Black Bear Spotted Near A KY Business A Rowan County man had an unusual sighting outside of his business Sunday morning.Dan Hook spotted a black bear in the parking lot across the street of Hook Outdoors in Morehead. His business is located at Cave Run Lake. Hook says this is the first one he…
Hoops For Hope Tips Off The fourth annual Hoops for Hope tipped off Saturday morning.Teams from multiple states laced up their shoes for the basketball tournament in Louisa.Sports are known to bring people together.”Rise Above’s mission is “Together making things better,” said organizer Matt Brown.That’s what the Lawrence County tournament is aimed to do.”This…
Governor Bevin Discussess Immigration Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says some Republican lawmakers will introduce legislation to keep local governments from enacting policies that would keep police from cooperating with immigration authorities.Bevin started his announcement Friday in Lexington by explaining that the proposed bill is not about immigration. Instead, it is about better supporting law…
Spurlock Case Moves Forward In Court Today A man charged after a missing woman’s body was found on the property where he was living will appear in court today. David Sparks is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. in Garrard District Court. Police say they found Savannah Spurlock’s body where Sparks was…
Team of Nurses Have Vaccinated 21,000 Since Hepatitis A Outbreak Began A team of nurses has given out more than 21,000 Hepatitis A vaccines since the statewide outbreak of the virus began. WKYT-TV reports the nurses have traveled across the state administering the vaccines, especially at jails and prisons. The Kentucky outbreak began in…
London-Corbin Airport Lands .85M in Federal Funds to Redo Runway Two general aviation Kentucky airports have been awarded grants totaling nearly $11 million as part of funding announced by the U.S. Transportation Department. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the Gallatin Airport in Sparta will receive $9 million to invest in grading and drainage work…
Harlan Woman Raises ,000 for Blackjewel Miners A Harlan woman has helped raise $5,000 for the miners that have been left in the lurch by the Blackjewel LLC bankruptcy. Joyce Cheng and others met outside the old Harlan courthouse this week to try and raise the funds. She said she also plans on donating…
Smoke Alarms Recalled Universal Security Instruments has recalled nearly 200,000 smoke alarms over reports that the devices have failed to activate during a fire.The smoke alarms can have a misaligned internal switch, which causes the device to not active during a fire.This recall involves Universal Security Instruments 10-year battery-operated ionization smoke and fire alarms…
Governor Bevin To Speak On Sanctuary Cities Governor Matt Bevin is expected to make an announcement in Lexington regarding sanctuary city policies.He will join state lawmakers, law enforcement officials and representatives from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.A ‘sanctuary city’ is a city were municipal laws tend to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or…
McConnell Lands Grant For UK U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday the U.S. Department of Energy will invest nearly $2.23 million in federal funding for the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER).This grant will be in addition to the $934,554 in federal funding McConnell helped get in 2018.This…