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Kentucky

April 2024

  • Jesse Kipf admitted to having faked his own death in order to get out of paying child support.

    Kentucky man admits to faking own death to avoid paying child support

  • A weather system over the US on 3 April 2024.

    Millions brace for extreme US weather as thunderstorms sweep across states

March 2024

  • A white man is seen from the back, blurry in the foreground, wearing a black jacket, baseball hat and glasses, as he surveys a wash between two stands of twos, with damaged homes, vehicles and land caked in mud.

    America's dirty divide
    Two years after deadly floods in Appalachia, a community hopes lawsuit will bring change

  • woman in a red jacket speaks into a microphone

    ‘Legal discrimination’: dismay as Kentucky poised to ban DEI in colleges

  • bedroom

    ‘Life has not stopped for grief’: the photographer holding Breonna Taylor’s memory

  • Republican state senator Whitney Westerfield in Frankfort, Kentucky, in February 2020.

    Kentucky senate passes bill granting right to collect child support for fetuses

  • Firefighter abseils to rescue driver of truck hanging off bridge in Kentucky – video

  • Kentucky firefighter abseils off bridge to rescue dangling truck driver

February 2024

  • Mitch McConnell

    Mitch McConnell to step down as Republican leader in US Senate

    Kentucky senator, 82 and the longest-serving Senate leader in history, will step aside as minority leader at end of this year

January 2024

  • An area of the Cumberland plateau in Tennessee.

    Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky

  • Nick Wilson in his time on the Survivor TV show.

    Kentucky’s ex-Survivor lawmaker rues ‘embarrassing’ cousin gaffe in incest bill

  • Traffic rolls past the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as police respond to a bomb threat.

    At least nine US state capitol buildings evacuated after bomb threats

  • Kim Davis<br>FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2015 file photo, Rowan County, Ky., Clerk Kim Davis speaks in Morehead, Ky. Davis, the Kentucky clerk who spent five days in jail for defying federal court orders and refusing to license same-sex marriage, will have a seat at the president's final State of the Union. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

    Kim Davis must pay $260,000 legal fees over same-sex marriage license refusal

December 2023

  • Cindy Mullins is facing life as a quadruple amputee after what she thought would be a relatively routine bout with a kidney stone. She is choosing to focus on what she still has.

    ‘Happy to be alive’: US woman gets limbs amputated after kidney stone surgery

  • Demonstrators rally for abortion rights at the Kentucky capitol in Frankfort in April 2022.

    Woman suing Kentucky over abortion laws learns her embryo no longer viable

  • Abortion rights supporters protest at the Kentucky capitol in Frankfort last year.

    Pregnant woman sues Kentucky for right to have abortion

  • Isla McNabb at age 2 became the world’s youngest Mensa member, according to Guinness World Records. An erasable tablet given to her for her second birthday played a key role in her obtaining the record.

    Kentucky two-year-old’s high IQ makes her youngest female member of Mensa

November 2023

  • Grounds crew members load cargo into an Amazon Prime Air aircraft at the company's air hub in Hebron, Kentucky.

    ‘We can’t trust them’: workers decry alleged union busting at Amazon air hub

    Employees at facility in Kentucky allege Amazon is retaliating against them as they push for union representation
  • A locomotive in front of an upended tanker car with a CSX employee walking by.

    Derailed train sparks molten sulphur fire in Kentucky

    State declares emergency and town of Livingston evacuated, to be fed Thanksgiving dinner by CVX rail company
  • Crime scene tape cordons off a street as law enforcement officers respond to an active shooter near the Old National Bank building on April 10, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Kentucky mass shooter detailed mental health issues and ease of gun purchase

    Gunman who killed five in April wrote in journal how ‘ridiculous’ it was to buy a gun while having mental health problems
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