Kentucky

A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting a quarter century ago has a chance at parole this week.

More than two dozen cats saved from part of Kentucky that’s been devastated by flooding have been brought to Massachusetts to be adopted, local animal rescue groups said. The 26 cats were driven to Massachusetts by MSPCA-Angell and Northeast Animal Shelter on Tuesday, the organizations said. They’ll be put up for adoption after a two-day quarantine. “We’re going to...

A beer truck overturned and broke open sending hundreds of cases of beer into the median on a Kentucky highway.

A rescue mission brought 20 cats from Kentucky to Salem.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden toured storm-ravaged areas in eastern Kentucky and met with local officials and families affected by the historic flooding.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are witnessing first hand the damage from deadly and devastating storms that have resulted in the worst flooding in Kentucky’s history.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that four police officers involved in the 2020 shooting which killed Breonna Taylor have been charged with federal civil rights violations.

The rain fell Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat — falling trees and utility poles.

The same stubborn weather system caused intense downpours in St. Louis and Appalachia that led to devastating and in some cases deadly flooding.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has said the number would likely rise significantly and it could take weeks to find all the victims.

Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that the numbers of victims would likely rise significantly as a result of record flash flooding over the past several days.

The floodwaters have wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America.

Heavy rains have caused flash flooding and mudslides as storms pound parts of central Appalachia. Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday at least eight people have died from flooding in Kentucky. He says property damage has been massive, with hundreds losing their homes. Water rescues continue across the region. In eastern Kentucky’s Perry County, the emergency management director calls the damage...

At least 15 people are dead and officials fear that number will increase after rain battered the eastern part of Kentucky

Three Kentucky law enforcement officers were killed when a man opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant at a home in eastern Kentucky. Police took 49-year-old Lance Storz into custody late Thursday night after an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia. An emergency management official was also injured and...

A Kentucky man who was being questioned by authorities at a sheriff’s office fatally shot one of the deputies interviewing him during a cigarette break, police said.

Elsewhere in a candid conversation, Perry touched on how motherhood was the “best decision I ever made in my entire life.”

A Kentucky couple who ran a marathon with their 6-year-old son says they are being investigated by Child Protective Services.

Lukas started in the business training quarter horses and had a successful 10-year run before switching to thoroughbreds.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Republican-backed law in Kentucky that led the state’s two remaining abortion clinics to halt the procedure.