Child killed in crash on I-64 in Franklin County
Updated: 10:50 PM Interstate 64 is closed because of a deadly crash. The crash happened just before 9:00 p.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes near mile marker 56 in Franklin County.
Updated: 10:50 PM Interstate 64 is closed because of a deadly crash. The crash happened just before 9:00 p.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes near mile marker 56 in Franklin County.
Updated: 6:43 AM Governor Steve Beshear today ceremonially signed House Bill 172, a measure to encourage schools to keep emergency medication on hand for children who can suffer severe, life-threatening allergic reactions.
Updated: 6:48 AM The Council on Postsecondary Education has capped tuition increases at public colleges and universities at 3 percent.
Updated: 4:49 PM A traffic alert to pass along this afternoon, as deputies tell us a horse trailer has overturned on I-64.
Updated: 4:18 PM Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a union leader to take over as his labor secretary effective May 15.
Posted: 10:12 AM Agriculture Commissioner James Comer will officially launch the Kentucky Proud Farm to Campus program with EKU President Doug Whitlock during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, April 15, at 3 p.m. EDT at the Eastern Kentucky University bookstore in Richmond.
Posted: 7:30 AM When Frankfort lawmakers discuss parties, they're not always referring to the Democratic and Republican varieties.
Posted: 1:28 PM Agriculture Commissioner James Comer credited industrial hemp supporters for encouraging lawmakers and Gov. Steve Beshear to approve historic legislation that will help restore hemp production to Kentucky.
Updated: 8:04 AM A former corrections officer in Frankfort and his wife have been charged with illegally using food stamps that belong to someone else.
Posted: 8:34 AM The Kentucky Department of Agriculture will contract with a private fuel testing laboratory to test motor fuel samples and will shut down its motor fuel and pesticide testing lab in Frankfort, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer announced today.
Updated: 4:07 PM An appeals court judge has been tapped to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Supreme Court, a move that gives the high court three female justices among the seven members for the first time ever.
Posted: 11:31 AM Frankfort police say they have arrested a man accused of stealing a car and striking its owner in his attempt to get away.
Updated: 10:42 PM Rumors circulating that Ashley Judd, a well-known actress with Kentucky roots would run for U.S. Senate were put to a stop Wednesday.
Updated: 11:07 PM Lawmakers in Kentucky have passed legislation lifting a Prohibition-era ban on the sale of alcohol at restaurants, bars and retail stores on Election Day.
Posted: 10:08 PM Lawmakers were continuing work into the final hours of the 2013 legislative session to pass a bill that would allow Kentucky to quickly license hemp growers if the federal government ever lifts a ban on the crop.
Updated: 7:34 AM A funding plan intended to restore solvency to Kentucky's pension plans for government retirees has cleared the House and Senate and now goes to Gov. Steve Beshear to be signed into law.
Updated: 11:10 PM Gov. Steve Beshear has signed a bill that will strengthen Kentucky's human trafficking law by increasing punishments for offenders and bolstering protections for victims.
