Kentucky

Recent law-related news stories from Courier Journal:

• Prosecutor charged with endangerment, fleeing

  Kungu Njuguna pleaded not guilty this morning in Jefferson District Court and was released on his own recognizance. He has a preliminary hearing on Feb. 3.

• Insurance exec agrees to jail time for DUI

  Insurance executive Robert "Bobby" Clarkson, who seriously injured a motorcyclist while driving drunk in June, agreed this morning to serve his 30-day sentence in jail, instead of home incarceration.

• PRP coaches' depositions delayed in player's death

  A Jefferson Circuit judge [Mitch Perry] gave two Pleasure Ridge Park High School coaches extra time to give depositions in a civil lawsuit involving the death of a football player after practice.

• Kentucky's Medicaid deficit grows

  The deficit in the Kentucky Medicaid program has grown to $231.8 million, the House budget committee was told today.

• PRP coach indicted in player's death

  The head football coach of Pleasure Ridge Park High School has been charged with reckless homicide in the death of a 15-year-old player who collapsed from heat stroke at practice. It's the first time a criminal charge has been filed in such a case, according to sports experts.

• Judge hears suit on closing firehouse

  A Jefferson Circuit Court judge will decide on Friday whether to grant a temporary injunction that would reopen Louisville's oldest firehouse, which shut its doors earlier this month.
  
  
  
  update:  Judge denies request to reopen firehouse
  
  
  
  
• State won't change vehicle assessment practice
  
  The Kentucky Department of Revenue has decided to continue valuing vehicles for property-tax purposes as it has in recent years ? averting a significant loss of revenue to both state and local governments but also depriving many car owners of a tax cut.