Kentucky News

One crash in Boone County killed three family members in a pick-up truck last week.

The 8,000 Kentuckians due a 20-week extension of unemployment compensation won't see their checks for at least a month, while a similar number of Hoosiers could start getting their payments as early as next week.

Northern Kentucky University's 10th annual Alumni Lecture Series will tackle the issue of how to govern in today's ever-changing world.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky has borrowed roughly half a billion dollars from the federal government this year to pay benefits to unemployed workers - money the state likely will have to pay back when the economy recovers.

Courts - "Kentucky Appeals court upholds $6.1 million strip-search verdict against McDonald's" Updating this long list of earlier ILB entries , Andrew Wolfson reports in today's LCJ in a lengthy story: The Kentucky Court of Appeals Friday upheld the $6.1 million jury award to strip-search victim Louise Ogborn, saying McDonalda s legal department ...

A veteran from Tennessee who admitted sending child pornography on the Internet and asking two Kentucky women to help set up sexual encounters with children has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison.

FRANKFORT - Despite previous claims, investigators said Friday that bad food wasn't the primary cause of a fiery riot at a central Kentucky prison in August.

Former state representative and one-time gubernatorial candidate Steve Nunn appeared in Hart County Circuit Court in Munfordville on Tuesday morning for arraignment on six counts of first-degree wanton endangerment involving law enforcement officers.

Health officials said Friday a fourth Northern Kentucky resident has died of the flu.

Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country.

Preliminary statistics indicate that twelve people died in eleven separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, November 9 through Sunday, November 15, 2009.

Steve Nunn, the former legislator and one-time candidate for governor, Thursday entered a not guilty plea to charges of murder and violation of an emergency protective order in the death of Nunn's former finance, 29-year-old Amanda Ross.

A Kentucky death row inmate, who once played a role in a controversial clothing advertising campaign featuring condemned inmates, has died 27 years after being sentenced to death.

The family of a Marine from southeastern Kentucky says he has suffered serious injuries while serving in Afghanistan.

Kentucky's Democratic governor and Republican Senate president have offered their views for helping make up the $1 billion projected budget deficit during the next two years.

Police have arrested a woman for allegedly setting forest fires in southeastern Kentucky that burned several acres and put homes in danger.

A Kentucky death row inmate, who once played a role in a controversial clothing advertising campaign featuring condemned inmates, has died 27 years after being sentenced to death.

Unemployed Kentuckians may be eligible for extended unemployment insurance benefits.

Beam Global Spirits & Wine has announced plans to close a Cincinnati bottling plant in 2011 and shift those operations to Kentucky, adding about 120 jobs in Frankfort and Clermont by the end of 2011.

Farmer also offered his own words of thanks, saying it's especially appropriate during a time of year known for bountiful meals.