The wait for Kentucky’s primary election results will be over at 6 p.m. Tuesday, but key races might be called by lunchtime. Kentucky election officials have spent the last week counting ballots in an election that was largely conducted through the mail because of concerns over the spread of COVID-19. As of noon Monday, about…… more »
More than three weeks after hundreds of thousands of Americans started taking to the streets to protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, anticipated surges in COVID-19 cases have not shown up in the cities with the biggest protests. Some commentators are already speculating that the lack of protest-related spikes in…… more »
Several thousand ballots mailed on Election Day were processed with the wrong postmark date, but the issue was quickly resolved, according to a letter postal officials sent to some county clerks in Kentucky. Postal workers were still processing ballots at a Louisville facility on Election Day when the clock switched over to midnight, automatically changing…… more »
Though Sherman Guthrie Price had COVID-19 when he died Monday at age 106, he did not die from it, an important distinction to his grandson, Bowling Green lawyer Mark Alcott. “The thing that really makes me happy is that my grandfather was so strong that COVID didn’t get him,” Alcott said Tuesday. Instead, the Logan…… more »
Kentucky’s Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate could still go either way, but Charles Booker is now in the lead over Amy McGrath. Booker led by fewer than 3,000 votes as of Thursday afternoon, based in part on a dominating showing so far in his hometown of Louisville, the state’s largest city, where he garnered…… more »
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of four people who were involved in a protest during one of Gov. Andy Beshear’s news conferences in April. The individuals sued the governor after barricades were put up around the Capitol building while they were protesting. The lawsuit states that Kentucky State Police (KSP) also “restricted…… more »
MILWAUKEE – Organizers upended the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, as they told state delegations not to travel to Milwaukee, moved the convention to a smaller venue and added satellite events around the country. But even as Democrats downsize their convention – in contrast to what Republicans are doing – they say former Vice President…… more »
Temperature checks before school, physical distancing in classrooms, contact tracing to limit outbreaks and a general requirement that students wear masks – all will be expectations for schools hoping to reopen in the fall during the coronavirus crisis. On Wednesday, the Kentucky Department for Public Health released its highly anticipated Healthy at School guidance document.…… more »
When Gov. Steve Beshear surprisingly moved six years ago to appeal a federal judge’s order striking down Kentucky’s same-sex marriage ban, he insisted, “My decision was not a political decision.” And Kentucky’s 61st governor said his son Andy Beshear’s pending candidacy for the Democratic nomination for attorney general was “absolutely not” a factor. But in…… more »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — While national Democrats, athletes and celebrities are saying Kentucky’s rescheduled primary is an attempt at voter suppression, the Bluegrass State is on its way to a possible record turnout in Tuesday’s primary election. Kentucky received high marks months ago when Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams agreed…… more »
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