Sixth Circuit Orders Tougher Sentence for Rand Paul Attacker
A 30-day prison sentence for the man who attacked Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago is too lenient, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday.
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Trump Orders Student Debt Elimination for Disabled Vets
President Donald Trump signed an order Wednesday canceling the federal student loan debt of thousands of permanently disabled veterans after addressing the 75th annual AMVETS convention in Kentucky.
Read moreKentucky Lt. Gov. Files Suit Against Governor Over Staffing Decisions
Kentucky’s lieutenant governor sued her boss today, claiming that Gov. Matthew Bevin lacks authority to hire and fire her staff members.
Read moreKentucky Defends Abortion Clinic Transfer Rule in Sixth Circuit
An attorney for the state of Kentucky argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday to reinstate a statute requiring abortion clinics to maintain transfer agreements with local hospitals, while a lawyer for one clinic said the rule effectively bans the procedure statewide.
Read moreJudge Sues
Kentucky Circuit Court Judge Beth L. Maze, who has faced several ethics charges, claims the Kentucky Court of Justice Judicial Conduct Commission is illegally trying to remove her from office.
Read more1 Dead, 5 Injured, 7 Missing in Kentucky Pipeline Explosion
A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.
Read moreProsecutors Seeks Harsher Sentence for Rand Paul Attacker
Federal prosecutors argued before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to lengthen the prison sentence of the man who attacked U.S. Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago.
Read moreJudge Dismisses $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Washington Post
A federal judge in Kentucky dismissed a $250 million libel and defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding that the newspaper’s coverage of a January incident between a high school student and an American Indian activist was not defamatory in any way.
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Ham Breakfast Is Not a Constitutional Right
Civil rights protesters who were arrested and ejected from a ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair were not denied their First Amendment rights, the Sixth Circuit ruled this week.
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Marine Veteran Will Challenge Mitch McConnell for Senate Seat
Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Read moreFire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With Bourbon Barrels
A fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon, sending flames shooting into the night sky and generating so much heat that firetruck lights melted, authorities said Wednesday.
Read moreKentucky Students Lose Appeal in Chickenpox Vaccination Case
More than two dozen Catholic school students and their parents have lost their initial appeal in challenging a Kentucky health department’s efforts to control a chickenpox outbreak they claim infringed on their religious beliefs.
Read moreSixth Circuit Upholds Kentucky Campaign-Finance Limits
A Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday unanimously upheld several of Kentucky’s campaign-finance restrictions and ethics laws, reversing a decision that found the limits placed an unconstitutional burden on politicians.
Read moreOwners of Derby Horse Sue to Overturn Disqualification
The owners of Maximum Security, the horse controversially disqualified from this year’s Kentucky Derby, brought a federal lawsuit against the state’s Horse Racing Commission seeking to restore the horse’s victory.
Read moreFederal Judge Strikes Down Kentucky Abortion Law
A federal judge in Kentucky struck down a state law Friday barring abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy without first terminating the fetus, finding that the law is unconstitutional and essentially a de facto abortion ban.
Read moreKentucky Rehab
The Kentucky Court of Appeals revived claims against a Christian drug and alcohol rehab center that requires residents to participate in Christian programming, do chores and abstain from getting pregnant.
Read more60 People Charged in Illegal Prescription Opioid Crackdown
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 moreFBI Rejects Young Man’s Claim to Be Long-Missing Boy
A 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 moreSixth Circuit Lifts Block of Kentucky Ultrasound Abortion Law
Reversing 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.
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