Kentucky

Here are some news stories from papers, blogs and elsewhere this past week:

Blue Grass Politics Blog

• Advocates push for registry of abusive nursing home workers

• Lexington attorney named interim head of lawyers? group
  
  By Jack Brammer on Kentucky Bar Association
  
  
• DUI shock probation bill passes committee
  
  By Beth Musgrave on State Government

Courier Journal News

• Judge allows youth to return to foster care
• Parents try to add PRP principal, athletic director to lawsuit
  
  The parents of a Pleasure Ridge Park sophomore who collapsed at a football practice and later died are trying to add the high school principal, athletic director and an assistant coach to their civil suit.
• Fen-phen criminal retrial under way
  
  Jury selection is under way in the second federal trial of two disbarred lawyers accused of taking nearly $95 million from clients who claimed injuries from the fen-phen diet drug.
• Appeals court to hear faith case
  
  A federal appeals court next month will hear arguments in a case involving a Kentucky Baptist children's program and the role of government funding for faith-based institutions.
• Family suing Sanders restaurant
  
  The family of a Louisville man has filed suit, alleging he died last year after he became ill from eating at the Claudia Sanders Dinner House on Easter Sunday.
• Greed is charged in diet-drug trial
  
  Evidence in the case of two former lawyers accused of cheating their clients out of millions of dollars in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen will prove "absolute arrogance" and "greed," a prosecutor said yesterday during opening statements in their retrial.
• Lawyer: U.S. Marshals shot at wrong guy
  
  The lawyer for a man charged Saturday after his girlfriend was shot and injured by a deputy U.S. marshal in Louisville said he is convinced his client was "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Kentucky.com - Lexington Herald Leader

• John Marshall Harlan and the history of civil rights

AOC

• Carlisle County to break ground for $12.9 million courthouse Feb. 27

WHAS 11

• Nursing Home Ratings Have Detractors

  By Mark Hebert

  A bill that require Kentucky nursing homes to prominently display their federal rating near the front door is running into quite a bit of opposition from the nursing home industry. They say the federal, five star rating system is unfair and therefore, they shouldn't be required to post them where everyone coming into their facility can see them. Here's my story.

• Arena Authority Loses Lawyer

  By Mark Hebert

  The guy who had to put up with a slew of Open Records requests from me, Fox's Dick Irby and the C-J is no longer the general counsel for the Arena Authority.

• Oldham Co. Ordered To Pay Fine In Open Records Case

  By Mark Hebert

Page One Blog

• The Talk All Over Frankfort Today

• Mike Reynolds shocked everyone in Kentucky by winning the 32nd Senate District in a special election yesterday. Blew J. Marshall Hughes out of the water. This is what happens when the Governor, Lt. Governor and the Kentucky Democratic Party stay out of elections? Democrats actually win. [Page One] [NOTE:  Mike Reynolds is son of former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Reynolds].

• 32nd Senate Dist Special Election Results

• The Truth About J. Marshall Hughes?