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Kentucky opens 2 new regional driver testing branches

September 28, 2021 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has two new regional driver testing branch locations available.

State police said the new branches are in Madisonville and Owensboro. The Madisonville office serves Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and Webster counties, while the Owensboro site is for residents of Daviess, Hancock, and Ohio counties.

Ron Jenkins, 83, former veteran editor of The Gleaner, dies

September 7, 2021 GMT

HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Ron Jenkins, who served as editor of The Gleaner newspaper for more than 30 years and was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2007, has died. He was 83.

Jenkins died Monday at The Heartford House hospice facility in Owensboro, The Gleaner reported.

Bluegrass museum develops new show about musicians

September 1, 2021 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — A new television show developed by the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in western Kentucky is scheduled to be distributed by a cable channel later this year, officials said.

Coroner identifies diver lost during power plant inspection

July 16, 2021 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials on Friday identified a diver who drowned while inspecting pipes in the Ohio River at an LG&E power plant a day earlier.

Nineteen-year-old Jaxxyn Lee Wood, of Owensboro, died at 1:03 p.m.

Top GOP senator: Easing police protections hurts departments

By ALAN FRAMJune 1, 2021 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Republican on Tuesday linked Democrats’ efforts to make it easier to sue police officers to problems many law enforcement agencies are having recruiting and retaining personnel, drawing a hard line on the thorniest divide between bargainers seeking compromise on legislation revamping police procedures.

Kentucky priest accused of sex abuse reinstated by Vatican

April 28, 2021 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — A western Kentucky priest accused of sexually abusing two minors has been reinstated by the Vatican but remains banned from entering schools for five years...

Kentucky WWI soldier’s New Testament given to museum

March 30, 2021 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The family of a Kentucky man who was killed in action in World War I is donating his copy of the New Testament he took with him to France to the National World War I Museum and Memorial...

Kentucky Wesleyan president hopes for open campus in fall

March 11, 2021 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Wesleyan College President Thomas Mitzel said the school has a goal to return to a fully open campus in the fall...

Kentucky man arrested in connection with Capitol breach

January 25, 2021 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man was arrested Monday in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U...

Measure to ban discrimination against LGBTQ community fails

April 3, 2020 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — An ordinance that would have banned discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation has failed in Daviess County, the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer

Bishop: 66 sex abuse claims against 27 priests since 1937

October 9, 2018 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — A Catholic bishop in Kentucky says his diocese has received 66 sexual abuse allegations against 27 priests since 1937, the year the diocese was founded.

Bishop William Medley of the Diocese of Owensboro told news outlets in a statement Monday that the diocese has compiled statistics regarding sexual abuse claims against priests and individuals who identified themselves as child sexual abuse victims.

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Staff WriterMarch 21, 2017 GMT

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Judge recuses himself in case of former UK board chairman

October 1, 2016 GMT

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The judge handling the case of the former University of Kentucky board chairman charged with rape has recused himself...