Latest Kentucky Headlines
All the headlines from our Kentucky Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Governor Promoting New Drug Law for Miners
Jun 21 2012 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is promoting a newly passed law that permanently revokes the credentials of miners who fail drug tests. Beshear was in Pikeville on Tuesday where he said the law sends a clear message that drug...
Lawsuit Claims Driver in Kentucky Tour Bus Crash ‘Crazed,’ Speeding
Jun 20 2012 // A lawsuit filed over the wreck of a tour bus in south-central Kentucky this month contends the driver was operating the bus in a “crazed” manner, had been consuming high-energy drinks and was driving too fast...
Lawsuit Filed Over Kentucky Tour Bus Wreck
Jun 19 2012 // A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three students who were in tour bus crash in south-central Kentucky last week minutes into a trip to Washington, D.C. WBKO-TV in Bowling Green reported that the lawsuit in Hart County...
Kentucky’s April Hail Storm Cost Insurers $175 Million: Verisk
Jun 18 2012 // A major hail storm in April in Kentucky is estimated to have caused $175 million in insured losses and damages when balls of ice as large as baseballs battered cars and homes and knocked out power to thousands. The PSC...
Western Kentucky Goes from Flood to Drought in Year
Jun 7 2012 // Last year was the wettest on record in Kentucky going back to 1895, bringing widespread flooding last spring in some areas. But state climatologist Stuart Foster says those same parts of the state are currently in...
Kentucky Program Aims to Catch Uninsured Drivers
Jun 4 2012 // Kentucky drivers could see their car registrations cancelled and they could be charged with insurance fraud if they are found to be operating a vehicle without the proper insurance. Under current law, Kentucky drivers must...
Kentucky Coal Mines in Arrears on Safety Fines: Report
May 31 2012 // A published report says Kentucky coal operators owe more in delinquent fines to federal authorities for mine safety violations than any other state. The Courier-Journal said the finding is from an analysis it did of...
Kentucky’s April Hail Storm Cost Insurers $175 Million
May 30 2012 // A major hail storm last month in Kentucky is estimated to have caused $175 million in insured losses and damages when balls of ice as large as baseballs battered cars and homes and knocked out power to thousands. The PSC...
11 States Adopt Plan to Distribute Surplus Lines Premium Taxes
May 25 2012 // States participating in the Non-admitted Insurance Multi-state Agreement, or NIMA, have adopted a premium allocation method for distributing surplus lines premium taxes on casualty insurance. The adopted method aims to...
Kentucky Program Aims to Catch Uninsured Drivers
May 21 2012 // Kentucky drivers could see their car registrations cancelled and they could be charged with insurance fraud if they are found to be operating a vehicle without the proper insurance. Under current law, Kentucky drivers must...
Business Moves – Southeast
May 21 2012 // Nationwide, Harleysville Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. said that the company completed its previously announced $834 million merger deal with Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. The deal was first announced in September...
Women Allege Sexual Bias, Harassment at Kentucky’s Maker’s Mark
May 8 2012 // Five women are suing Maker’s Mark Distillery Inc. in federal court, claiming discrimination and sexual harassment. All of the women have worked on the bottling line, dipping the bottles of bourbon whiskey in red...
Neace Lukens Acquires Kentucky’s Morehead Insurance
May 7 2012 // Louisville, Kentucky-based Neace Lukens, an AssuredPartners, Inc. company, has completed the acquisition of Morehead Insurance, a Scottsville, Kentucky-based independent insurance agency. Located near Bowling Green,...
Kentucky Officials Building Ambu-Buses for Disaster Recovery
May 7 2012 // Behold the ambu-bus. Authorities in Kentucky are making use of old school buses by turning them into ambulances. Each one can carry up to 18 patients, which officials say will be of great help in case of a major accident...
State Not Liable in Informant’s Death: Kentucky Court
May 7 2012 // The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and state police can’t be held liable for the death of an informant killed after a drug buy went awry. Judge Michelle...
Kentucky Business Owner Sues Police Over Raids
May 4 2012 // The owner of a western Kentucky pizza joint and a suntan parlor is suing Hopkinsville police over drug raids at his businesses. Luther Anderson, who owns Pizz-A-Roma and Sunkissed Tanning, which share a building in...
FEMA Reports $18.6 Million in Disaster Aid to Kentucky
Apr 25 2012 // More than $18.6 million in federal disaster assistance has been approved for Kentucky residents who went through the tornadoes and severe storms of late February and early March. The Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Kentucky Amish Buggy Safety Bill Not Yet Law
Apr 6 2012 // Legislation that would give the Amish an immediate exemption from having to attach brightly colored slow-moving-vehicle triangles to their buggies still hasn’t been signed into law. Members of the more conservative...
Judge Denies Kentucky Student’s Damages Claim in Free Speech Case
Apr 5 2012 // A federal judge has ruled that a former University of Louisville nursing student waived her free speech rights by signing an honor code and can’t collect damages after being dismissed from school over a blog...
Inspections Improving Mine Safety, Says U.S. Official
Apr 3 2012 // Aggressive inspections at troubled mines are helping create safer working environments for coal miners, the head of the federal government’s mine safety agency said during a visit to Kentucky. U.S. Mine Safety and...
