Kentucky

Florida Biological Siblings Separated in Foster Care Although One Family Will Take Them All
Little Girl in foster care in Florida is adopted. Baby Boy is placed into foster care with different foster parents and they want to adopt him. Boy and Girl are biological brother and sister...

Report -- Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
States require youth to leave foster care at ages that vary from 18 to 21. Abundant research shows that children who are "emancipated" directly from foster care to adulthood are at "high risk for a number of adverse outcomes during...

Judge Melcher announces Family Drug Court for Harrison, Nicholas, Pendleton and Robertson counties
  FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 16, 2008 ? Family Court Judge David E. Melcher announced a new Family Drug Court to serve adults and families in Harrison, Nicholas, Pendleton and Robertson counties at a news conference today at the Harrison County Justice Center in Cynthiana...

Recount may affect outcome of Kenton Senate Race between Goob and Westwood
Kenton Circuit Judge Patricia Summe  ruled this morning that ballots cast in voting machines that malfunctioned on Tuesday can now be counted.  Jude Summe made the ruling after a hearing on Wednesday morning...

Gathering Evidence
The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a slander lawsuit brought against an attorney and his firm under the following facts: In November 2006, defendant approached Bobby Bracken (?Bracken?), a potential witness in the action originally filed...

Legal help for those leaving foster care
The Texas Foster Youth Justice Project (FYJP), which provides free legal services to current and former foster youths, in December published a guide for those transitioning out of foster care, says FYJP director Mary Christine Reed...

Foster Care Chile Molestation
Department of Children & Families pays $175,000 negligence settlement.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...

Two Kentucky Counties
settle strip search class action lawsuits

Wesley A. Snyder et al.
alleging the consultants perpetrated a Ponzi scheme by encouraging borrowers to lend more than they needed.

Adult Care
Friendship Care Assisted Living ordered to pay $20,000 fine for facility violations and negligence.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.