The Latest Breaking News from Kentucky

With many Ky. counties at high COVID-19 level, governor hopes for plateau in new cases

The vast majority of Kentucky counties remain at medium or high COVID-19 community levels under the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest update, but with a growing number of counties at low levels, it could mean the upsurge in cases is cresting in the Bluegrass State.

Tribune News Service · Aug 14, 2022

Missing 12-year-old girl is found dead after father ‘tried to kill himself’

Body of Stacia Leigh Collins found on ‘very remote’ road in eastern Kentucky

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022

Chicago outdoors: Emily Dickinson and snakes, Chicago River night heron, stinkhorn, Kentucky elk

Emily Dickinson on the reaction to snakes, a good photo of a black-crowned night heron on the Chicago River, the restoration numbers of elk in Kentucky and a question/notes on stinkhorns are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 13, 2022

This time Trump is trapped — and afraid

Donald Trump's lifelong grift is nearing its final act. Across America his power is fading — and he knows it

Salon · Aug 11, 2022

Haunted sanatorium where thousands of patients died and you can play ball with a ghost

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky was opened up to help contain a tuberculosis outbreak and a series of 'bloody' experiments were carried out on its suffering patients

Daily Mirror · Aug 11, 2022

America’s summer of floods: climate crisis fueling barrage, scientists say

Yellowstone, Death Valley, Kentucky – experts say extreme rainfall spurred by global heating is rendering historical norms obsolete

The Guardian - US · Aug 11, 2022

Report: UK’s Tshiebwe to Make $500K This Week in Bahamas

Kentucky basketball star Oscar Tshiebwe isn’t necessarily relaxing on the team’s bonding trip to the Bahamas this week.

Sports Illustrated · Aug 10, 2022

Teen's death is latest tragedy in flood-ravaged Kentucky

The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping his fellow eastern Kentuckians clean up from flooding has added another layer of grief to the tragedy

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2022

‘Limp & late’: Trump allies pound McConnell for measured response to FBI search

WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 10, 2022

Semi-truck full of Bud Light overturns on Kentucky highway spilling cans everywhere

“Looks like my basement back in 2006,” joked one social media user of the spill

The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2022