eastern Kentucky coal operator sued by the federal government for failing to pay penalties over health and safety violations has agreed to post a bond to ensure payment of future fines. Stanley Osborne, head of Misty...
Widows, Survivor of Explosion Sue Ky. Mine Owner, Pa. Company
May 23 2007 // A mine supervisor and a coal company put production over safety prior to an underground explosion last year that killed five miners, relatives and the sole survivor alleged Monday in a lawsuit. The lawsuit cited numerous...
Ky. Chicken Processing Plant Resumes Operations
May 23 2007 // Operations have resumed at a chicken processing plant in western Kentucky where work was suspended last week after an inspection. The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection raised an unspecified concern at Perdue...
Kentucky Chicken Plant Shut Down After Inspection
May 21 2007 // Work was suspended after an inspection at a western Kentucky chicken processing facility that prepared chicken served to Queen Elizabeth II recently, officials said. The suspension happened last week after a U.S....
Ky. Air Controllers, Rocket Club Clashing over Launches
May 18 2007 // A local model rocket club had permission to launch rockets into airspace near Lexington, Ky.’s Blue Grass Airport, but future launches could be in doubt over safety concerns. Air traffic around the airport had to be...
Federal Officials Fine Ky. Mine Operator for Safety Violations
May 15 2007 // A southeastern Kentucky coal mine operator was fined $761,000 by federal regulators for safety violations found during a recent inspection. Stillhouse Mining LLC, an operator in Harlan County, was fined for four...
Mountaintop Mining Becomes Issue in Kentucky Governor’s Race
May 10 2007 // Removing Kentucky mountaintops in search of coal is a noisy, jarring process. Warning sirens blare, followed by massive explosions that shake the earth and propel broken rocks skyward. Bulldozers rumble across parched...
Ky. Gov. Declares State of Emergency Following Severe Weather
Apr 30 2007 // Kentucky storms that caused flooding, mudslides, power outages, damages to public and private property and road closures prompted Gov. Ernie Fletcher to declare a state of emergency. The severe weather which spread across...
Feds Review Locating Homeland Security Facility in Kentucky
Apr 30 2007 // A Kentucky-Tennessee consortium advanced efforts to attract the proposed federal National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to Pulaski County, Ky., meeting with a delegation of U. S. Department of Homeland Security and U. S....
Westfield Insurance Recognized for Political Involvement in Kentucky
Apr 17 2007 // Westfield Insurance and its employees have been recognized for their political and community involvement by the commonwealth of Kentucky and by the Showalter Group, winning an award for innovative grassroots...
Kentucky Enhances Safety for Social Workers
Apr 6 2007 // Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher said he will sign a bill aimed at improving safety conditions for social workers that was passed in reaction to the slaying of a social worker in western Kentucky, his administration said. The...
Faulty Bolt Caused Train Crash That Ignited Kentucky Toxic Blaze
Apr 5 2007 // A train derailment that ignited a large, toxic blaze that forced residents near Louisville, Kentucky from their homes for days was caused by a broken bolt, the rail company said this week. The National Transportation...
Kentucky Coal Mine Widows Prove Powerful as Lobbyists
Apr 4 2007 // Claudia Cole would have considered herself an unlikely person to be a lobbyist in the state Capitol. She preferred the simple life of wife and mother. But when her husband was killed in a Kentucky coal mine, the country...
Kentucky Mine Owner Pleads Guilty to Workers Comp Fraud
Apr 3 2007 // Harold Simpson, owner and operator of Simpson Mining Co. in Perry County, Ky., pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court after special investigators with Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance discovered...
Kentucky Competes for Captives, Follows Workers’ Comp Closely
Mar 20 2007 // With “firm but flexible regulation” in place, Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak says her state is an attractive draw for the captive insurance market and she hopes to encourage continued broad...
Ky. Senate Approves Bill that Oversees Coal Plant Sites
Mar 12 2007 // The process for deciding where coal gasification plants can be built in Kentucky would be streamlined under a bill that received final passage by the state Senate last week. The bill allows proposed coal or biomass...
Julie Mix McPeak, Kentucky, Executive Director, Office of Insurance
Mar 12 2007 // Julie Mix McPeak, an attorney with more than a decade of experience in state government, was appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance (KOI) by Gov. Ernie Fletcher last June. McPeak succeeded Glenn...
Kentucky Guardsmen, Emergency Teams Practice Earthquake Drills
Mar 6 2007 // National Guardsmen and emergency management officials in 13 western Kentucky counties spent last week responding to an earthquake that hadn’t actually occurred. The exercise simulated response to a magnitude 7.5...
Nobody Hurt in Kentucky Insurance Agency Drive-Thru
Feb 22 2007 // An 84-year-old man plowed his car into a western Kentucky insurance agency office where he was planning to pay his bill. Leonard G. Rickman, of Paducah, pulled into a parking lot of the State Farm Insurance office shortly...
