Kentucky

Legal news stories from around the circuit.  Be sure to click on the heading link to go to the provider for the entire story:

To clear the record, "Truth and Justice," the Barney Bright sculpture that stood outside Louisville's downtown Legal Arts Building for nearly 30 years, was never lost. Despite rumors that it had gone missing after Republic Bank bought and renovated the building at 200 S. Seventh St. in early 2008, the sculpture is safely under wraps at Louisville's Bright Foundry.

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration refused to fire or even transfer a supervisor in its Madisonville office who was found to have sexually harassed a subordinate, creating an "unlawful, hostile work environment" for her, according to a lawsuit and other documents filed in federal court in Louisville.

Louisville Metro government launched a search engine on its Web site today that is intended to allow citizens to track city spending and revenues.

Harvard professor Michael Sandel, author of "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" and professor of a similarly named course at Harvard, was interviewed on stage at The Kentucky Center by John S. Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and Lexington Herald-Leader.

Former state Rep. Steve Nunn has asked a Fayette Circuit judge to postpone further action in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of his slain ex-fiancée

The Indiana Supreme Court said Monday it won't reconsider its decision to overturn David Camm's 2006 conviction of the murders of his wife and their two children.

The letter to former federal magistrate judge Cleve Gambill virtually screamed in anger. "Your allocation of damages was a bad joke," David Pedley complained about Gambill's $1.3 million arbitration award against Pedley's former law firm, Pedley Zielke Gordinier & Pence, and his late father's estate, for aiding and abetting the gas and oil investment schemes of Martin Twist.

The anonymous extortion letter demanded that Martin Twist leave a bag with $150,000 in cash at mile marker 59 on Interstate 64 ? or each and every one of his oil and gas customers would be told that his business was a fraud.

On his last night as secretary of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Bill Nighbert used his personal cell phone to call road contractor Leonard Lawson three times. That same night, Lawson called Nighbert twice, the final time at 11:08 p.m.

There are a lot of things to be thankful for this holiday season. I'm thankful for Will Phillips. Will is a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary in Washington County, Ark. According to various newspaper and online accounts, he's a pretty typical 10-year old ? though it's worth noting that he's smart enough to have skipped a grade this year and wants to be lawyer when he grows up.

Imagine yourself in a classroom filled with our nation's children ? our next generation, our future workforce and leaders. One in three of them will eventually face a life with diabetes if current trends continue. Something must be done to stop this disturbing trend.

Ky. rapist sentenced for not registering in Neb.

Convicted murderer from Kentucky dies in Florida prison

Nurse, 2 nursing assistants indicted in Logan County case

Three are sentenced for making meth in southeast Kentucky

Richmond nursing home is second worst in nation, agency says

UK employee pleads not guilty to child porn charges

Man faces prison for throwing bricks in courthouse