FRANKFORT — The first COVID-19 update of the year by Gov. Andy Beshear showed a roller-coaster ride in cases as three days of numbers were released Saturday.

FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce issued a report on racial inequality Tuesday that lays out the steps required to make progress in the state.

WESTWOOD, Ky. (AP) — Kaylee Litteral was sitting up in her hospital bed watching “Riverdale” on Netflix and eating ice chips.

FRANKFORT — The first COVID-19 update of the year by Gov. Andy Beshear showed a roller-coaster ride in cases as three days of numbers were released Saturday.

CADIZ — Generosity has rippled across the Facebook page for Trigg Cares, a grassroots effort that has sprung from one woman’s desire to start a resource page for her community, connecting those in need with the people who can help them.

FRANKFORT — The start of the new year will also mean a new look to the state court system website, kycourts.gov, starting Tuesday.

FRANKFORT — Secretary of State Michael Adams announced on Wednesday steps he’s taken to clean up Kentucky’s voter rolls.

FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold a video teleconference meeting at 7:30 a.m. (CST) Friday.

LOUISVILLE — Anger, frustration and sadness over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers for Breonna Taylor's death poured into America's streets as protesters lashed out at a criminal justice system they say is stacked against Black people. Violence seized the demonstrations in …

LOUISVILLE — Months after the police killing of Breonna Taylor thrust her name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, the city of Louisville agreed to pay the Black woman's family $12 million and reform police practices as part of a settlement announced Tuesday.

LOUISVILLE — An airplane circled above Churchill Downs on Saturday, flying a banner behind it: "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor," it said.

FRANKFORT — Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles was elected Thursday as president of a national association representing the leaders of state agriculture departments across the country.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul on Friday suggested cutting the number of days rural America receives postal deliveries to help shore up the financially ailing U.S. Postal Service.

FRANKFORT — Kentucky's Republican secretary of state said Tuesday he'll press to make more polling places available and count ballots faster in the November general election than in last month's primary.

FRANKFORT — Kentucky State Police posts across the state are participating in a fundraiser for Special Olympics called Cover the Cruiser.

FRANKFORT — Criminal jury trials may resume next week in Kentucky, but civil trials are still a couple of months away, the state Supreme Court said.

FRANKFORT — Agriculture officials in multiple states issued warnings Monday about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them.

FRANKFORT — Kentucky's governor on Monday ordered that bars close and restaurants scale back indoor service and urged school districts to wait until later in August to resume in-person classes in a new round of actions to combat a spike in coronavirus cases.

LEXINGTON — A group at the University of Kentucky sent a letter to Kentucky President Eli Capilouto on Thursday, asking the University of Kentucky to change the name of historic Rupp Arena.

A survey released by Smart Asset.com shows Princeton is the most affordable place to buy a home in Kentucky.

Logan’s Roadhouse — which has eight Kentucky locations, including Paducah — has fired all of its employees, and its parent company, Craftworks, has temporarily closed all restaurants until further notice as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LOUISVILLE — Gov. Andy Beshear said Kentucky is making plans to convert hotels into hospitals to provide additional beds, if the spread of the deadly coronavirus warrants it.

FRANKFORT — The Kentucky House passed a bill Tuesday seeking to amend the state constitution to specifically state that women do not have a legal right to an abortion.

Kentucky has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday.

Kentucky continues to lead the nation in child abuse and neglect, according to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. is limiting the sale of sanitization and cold- and flu-related products as the country grapples with COVID-19, the flu-like illness that follows infection by the novel coronavirus.

FRANKFORT -- For more than 65 days, Kentucky House Majority Floor Leader John "Bam" Carney has battled a severe case of pancreatitis and infection in the intensive care unit at Norton Hospital in Louisville.

BOWLING GREEN -- Kentucky is seeking $45,000 in fines from an Indiana man who is accused of using children to sell candy in Bowling Green.

BOWLING GREEN -- It might have been the most satisfying whinny Catherine Limkeman had ever heard from Declan, the horse she transported from Ozark, Ill., to Warren County's Rainhill Equine Facility.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky House voted Friday to create a loan program to provide struggling rural hospitals with cash transfusions lawmakers hope will spark a financial turnaround.

COVINGTON -- A Kentucky technology engineering firm plans to add at least 83 jobs with a $5.3 million expansion of its headquarters.

With the threat of coronavirus increasing in the United States, Kentucky's interim education commissioner reminded district superintendents Thursday that the decision to shut down schools might be out of their hands.

FRANKFORT -- The Kentucky Senate approved a constitutional amendment Wednesday to limit when a governor can issue pardons, a rebuke of Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's decision to sign a flurry of controversial pardons for convicted murderers, rapists and child pornographers in his last days in office.

FRANKFORT -- Local governments would have more latitude to raise tax revenue to meet demands for services under a proposed constitutional change advanced by a House panel Thursday.

Every year since 2007, Kentucky had finished dead last in a ranking of state animal-protection laws.

FRANKFORT -- Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear does not like Republican Senate President Robert Stivers' efforts to undo his remake of the Kentucky Board of Education.

Organizations spent more than $2.5 million trying to influence Frankfort legislators during the first month of the Kentucky General Assembly, according to state lobbying records.

Democrats held onto one of two party strongholds after a special election on Tuesday and a Republican took over a longtime blue seat.

GLASGOW -- The first people to explore and map the depths of Mammoth Cave and give guided tours were enslaved African Americans in the 19th century, and current Mammoth Cave National Park Ranger Chuck DeCroix wants to make sure their legacy is carried forward.

Jefferson Family Court Judge Derwin Webb has been publicly reprimanded by the Kentucky Supreme Court for an error in private practice that caused a former client to be married to two men at the same time.