by Terry DeMio , [email protected] – The Campbell County Detention Center has a new voluntary treatment program for women fighting drug addiction. Most are there for heroin. Liz Dufour NEWPORT – They almost look like members of a club, all wearing fitted khakis and red polo shirts. They like to sit in a circle to talk, to laugh and…
By Lisa Gillespie – Rande Swann had a very, very bad October. That’s when her 80-year-old husband Don started getting sick for the first time in his life. First, it was cataract surgery. Then it was a partial knee replacement surgery. And then, as the kicker, a little more than a week after returning home from the…
by Erica Peterson – A bill that would fundamentally change the way Louisville Metro manages solid waste is set for passage in the Kentucky House of Representatives this week. City officials worry the bill is meant to roll back Louisville’s environmental progress — like banning plastic leaf bags, for example — but the bill’s proponents argue the…
by WBKO News Staff | MOREHEAD, Ky. (CNN) — As legislation passes through the Kentucky Senate to the House to regulate smoking in public schools and their events, so Kentucky students are inventing a “green” cigarette alternative. The group of three, made up by middle schoolers Andrew Witak, Megan Hodge, and Jake Linderman say they thought up their idea…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – A medical doctor in the Kentucky Senate is leading the effort to restrict smoking in a state that leads the country in smoking rates. Republican state Sen. Ralph Alvarado has pushed several statewide workplace smoking bans only to fail in a state where the cultural and economic heft of tobacco has maintained its grip…
by Tom Loftus , @TomLoftus_CJ – FRANKFORT, Ky. – As Gov. Matt Bevin warns that Kentucky’s tax code is already riddled with more than 300 loopholes, state lawmakers continue to propose more tax breaks for everything from buying gold bullion to donating “apparently wholesome food.” “We exempt more income in Kentucky than we take in,” Bevin complained…
By Chris Otts – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Humana and Aetna abandoned their $37 billion merger on Tuesday, ending a 19-month effort to combine the companies. A federal judge dealt the fatal blow with a Jan. 23 order blocking Aetna’s proposed purchase of Humana on anti-competitive grounds. The companies had said they were considering appealing the ruling,…
by Antoinette Konz – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Kentucky lawmaker has filed a bill that would require all public high school students to pass a civics test in order to receive a regular diploma. Sen. Jared Carpenter, a Republican from Berea, filed Senate Bill 159 on Friday, which would direct the Kentucky Department of Education to “prepare…
by Jason Riley – LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) – Three Kentucky Senators have filed a bill that would repeal a law requiring sexual and workplace harassment training for General Assembly members. In addition, Senate Bill 152 would reduce the required ethics training time for lawmakers from three hours to 30 minutes. The bill, filed Friday by Senators…
BY LINDA BLACKFORD, [email protected] – Some Kentucky State University faculty and alumni are pushing back after the school’s board of regents announced Friday that their $120,000 search for a new president had produced two finalists with controversial backgrounds and one with less than two years experience in higher education. Left off the list of finalists was interim…
