Nine Amish men in Kentucky who refused to display an orange reflective triangle on their horse-drawn buggies have been ordered to jail for not paying court-imposed fines. The men belong to the ultraconservative Old Order Swartzentruber Amish sect in western …
Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates. Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss costs rates. The new rates mean that the state’s loss cost …
A Kentucky truck driver who was wheeled into surgery for a simple circumcision but awoke without part of his penis has lost his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the urologist who cut off a cancer-riddled section of the organ. A six-man, six-woman …
Opening arguments are scheduled to be heard today in the civil trial of a man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago. A jury was seated in a Shelbyville, Kentucky, courtroom last Thursday in the …
Officials in McCracken County are moving forward with a plan to purchase property from flood victims so that the land won’t be built on again. The McCracken County Fiscal Court voted last week to apply to participate in the Federal …
An Army soldier who filed a lawsuit over the treatment of his wife’s cancer at a military hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky., has reached a settlement with the federal government for $2.15 million. U.S. District Court Judge John Nixon in …
A northern Kentucky county hard hit by spring flooding is receiving nearly $630,000 in federal money to fix damaged roads, parks and buildings. Kathleen Murray, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, says seven Kenton County governments will share the money …
Along a newly paved road at Harless Creek in Kentucky’s Pike County, dozens of new vehicles and a handful of new modular homes point to progress since severe flooding hit the area a year ago. At Raccoon Creek, freshly cut …
A fire chief says a blaze that destroyed a strip mall in central Kentucky was arson. Meade County Fire Chief Larry Naser said investigators have ruled out electrical and mechanical causes and spontaneous combustion. Naser told The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown …
Kentucky police agencies say the commonwealth’s texting-while-driving statute is well intended, but difficult to enforce. The law took effect a year ago, but officers issued only verbal warnings for the first six months. Citations and fines have been handed out …
