Police in Kentucky on Monday said a 21-year-old student was arrested and charged with murdering his wrestling teammate at Campbellsville University. Campbellsville Police said authorities took Charles Escalera into custody Saturday after finding him hiding out in a barn near the Green County and Taylor County line. He’s being held at the Taylor County Detention […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gay rights advocates pushed back Wednesday against a Republican-sponsored measure to broaden Kentucky’s religious freedom law, claiming it threatens to undermine community-level “fairness ordinances” meant to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination. The measure, House Bill 47, won approval from the House Judiciary Committee, but some supporters signaled a willingness to make revisions […]
The United Auto Workers have reached a deal with Ford over a local contract at its Louisville, Kentucky, truck plant, the union announced Wednesday. The UAW said the new agreement addresses many of the demands of the Kentucky employees and will avert a strike this week. “Workers at Ford’s most profitable plant were set to […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the steps of the Kentucky Capitol to protest a looming tax increase on the spirits industry. On Tuesday, industry leaders reassembled with a bipartisan group of Kentucky leaders to toast the bourbon sector’s record growth. Kentucky’s bourbon industry pumps $9 billion into the […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s juvenile justice system has lingering problems with the use of force and isolation techniques and has done little to implement a 2017 state audit’s suggestions for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday. The new report from Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball says the state’s juvenile detention centers lack clear policies concerning […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky gun shop that sold an AR-15 to a man who used it to kill five co-workers and wrote in his journal the gun was “so easy” to buy is facing a lawsuit filed Monday from survivors and families of the victims. The civil suit filed in Louisville alleges River City […]
Two teenage girls held at a troubled Kentucky juvenile detention center were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions, including a padded cell with no toilet, a federal class-action lawsuit filed this week alleges. Source link
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