Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other drugs.
Read moreA young man’s claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved.
Read moreReversing a federal judge, a divided Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the patient is constitutional.
Read moreA legislative amendment that allows minor parties to establish caucus campaign committees moots a challenge to Kentucky’s campaign-finance laws brought by a Libertarian candidate, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
Read moreA 14-year-old boy who said he escaped from two kidnappers in Ohio and fled across a bridge to Kentucky told authorities he is an Illinois boy who went missing nearly eight years ago.
Read moreA Kentucky high school senior who refuses to be immunized against chickenpox can be banned from returning to school, a state judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge struck down the work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky on Wednesday, effectively blocking the Trump administration’s plan to revamp the country’s healthcare program for the poor.
Read moreAs March Madness sweeps the nation, a federal judge Wednesday rejected the claims of a college basketball referee who blamed a Kentucky sports radio station for a barrage of fan harassment, finding that the station’s speech was protected.
Read moreKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview that he deliberately exposed his children to chickenpox so they would catch the highly contagious disease and become immune.
Read moreFormer coal miner John Robinson’s bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction by Congress and the Trump administration. Amid the turmoil of the government shutdown this winter, a tax on coal that helps pay for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund was cut sharply Jan. 1 and never restored, potentially saving coal companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Read moreKentucky’s last remaining abortion clinic filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new bill, expected to become law, banning abortions motivated by a fetus’ sex, race or disability.
Read moreThe Kentucky Catholic school student who was filmed staring down a Native American activist at a March for Life rally last month filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post, claiming it rushed to assassinate his character.
Read moreA class of horse buyers claims several Kentucky veterinarians altered x-rays and then destroyed the medical records to conceal the true condition of horses sold at auction at the world-renowned Keeneland Racecourse.
Read moreFormer Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday to dismiss claims brought by a pair of gay couples to whom she refused to issue marriage licenses after the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
Read moreThrowing out an $870 million verdict against PokerStars, an appeals court ruled Friday that the state of Kentucky should not have been allowed to sue on behalf of players who lost money.
Read moreA Kentucky writer claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that Disney infringed on his unproduced screenplay when it published Stan Lee’s young adult book series “Zodiac Legacy.”
Read moreA $444 million plan to build a new federal prison in a sensitive region of Appalachia ravaged by coal-mining operations drew a lawsuit Monday from 21 inmates.
Read moreThe leader of a conservative group in Kentucky said Friday that while he is disappointed with the decision, he wasn’t surprised when a judge ruled this week that wagering on historical horse-racing machines is legal under state law.
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