http://www.dailyindependent.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:14:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115201457.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115201457.html Officials violated state law by not conducting a national search for the state's higher education chief, and Kentucky should start pursuing a new permanent replacement, Attorney General Jack Conway said. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:11:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115201123.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115201123.html Kentucky's soggy spring has put corn planting well behind schedule for farmers like Randy Hagan, who spent more time tinkering in his shop than working in his fields. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:04:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115200425.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_115200425.html Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph Lambert said Thursday that he is resigning effective June 27. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_107123135.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_107123135.html U.S. executions are all but sure to resume soon after a nationwide halt, cleared Wednesday by a splintered Supreme Court that approved the most widely used method of lethal injection. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:35:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_107071912.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_107071912.html It all came crashing down just short of midnight Tuesday – no pension reform bill, no help for county jails, no money for bridges in Jefferson County, no roads in legislative leaders’ home districts. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094184307.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094184307.html Debbie Stephens was standing in a hotel lobby in Atlanta during the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament last month when a couple from Arkansas stopped by and asked her about the older man standing a few feet away with the Kentucky outfit and the great big smile. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094063516.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094063516.html It took what House budget chairman Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, called a “diabolical deal with the devil,” but the House late Wednesday passed a two-year, $19 billion state budget. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:47:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094091136.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094091136.html A few days before the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its estimate of how much corn, soybeans and other crops farmers will plant this year, Larry Gleason was getting ready to do what the forecasters were betting he wouldn't. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:05:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094090254.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_094090254.html As huge saws rip through logs at the Hancock Lumber sawmill, sawdust flies through the air and coats equipment, floors and rafters. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_093224540.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_093224540.html It took a last minute deal promising to fund water and sewer projects in non-coal counties. But with the help of several Republican House members who wanted those projects, the legislature was expected to pass a $19 billion, two-year budget late Wednesday. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:56:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_093005019.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_093005019.html It took a week which ended with a 21-hour marathon negotiating session to work out a budget compromise between the House and Senate – but whether it can pass the full House appeared in doubt Tuesday afternoon. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_092082048.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_092082048.html After meeting nearly continuously for 21 hours, House and Senate budget negotiators emerged around 7 a.m. Tuesday with a tentative agreement on a two-year state budget. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:53:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_091055331.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_091055331.html The open, televised meetings of the conference committee of state legislators trying to come up with a state budget is over. But lawmakers’ inability to agree on how to craft a two-year, $19 billion state budget continues. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:09:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_089220850.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_089220850.html This is the way it’s always done, they say. But leaders of the Kentucky Senate and House of Representatives are running out of time to cobble together a budget compromise. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:29:00 +0000 http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_088012128.html http://www.dailyindependent.com/statenews/local_story_088012128.html A mother killed her two children and later went to the nearby college she attended and brandished a gun Thursday before handing the weapon to a health counselor, police said.