Tonya York’s Indian Hills home is warm, welcoming, and full of mementos and artifacts from friends, family, and her travels. It’s full of cozy, carefully thought-out spaces but it wasn’t always that way. When she purchased the property, she knew she had to put some work into the place; and, she says, the home improvement process hasn’t stopped.
Made of memories
“This was a total fixer-upper,” York said. “I never could have afforded it otherwise.”
When she purchased the house about 20 years ago, it hadn’t been touched in quite some time. It sat vacant for nearly a year before the previous owner’s children finally got around to selling it.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday he has appointed Col. Phillip PJ Burnett Jr. as the Kentucky State Police commissioner.
Burnett, a Bell County native, has served KSP for 25 years and spent the past few months as interim commissioner following Rodney Brewer s resignation in November.
Brewer resigned from KSP amid a controversy over a past training presentation that quoted Adolph Hitler and urged cadets to be ruthless killer(s). The training material was first brought to light by student journalists with the Manual Redeye publication at Louisville s duPont Manual High School. I believe in Commissioner Burnett’s ability to lead KSP into the future,” Beshear said Friday in a news release. He is already working to increase recruitment and create a more diverse workforce, which is crucial to fulfilling our state’s law enforcement duties.
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The Kentucky State Police trooper who was reassigned after attending the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C., was the agency’s top recruiter.
Capt. Michael Webb was reassigned on Jan. 8 from his position in the recruitment branch to the Inspections and Evaluations Branch, his personnel file shows.
A week after the rally, KSP issued a statement saying one trooper, who was not named, had been temporarily reassigned after attending on personal time with his family. When asked about Capt. Michael Webb’s assignment status, an agency spokesperson pointed back to that statement.
“KSP is reviewing the employee’s participation. It is the right thing to do to protect our nation, democracy, agency and all KSP employees,” said acting KSP commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. in the statement. “This is the same review process our agency follows any time there is questionable activity involving any law enforcement personnel within our agency.”