COVID-19 positivity rate in Kentucky falls for the sixth week in a row
The COVID-19 positivity rate in Kentucky continues to fall.
Last Sunday, Kentucky reported 979 new COVID cases, 731 less than last week. The positivity rate is currently 6.7%, with cases decreasing for the sixth week in a row.
“We see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Governor Andy Beshear said Monday, Feb. 15. “We want to protect one another as we get there.”
The state’s total number of cases was 396,018 as of Feb. 21.
“In addition to releasing the COVID statistics, Beshear said childcare workers will get higher priority for vaccines,” the Lexington Herald Leader reported on Feb. 15. “They have been included in 1B groups and can sign up anywhere the state is offering vaccines.”
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For the first time in nearly a year, the sound of children will be heard inside of some Fayette County Public School Buildings. Kindergarten, first and second graders whose families chose to return are back today. They were set to return last Tuesday but the weather put plans on hold. Third, fourth and fifth graders could be back in the classroom as early as March 3rd. Other grade levels are still to be determined.
Initially, sixth, ninth and twelfth graders were on the matrix for in-person learning with the next group but Interim Superintendent Dr. Marlene Helm said bus driver and other staffing shortages are creating challenges. District leaders will meet with the Fayette County Health Department tomorrow to discuss plans to return more students as soon as possible. If COVID-19 numbers take a turn and begin to rise, all students could be returned to NTI-2DL.
A woman in Franklin County, Kentucky has settled a lawsuit, in which she claimed jailers abandoned her to give birth by herself in a cell. Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove granted a joint motion by plaintiff Kelsey Love and the defendants on Wednesday, according to records and documents viewed by Law&Crime. The post Woman Settles Lawsuit That Claimed Jailers Abandoned Her to Give Birth By Herself in Cell first appeared on Law & Crime.
A woman in Franklin County, Kentucky has settled a lawsuit, in which she claimed jailers abandoned her to give birth by herself in a cell. Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove granted a joint motion by plaintiff Kelsey Love and the defendants on Wednesday, according to records and documents viewed by Law&Crime.
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Kentucky House Speaker David Osbourne (R-Prospect) this week said the House of Representatives will send a citizen’s petition calling for the impeachment of Rep. Robert Goforth (R-East Bernstadt) to the same impeachment committee investigating a petition to impeach Gov. Andy Beshear, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. The committee was formed because state law requires the Speaker of the House to form an impeachment committee once petitions are filed by members of the public. Rep. Goforth challenged and lost to sitting Republican then-Governor Matt Bevin in the 2019 gubernatorial primary. Rep. Goforth was indicted in September on charges of assault and strangulation. He easily won re-election in November with nearly 71 percent of the vote. The newspaper reports that Wednesday’s petition against Rep. Goforth is a political repercussion of Speaker Osbourne’s formation of an impeachment committe