On Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at approximately 8:47 p.m., Kentucky State Police Post 13 in Hazard was contacted by the Hazard Police Department requesting assistance with an incident involving an officer discharging his firearm. Kentucky State Police officers and detectives responded to the scene, and discovered that HPD Patrolman Adam Baker was investigating a...
By ROGER ALFORD Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Despite a string of passionate appeals, the Democratic majority in the Kentucky House refused Thursday to change a proposed legislative redistricting plan that hits GOP lawmakers especially hard. The House voted 63-34, largely along party lines, to approve the divisive proposal after rejecting a GOP- generated...
By ROGER ALFORD Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) A private Appalachian university’s proposal to use coal tax money to give more mountain kids an opportunity to attend college would be only the latest of several initiatives to build “intellectual capital” in the impoverished region where residents often are stereotyped as uneducated and unsophisticated. University...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The owners of an Indiana amusement park are expressing interest in operating Kentucky Kingdom, which closed more than two years ago. A statement issued Monday night by the Koch family, which owns Holiday World in Santa Claus, Ind., said they have “expressed interest” in the future of the park, according...
By Bruce Schreiner Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Powerful spring-like storms lashed portions of Kentucky with fierce winds Tuesday, uprooting trees and yanking down power lines that clogged roads and left thousands without electricity. Two tractor-trailers overturned on a Louisville-area highway during the storm, and one of the drivers told authorities that high winds...
