Kentucky pays tribute this month to one of its largest and most significant sectors as Governor Steve Beshear proclaimed October Manufacturing Month in the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth is home to more than 2,400 manufacturing facilities. These companies contributed more than $36 billion to Kentucky’s economy last year and approximately 235,000 jobs. … [Read more...]

A construction contract to complete the widening of Interstate 65 has been awarded to Scotty’s Contracting and Stone LLC of Glasgow. Scotty’s Contracting submitted the low bid of $68.6 million, some $11 million below the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s own estimate, for the job of widening I-65 from Sonora to the Western Kentucky Parkway interchange at Elizabethtown. The project area is 10 miles long, and the contract calls for completion of the project by November 2018. … [Read more...]

Kentucky State Police are investigating a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a convention center in Lawrenceburg. Officials say KSP troopers were on a traffic stop late Saturday night near Eagle Lake Convention Center when they heard what sounded like multiple gunshots. … [Read more...]

Kentucky State Police, Post 15 is asking for the public's assistance in locating 24-year-old Whitney Danielle Copley, of Dunnville, KY. Copley was last seen on Wednesday, September 30. It is unknown what she was last wearing. She is a white female, 5' 7" tall, weighing 110 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair. … [Read more...]

Ironman triathlon competitors will be allowed to swim in the Ohio River after officials have lifted a recreational use advisory due to harmful levels of algae. The swim portion of the Sunday run-bike-swim race was in jeopardy for weeks. … [Read more...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says an Ohio County property contaminated with arsenic is about to get cleaned up. Arsenic trioxide levels at the site near the Daviess County line exceed 150,000 milligrams per kilogram. The EPA considers more than 50 milligrams per kilogram to be a high concentration for the area. … [Read more...]

A former Georgia doctor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute painkillers in Kentucky. The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Kentucky says 58-year-old Michael Johnston admitted he conspired with the owner of a Georgia pain clinic to distribute thousands of prescription pills to Kentuckians. … [Read more...]

Kentucky authorities say a report of shots fired on a college campus turned out to be unfounded. Louisville police gave students at the Jefferson Community and Technical College the all-clear Friday afternoon, about an hour after they received a call about an "active aggressor" on campus. … [Read more...]

An Elizabethtown man out for a morning run was struck by a passing car on the U.S. 31W Bypass at College Street Road Friday morning. According to the Elizabethtown Police Department, 54 year-old Derrick Dennison was on the southbound shoulder of the bypass when he was hit and the driver did not stop. … [Read more...]

Federal prosecutors say a Kentucky-based pharmacy has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle allegations that it solicited and received kickbacks from a manufacturer in exchange for promoting a drug with nursing home patients. … [Read more...]