Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said his office will take legal action to get judicial guidance on how to handle the reassignment of dozens of voters on the Jefferson-Oldham County line. Yates, a Democrat, plans to file a Petition for a Declaration of Rights, a Wednesday morning press release said. With that action, the Franklin […]
Kentucky Educational Television’s executive director and CEO is retiring at the end of the year after leading the statewide public television network for nearly 17 years. KET CEO and executive director Shae Hopkins served in various management positions over her four decades at the network including as the Deputy Director of Programming, Production and Education, […]
Kentucky’s Judicial Conduct Commission has publicly reprimanded a judge it says presided over a hearing featuring testimony from a witness with whom the judge had a “close personal relationship.” According to the Tuesday notice of reprimand, District Court Judge Brittany McKenna resigned on April 2. She also “fully cooperated in the matter, agreed to this […]
President Donald Trump has nominated a circuit judge to become a federal judge for the U.S. Eastern District of Kentucky.
Jefferson County Clerk David Yates told lawmakers Tuesday that as a result of a review of registered voters’ information after a “clerical error” prevented a handful of voters from casting a ballot in the correct precinct, about 290 voters on the county line must now vote in Jefferson County rather than a surrounding county.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals is allowing a class action lawsuit to move forward against a shuttered Scott County landfill that local residents have lodged complaints against for years over allegations of pervasive and noxious odors coming from the site. In an Aug. 7 decision, Court of Appeals Judge Will Moynahan wrote Scott County Circuit […]
The best protection against measles is the measles vaccination, which is generally available at pharmacies and through medical providers.
For 10 years, I was a certified foster parent in Kentucky. I recently closed my home, but one lesson still defies common sense: Kentucky has somehow made adopting one of its own waiting children harder than adopting a waiting child from another state. The Kentucky Adoption Profile Exchange, or KAPE, is supposed to find permanent […]
During a press conference earlier this month, Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stood firm behind the power of his executive order he issued seeking to limit the impacts of data centers eyeing Kentucky. “The executive order is fully enforceable, and if you don’t believe it, watch me,” Beshear told reporters. “Watch what happens as we […]
A 21-year-old Louisville woman was detained by federal immigration officials when she attended an interview last week for her marriage-based immigration application to get a green card.
As temperatures in western Kentucky soar and heat indices climb above 100 degrees across the region, residents of Campus Evolution Villages in Murray say broken air conditioning units, water leaks …
For the first time since The Murray Bank was founded in 1999, a woman will serve on its board of directors. The board unanimously voted in July to add Eleshia Brandon, a longtime bank employee …
Murray State University’s acting director of Human Resources submitted her resignation earlier this month after refusing to deliver a letter placing the university’s procurement director on paid …
Shortly after 5 p.m. today, the Murray Police Department was dispatched to a residence at the end of Sunset Drive after receiving reports that a man shot his wife, according to scanner traffic …
Kentuckian and conservative political commentator Scott Jennings may soon be facing a defamation lawsuit. Hasan Piker, a progressive Twitch streamer who often discusses politics, told Status, a media news site, that he and his legal team were preparing a defamation lawsuit against Jennings and Salem Media, the company that syndicates Jennings’ radio show. Last week, […]
When Kentucky’s biggest data center project eyes a former steel mill in Eastern Kentucky, and one of the few remaining aluminum smelters in the United States is sold for conversion into a data center, it may sound like reuse and reinvestment. But for workers, manufacturers, and Kentucky families who are already navigating rising electric bills, […]
Editor’s Note: Data center news is coming at us every day. This is the first in an occasional series of stories to keep Lantern readers up to date on the big and small events of an issue that could affect every region of the state. Louisville passed a data center pause, where a data center […]
Considered severely mentally ill, the young woman from Frankfort has spiraled downward since adolescence. Now 22, she has had multiple encounters with police, been diagnosed with illness ranging from schizophrenia to psychosis and, in the past four years, has been hospitalized on emergency court orders 20 times—with stays ranging from one to 27 days. She […]
LEXINGTON — There was one elephant in the room during the Kentucky Democrats’ dinner Saturday evening — the upcoming primary for governor. U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey noted to the sold-out room that he had to speak between the two Democratic candidates — Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and Rocky Adkins, a former adviser to Gov. Andy Beshear. “Awkward!” McGarvey […]
Diane Floyd said she was watching her husband’s music show earlier this month when she got a message over Facebook. It was from Brian Luftman, the founder of American Farm Investors, one of the companies trying to bring a hyperscale data center to Mercer County. Luftman threatened to publish a picture of her 2023 mugshot […]