Kentucky

Law stories from around the Commonwealth:

FRANKFORT, Ky. ? In a significant victory for the prosecution, a federal judge ruled Monday that a revised indictment in the highway bid-rigging case will stand.

A bankruptcy judge has ruled that General Motors Corp. can sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, potentially clearing the way for the automaker to quickly emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana said it would use proceeds from sales of the plate to raise awareness about harm caused by pornography and the sex industry.

Last year several thousand Kentuckians were convicted of theft and required to pay restitution to victims ? a process that can often take defendants months or even years to accomplish.

A federal judge on Thursday halted work to widen the historic Harrods Creek bridge in Prospect amid pending lawsuits over preserving it.

The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

The United States Supreme Court claims to be above politics, and it sometimes even achieves that aspiration. The Court has occasionally solved problems that the more conventionally political branches of government have allowed to fester, and oppressed minorities have periodically been able to use the court to vindicate their rights.

ORLANDO, Fla. ? Emergency officials say two monorail trains crashed in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train's operator.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Investigators in the federal highway bid-rigging case confronted an ethics dilemma early last year when their undercover witness finished a secretly recorded phone call with road contractor Leonard Lawson, according to a court document that provides a glimpse of the investigation.

The following is the text of a statement issued yesterday by Jefferson County Schools Superintendent Sheldon Berman, summarizing the findings of the system's internal investigation of the death of football player Max Gilpen last August.

In 2006 the key prosecution witness in the federal highway bid-rigging case secretly recorded two conversations with then-Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert about obtaining confidential bid information, according to prosecutors.

It's rare in Kentucky for a major health insurer and a large health-care operator to sever relations as Anthem and Norton Healthcare have done, state insurance regulators say.

The lawyer who successfully challenged the Jefferson County school system's desegregation plan ? in a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court ? filed suit Thursday against the district's latest student assignment plan.

The anonymous post appeared online Aug. 13, 2008, under a Richmond Register story, headlined, "You can buy it at the mall, but you can't wear it there."

A closed-door meeting conducted last week by the Jefferson County Board of Education to evaluate Superintendent Sheldon Berman may have violated a state attorney general's opinion requiring that such evaluations be done in public.

The identity of a woman tagged only with the name "Caroline" has remained a mystery in Eastern Kentucky for four decades. Darla Jackson heard the legend of the mysterious woman and now is hoping DNA testing can help shed light on who "Caroline" really is and how she ended up dead along the side of a road in Harlan County in 1969.