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Department of Justice plans for $5.9 millionBy Beth Musgrave on Featured FROM BLUEGRASS POLITICS BLOG W/HERALD LEADER
FRANKFORT -- The Secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet said Friday that he will have to cut about $5.9 million from the public safety cabinet and many of those cuts will likely have to come from the Department of Juvenile Justice. J. Michael Brown, in a press conference on Friday, said he and other agencies have been asked to plan for a possible six percent cut to their budgets in preparation for a predicted $161 million shortfall this fiscal year, which began in July.
Sierra Club and Valley Watch have sued the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in Washington, D.C., claiming that agency administrator Lisa Jackson should have already stopped three planned coal-power plants in Kentucky from getting their air-quality permits. FROM COURIER JOURNAL
A proposed $45 million settlement to end a legal battle between more than 800 Louisville firefighters and the city over years of miscalculated overtime pay will be debated for the first time by the Louisville Metro Council's Budget Committee Wednesday.
The salesman and the customer test driving a car that crashed in August, killing two people, both told police they were traveling between 50 and 60 mph just before colliding with a Mercury Sable as it pulled onto Fern Valley Road from an apartment complex, according to recently released court records.
U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth gave a $79,000 check to the Legal Aid Society of Louisville Tuesday to help the organization reach out to veterans.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals Friday upheld the $6.1 million jury award to strip-search victim Louise Ogborn, saying McDonald's legal department was "fully aware" of hoax calls to its restaurants, yet its management made "a conscious decision not to train or warn employees or managers about the calls." CLICK ON MCDONALD'S CORP. V. OGBURN FOR FULL TEXT OF DECISION.
St. Xavier High School is disavowing the mayoral campaign of Jim King saying it doesn't support his candidacy and didn't give him permission to use its logo or alumni database to send out a fundraising request.
The coal company that has found itself embroiled in controversy over the firing of a key state mining regulator has been a major contributor to political campaigns and committees in Kentucky the past five years.
The prosecutor in the murder case against former state Rep. Steve Nunn declined Thursday to say whether he plans to seek the death penalty. Nunn, 57, of Glasgow, pleaded not guilty in Fayette Circuit Court to charges of murder and violating a domestic violence protective order.
Louisville mayoral candidate Jim King's former wife obtained a restraining order that barred him from the couple's home as part of their 1988 divorce case, records show. A Jefferson County judge released the case file Tuesday after Rebecca King, from whom he was divorced in 1991, dropped her efforts to have it sealed.
Ed Springston, a blogger and former mayoral candidate, has filed a complaint with the Judicial Conduct Commission against Jefferson District Court Judge Katie King, claiming she gave preferential treatment to a friend arrested for driving on a suspended license after drunken driving offenses.
Do we live in a just society? A just society distributes income and wealth, duties and rights, powers and opportunities among its citizens according to their due. But what are people due? Harvard law professor Michael J. Sandel joins us in Louisville to help us investigate these issues.
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