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Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. performed the swearing-in ceremony for new KSP Commissioner Richard W. Sanders and Deputy Commissioner William Alexander Payne during a private ceremony at the Capitol on Wednesday.

Frankfort, KY—Late Tuesday night a fire erupted at the lodge at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. There were no injuries reported.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Senate President Robert Stivers says lawmakers are making progress toward an agreement on how to spend more than $65 billion in public money over the next two years.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Jefferson County, Kentucky, man was sentenced on Tuesday in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III, to 92 months in prison followed by a three year period of supervised release, for an attempted murder-for-hire scheme, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The former pastor of a Louisville, Kentucky, parish, Stephen A. Pohl, 57, was sentenced today in United States District Court, by United States District Judge David J. Hale, to 33 months in prison followed by a life term of Supervised Release for violating federal child exploitation laws.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a fugitive accused of attempted murder of a police officer and trafficking narcotics earlier this month has been arrested in Lexington.

COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A northern Kentucky mother has pleaded guilty to supplying her daughter with the heroin that she fatally overdosed on while in jail last year.