Kentucky

Preservation organizations' lawsuit could halt progress on a project already years behind schedule.

Advocates for victims of sexual abuse are protesting plans by a local church to ordain a registered sex offender Sunday. A minister has "a position where you have ultimate trust and are representing God," said Rochelle Fournier.

Churchill Downs Inc. claims an assistant general manager fired from its Louisville racetrack last year secretly funneled Kentucky Derby and Oaks tickets to scalpers.

House Speaker Greg Stumbo on Thursday proposed a state takeover of the private women's prison in Eastern Kentucky. Stumbo, a Prestonsburg Democrat whose district contains the prison, said in a letter to Justice Cabinet Secretary J. Michael Brown that the state should try to negotiate a lease of the Otter Creek Correctional Center from Corrections Corp. of America, which owns and operates the facility.

Max Gilpin would have survived if Pleasure Ridge Park's coaching staff had treated his heat stroke correctly after he collapsed at a football practice last year, an expert on heat-related illnesses testified Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court.

Several current and former Pleasure Ridge Park High School football players testified Wednesday that they saw teammates vomiting, stumbling, crying ? and even having trouble breathing ? at the Aug. 20, 2008, practice where teammate Max Gilpin collapsed from heat stroke.

A former Army soldier who was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the shooting deaths of her parents and younger sister has filed notice he is appealing his conviction.

The U.S. Army on Wednesday won a court challenge to its plan to incinerate chemical weapons at storage sites around the country, over objections from a watchdog group that says the practice releases toxic pollution.