Category Archives: Kentucky News
Former teacher sentenced to 10 years in bathroom recordings
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) - A former Kentucky teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for placing a video recorder in a bathroom at a high school. News outlets report the sentencing Friday for Mark Bo...
Jul 20, 2020
Kentucky secretary of state wants volunteers for polls
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams says there is a shortage of poll workers, and he wants to change that before the November election. Adams' office said in a news release...
Jul 20, 2020
Friday virus update ; 531 new cases, 8 deaths
As of 4 p.m. July 17, Gov. Beshear said there were at least 21,605 coronavirus cases in Kentucky, 531 of which were newly reported Friday. "So the world that we have these 531 cases from is a world th...
Jul 17, 2020
Kentucky Supreme Court rules Beshear's orders can't be blocked
Kentucky's highest court on Friday blocked lower courts from suspending the governor's emergency orders related to the coronavirus pandemic pending its own review. The state Supreme Court stepped into...
Jul 17, 2020 FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, left, talks about the role of attorney general in Frankfort, Ky., shortly before Daniel Cameron, right, is sworn in as Kentucky's attorney general. Partisan bickering is nothing new in Kentucky, but tensions are ratcheting up as coronavirus cases continue to rise. Beshear, a Democrat, is fending off legal challenges from Cameron, a Republican, over his executive actions during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner, File)
Former Miss Kentucky sentenced for exchanging explicit photos with student
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A former Miss Kentucky who admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student when she was working as a West Virginia school teacher has been sentenced to prison. New...
Jul 17, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2014 file photo, Miss Kentucky Ramsey Carpenter participates in the Miss America Shoe Parade at the Atlantic City boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. Bearse, crowned Miss Kentucky in 2014 under her maiden name of Carpenter, who admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student when she was working as a West Virginia school teacher, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. She was also sentenced to an additional 10 years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender for life, according to Kanawha Assistant Prosecutor Meshell Jarrett. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Jerry Lundergan sentenced to 21 months in prison
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -A federal judge has sentenced Kentucky businessman and Democrat Party stalwart Jerry Lundergan to 21 months in prison. Lundergan is the father of former Kentucky Secretary of Stat...
Jul 17, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo, Jerry Lundergan, father of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, leaves the federal courthouse with his attorney Whitney True Lawson, in Lexington, Ky. Kentucky businessman and Democrat Party stalwart Jerry Lundergan, 73, was sentenced on Thursday, July 16, 2020, to 21 months in prison for making illegal contributions to the failed U.S. Senate campaign of his daughter. (AP Photo/Adam Beam, File)
KSP troopers fatally shoot Shepherdsville man after long standoff
Kentucky State Police say troopers fatally shot a man who ended an hourslong standoff with officers by coming out of a residence and refusing orders to drop a gun. A state police statement says Shephe...
Jul 16, 2020
Demonstrators arrested after gathering outside attorney general's home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Police say 87 demonstrators who gathered at the home of Kentucky's attorney general to demand justice for Breonna Taylor have been arrested. News outlets report protesters with ...
Jul 16, 2020 In this image from video, a Louisville Metro Police Department office stands guard outside the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron as protestors sit in his front yard in Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday, July 14, 2020. About two dozen protestors were arrested. Protesters were chanting Breonna Taylor's name as well as calling for justice after the 26-year-old emergency room technician was fatally shot by LMPD in her South End Apartment while police were serving a search warrant. Cameron said he still has no timeline for when his office will conclude its investigation of the case. (Mary Ann Gerth/Courier Journal via AP)
Beshear: Reviving insurance exchange to reap bigger savings
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's governor says relaunching the state's health insurance exchange will result in bigger savings than originally anticipated. Kentuckians now using the federal site to ob...
Jul 14, 2020
Judge: Women can get abortion pill without doctor visits
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - A federal judge has agreed to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill. U.S. D...
Jul 14, 2020