Category Archives: Kentucky News
Sheriff: Apparent road rage incident sparks fatal shooting
LONDON, Ky. (AP) - Officials say an apparent road rage incident has sparked a fatal shooting in southern Kentucky. Laurel County Sheriff John Root said in a statement that two drivers exchanged words ...
Jul 31, 2020
Police responding to report of armed person wounds man
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Police say an officer responding to a report of a man with a gun in central Kentucky shot and wounded him. Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers says the officer found a man F...
Jul 31, 2020
Ag officials warn of unsolicited seed shipments to states
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Agriculture officials in multiple states have issued warnings about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them. In Kentucky, the agriculture depa...
Jul 28, 2020
Sen. Rand Paul's attacker receives longer prison sentence
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Sen. Rand Paul's former neighbor has been resentenced to an extra seven months behind bars and six months in home detention for tackling the Kentucky lawmaker over lawn care....
Jul 28, 2020
Kentucky criminal jury trials may resume next week
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court says criminal jury trials may resume next week, but civil jury trials are still a couple of months away. The court also said in an administrative order...
Jul 28, 2020
Father charged with reckless homicide in toddler's death
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky father has been indicted on a reckless homicide charge in the fatal shooting of his 2-year-old son. The News Enterprise reports prosecutor Shane Young presented th...
Jul 28, 2020
Human Remains Discovered in Christian County
Oak Grove, Ky. (Christian County)- The Kentucky State Police Post 2 in Madisonville, were contacted on July 25, 2020 around 9:20 AM by the Christian County Sheriff's Department in reference to possibl...
Jul 26, 2020
KSP Conducts Death Investigation in Fredonia
Fredonia, Ky. (Caldwell County) - On July 24, 2020, detectives from Kentucky State Police Post 2 obtained an arrest warrant for Lawrence Florentine for Murder- Domestic Violence. Florentine was served...
Jul 26, 2020
Kentucky extends contract for help processing jobless claims
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's governor says the state will extend its contract with an outside company hired to help work through a backlog of unemployment claims amid the coronavirus outbreak. Gov...
Jul 26, 2020
Newspaper, Kentucky teen settle lawsuit over D.C. encounter
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky teen and the Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper's coverage of his encounter with a Native American man. This happened at the Lincoln Memorial i...
Jul 26, 2020