Kentucky News

VIRGIE - Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday that legalizing casinos remains a possibility in Kentucky even though lawmakers rejected the idea earlier this year.

A judge has ordered family members of 49 victims killed in a 2006 Kentucky plane crash to meet separately with Comair officials to discuss a settlement.

The Kentucky State Police are currently investigating a series of thefts in the Pendleton, Bracken, and Robertson counties involving catalytic converters.

Governor Steve Beshear said legalizing casinos remains a possibility in Kentucky even though lawmakers rejected the idea earlier this year.

A grand jury has decided not to indict a Bowling Green man who shot and killed a teenager who was trying to break into his home.

Alex Day Gov. Beshear recognized the death of a Kentuckian who died supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Hundreds of workers at a central Kentucky plant will be laid off as a result of a delay in Ford's launch of its new F-150 truck.

Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a campaign donor convicted in 1990 of misdemeanor attempted jury tampering to two state boards including one for Kentucky crime victims.

A Kentucky jury has convicted a man charged with killing a small town police chief.

U.S. Interior Department officials "are very upset" a plane scheduled to fly Congressmen Norm Dicks and Ben Chandler on a tour of mountaintop removal sites could not take off Saturday after the pilot left a ...

The pastor of a Kentucky church that handles snakes in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife officers in a crackdown on the venomous snake trade.

Newly released surveillance videos provide a glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead last month.

Gov. Steve Beshear said he will seek legislation authorizing an "In God We Trust" auto license plate when lawmakers return to Frankfort early next year.

" A Northern Kentucky public health agency has given up control of a Web site promoting a regional public smoking ban.

A former Oregon man accused of killing his four children and attacking his wife in Louisville nearly two years ago shows signs of schizophrenia and is delusional, a psychologist said Monday.

LEXINGTON - A federal judge signed off Monday on a sweeping plan for the state to provide services to thousands of Kentuckians with intellectual disabilities.

A long-running legal battle over services that advocates say the state should provide to people with mental retardation may be about to conclude successfully.

" It's French fries - no, make that egg rolls. Wherever "Big Brown Betty" goes, the rusty 1985 Ford truck leaves the hot smell of deep-fried food in her wake.

Lexington police said officers shot and wounded a man who refused to drop a rifle during a domestic disturbance.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Financial aid for needy Kentuckians is not keeping pace with the rising cost of tuition at the state's public universities -- a trend that's alarming higher education officials.