Robert Crail Sr. and his wife, Dorothy, recount how their son, Bobby, was found pinned under his motorized wheelchair in a stairwell nine hours after going missing at Woodcrest Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Elsmere.
Wanda Delaplane, former Kentucky assistant attorney general, recounts the story of how she lost her father to nursing home neglect in 2006 and how she now advocates for safety in nursing homes.
State Sen. Ralph Alvarado, R-Winchester, opposes bills that would set minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes because those jobs can be hard to fill. “It’s a job that a lot of folks don’t, frankly, want to do,” Alvarado says.
Sherry Culp, executive director of the Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass, describes about how to select a nursing home for a loved one. Brookdale Senior Living resident Becky Walters talks about life in her nursing home.
Nobody discovered the violent death of Bobby Crail at Woodcrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center until nine hours after he went down the stairs. Two years later, it’s still a dangerous place for vulnerable people to live.
Nearly half of Kentucky’s nursing homes are rated as substandard by the federal government. A big problem is inadequate staffing that puts residents in harm’s way. The legislature’s response: Make it harder to sue nursing homes.
State Sen. Ralph Alvarado, R-Winchester, is a doctor who works at nearly a half-dozen substandard nursing homes in Kentucky while fighting in Frankfort to protect the nursing home industry from lawsuits.
A reservoir that supplies Martin County, Kentucky with drinking water has fallen to a critically low level over the past month, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency.
The 2009 murder of Amanda Ross in Lexington, Ky., by former state Rep. Steve Nunn led to a new law that allows electronic monitoring of some domestic violence perpetrators. Court records show that it is not being used.
According to a lawsuit filed in Harlan County Circuit Court, a former chairman of the county’s Industrial Development Authority and two local businessmen allegedly conspired to transfer a publicly-owned building into private hands.
A former investigator at the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services who alleged that her superiors wanted her to cover up mistakes made in a horrific child abuse case in Berea has settled her whistleblower lawsuit in exchange for a cash award and a new position.
Blake Shouse, manager of Shelbyville Monument Co. in Shelbyville, Ky., makes his case for why the state should not put a sales tax on tombstones and grave markers. The tax exemption on gravestones costs Kentucky about $8.5 million each year.
Kentucky loses about $8.5 million a year by not applying its 6 percent sales tax to gravestones, monuments and tombstones — part of a whopping $13 billion the state loses each year through tax loopholes.
Kentucky’s sales tax generated more than $3.4 billion in fiscal year 2017, but the state could have brought in an additional $2.5 billion in revenue that year if it expanded the sales tax to cover services, ranging from haircuts to legal work.
Kentucky’s state property tax rate on small boats is 30 times higher than the tax rate on many luxury houseboats. That means owners pay less state property tax on a $150,000 houseboat than on a $25,000 fishing boat.
A law to spur economic development in blighted areas is now sometimes used for private developments in upscale neighborhoods. Overall, Kentucky has given developers $111 million through TIF tax rebates in the past decade and at least $2.9 billion more has been pledged.
Kentucky film producer AJ Hochhalter explains how Kentucky's film incentive program helped him produce his documentary "Neat: The Story of Bourbon" just before the production's hometown screening at Kentucky Theatre.
Each year, Kentucky gives away more tax revenue through loopholes and incentive programs than it actually collects. Gov. Matt Bevin promised earlier this year to turn some of these "sacred cows" of Kentucky's tax code into hamburger, but that's ea
Kentucky has promised more than $90 million in incentives to companies making movies, television shows, documentaries and commercials inside the state.
Robert Crail Sr. and his wife, Dorothy, recount how their son, Bobby, was found pinned under his motorized wheelchair in a stairwell nine hours after going missing at Woodcrest Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Elsmere.
