Lexington Pharmaceutical Company Developing COVID-19 Spray A Lexington pharmaceutical company is working to produce a nasal spray that could prevent one from catching COVID-19, as well as keep symptoms at bay in patients who have already tested positive for the highly contagious virus.Summit Biosciences, Inc. announced this week it had been awarded a contract…
Gubernatorial Candidate Pleads Not Guilty A Kentucky lawmaker who ran for governor last year has pleaded not guilty after he was accused of choking a woman with an ethernet cable and trying to “hog tie” her during a domestic dispute, says his lawyer. Attorney Conrad Cessna told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Monday that Republican…
Driver’s License Permit Testing Driver’s license permit testing will now resume in specific counties across Kentucky.The announcement was made recently by the KSP Driver Testing Branch. In order to better follow CDC/Health at Work guidelines, a new registration process was created. Starting on Tuesday, KSP will be taking appointments by phone. KSP encourages you…
Census Filing Have you filled out your census report yet? Some parts of Eastern Kentucky don’t have a lot of access to broadband and that is exacerbated by the fact that libraries are closed during the COVID-19 crisis. There aren’t a lot of hotspots that people can go to to get Internet access at…
COVID-19 Death In KY Officials with the Cumberland Valley Health Department confirm a Clay County woman has died due to complications from COVID-19.Not many details were released, but we do know the patient was a 69 year old woman who had underlying health conditions.Clay County has had six positive cases so far. Three of…
Education Commissioner Discussion The Kentucky Board of Education plans to hold a virtual meeting to discuss applicants for education commissioner.The board plans a video teleconference on June 4 to review and discuss applications in a closed session, a statement from the Department of Education said. An open session will follow, which could include discussion…
Kids And Hot Cars Kentucky State Police are working to bring attention to the problem of children being left behind in hot cars.The police cite information from the National Safety Council that shows 52 children died last year of vehicular heatstroke, including two in Kentucky. Sgt. Josh Lawson says never leave a child unattended…
Governor Beshear Defends COVID-19 Decisions Gov. Andy Beshear has forcefully defended his coronavirus-related restrictions, saying they spared Kentucky from a more devastating outbreak and now have the state primed to move ahead with business reopenings.The Democratic governor said his “drastic and significant” actions of recent months to contain the virus worked, putting Kentucky in…
Insurance Companies Awarded Contracts Five insurance companies were awarded contracts worth nearly $8 billion a year to manage most of Kentucky’s Medicaid business, Gov. Andy Beshear made the recent announcement.Landing the contracts were Aetna, Humana, Molina Healthcare, UnitedHealthcare and WellCare, Beshear said. About 1.4 million people in Kentucky receive health coverage through Medicaid.The Democratic…
Mining Company Buyout A mining company with operations in several counties in our coverage area now has a new owner.Seven Energy, based in the country of Liechtenstein, has acquired Lexington based Blackhawk Energy, LLC.According to a news release, Seven currently owns coal mining and power generation assets in the Czech Republic, in the United…