Kentucky
Kentucky governor declares emergency over high gas prices
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear took motion Thursday to fight any indicators of value gouging on the pump, touting it as a shopper safety measure amid sky-high gasoline costs straining Kentuckians’ budgets.
The Democratic governor signed an govt order declaring a state of emergency in response to gasoline costs hovering near $5 per gallon. His motion activated Kentucky’s value gouging legal guidelines.
Together with his motion, Kentucky customers can report suspected value gouging on the pump to state Lawyer Normal Daniel Cameron’s workplace.
Beshear stated “each little bit helps” in making an attempt to supply aid to customers reeling from hovering gasoline costs. He acknowledged a governor’s choices are restricted in coping with world financial unrest.
Cameron responded by urging Kentuckians to alert his workplace about any indicators of value gouging.
However the hot-button situation mirrored the political stress between the Democratic governor and the Republican legal professional basic who needs his job.
Beshear wrote to Cameron in early June asking if the subject of gasoline costs warranted investigation.
In a latest reply, Cameron blamed Democratic President Joe Biden’s power insurance policies for the nation’s rising gasoline costs. Cameron accused Biden of pursing an “excessive ‘inexperienced’ agenda.”
Cameron advised Beshear that issuing a state of emergency would provide “minimal — if any — further aid” to Kentuckians. However he pledged to completely implement the worth gouging legal guidelines.
Beshear provided a public reply at his weekly information convention Thursday.
“I consider strongly that even minimal aid is healthier than no aid,” the governor stated.
Cameron’s letter stated his workplace had already been monitoring gasoline costs in Kentucky, and that 263 complaints had been logged along with his workplace because the begin of 2022.
It’s the type of give-and-take that Kentuckians can anticipate because the political banter heats up going into the 2023 statewide elections within the Bluegrass State. Cameron is amongst a number of candidates looking for the GOP nomination for governor subsequent yr, when Beshear will search a second time period.
The governor has taken different steps to attempt to provide aid to Kentuckians battered by rising costs.
Beshear lately took motion to freeze Kentucky’s gasoline tax, stopping a 2-cent-per-gallon enhance that might have taken impact July 1. The motion is predicted to save lots of Kentuckians an estimated $35.4 million. In February, the governor took govt motion to grant aid to Kentucky taxpayers hit with pandemic-related will increase of their car property tax payments.
Beshear touts the state’s financial improvement good points throughout his time period. He has landed the state’s two largest financial improvement tasks ever — each battery crops.
The governor stated Thursday that Kentucky’s unemployment fee has fallen to historic lows in back-to-back months. And the state has the fewest variety of residents drawing unemployment advantages since 2000, he stated.
Republican Home Speaker David Osborne later stated that the jobless charges present that the “pro-worker, pro-job insurance policies” enacted by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature are working.
“This announcement isn’t the results of press convention guarantees or ceremonial actions, however relatively the exhausting work, troublesome choice making, and forward-thinking management of legislators who know firsthand how heavy-handed authorities overreach harms the folks of Kentucky,” Osborne stated.
State GOP spokesman Sean Southard, in the meantime, pointed to an aluminum producer’s choice to briefly idle its smelter in Hawesville, Kentucky, on account of skyrocketing power prices
“Governor Beshear likes to say Kentucky’s economic system is on hearth, and because of the Biden-Beshear agenda, nothing might be extra true,” Southard stated in a press release.
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — Fifteen firefighters from Owensboro, Daviess Daviess County, Henderson, Greenville, Airport-Sorgho fire departments and the Fire Academy of Kentucky partook in international training in Olomouc.
Through a Sister Cities Firefighter exchange program, these firefighters engaged in hands-on training like residential firefighting and flashover drills.
The goal of an exchange like this is to not only strengthen everyday skills for these local firefighters, but to also increase strong international ties.
It is said they also participated in on-duty shifts with the Olomouc Fire Department, responding to emergencies and putting their new skills to practice.
During the day, the firefighter were immersed in various scenarios and training courses but at night, they were hitting the streets of Olomouc. They got to experience a “unique exposition of fall decorations” at “Fall Flora” and supported a home team hockey game.
After 5 full days in the Czech Republic, the local firefighters made their way back to Owensboro Saturday morning. Officials with OFD says they arrived at midnight and are now regaining their rest after countless hours of travel.
This week-long exchange comes just months after their previous endeavor to the Czech Republic in April.
(Courtesy: Owensboro-Daviess County Firefighter Exchange Program)
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A newly released video shows the moment when a Kentucky sheriff pointed his gun at a judge’s head before allegedly shooting and killing him.
The surveillance footage shows Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines, 43, and District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, in the judge’s chambers having what appeared to be a heated conversation on Sept. 19 before the sheriff pulled out his gun and pointed it at the judge.
Mullins was seen in the video sitting behind his desk when Stines pulled the gun, and Mullins then raised his hands and attempted to turn away just before Stines fired several rounds at him.
Earlier released footage of the shooting was played in court during a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, according to the Courier Journal.
KENTUCKY SHERIFF SEEN IN FOOTAGE SHOOTING AT JUDGE IN SHOCKING PRELIMINARY HEARING
The newly released video shows the moment when a Kentucky sheriff pointed his gun at a judge’s head before allegedly shooting and killing him. (Letcher County Handout)
The video showed Mullins seeking cover under his desk as Stines fired his gun. The sheriff then approached the judge, who was still under his desk, and shot him twice at close range before leaving the chambers, the footage shows.
Kentucky Detective Clayton Stamper testified that the sheriff surrendered immediately after the shooting.
Stines told police, “They’re trying to kidnap my wife and kid,” according to Stamper.
The sheriff and the judge had been friends for decades and had lunch together hours before the alleged killing.
Mullins was seen in the video sitting behind his desk when Stines pulled the gun, and Mullins then raised his hands and attempted to turn away just before Stines fired several rounds at him. (Letcher County Handout)
Stamper said additional surveillance footage from inside the chambers that has not been shown in court or publicly released captured the sheriff using his and Mullins’ phones to make multiple calls to his daughter just before the shooting, according to the Courier Journal.
Police found Stines’ daughter’s phone number saved in the judge’s phone, Stamper said.
Defense attorney Jeremy Bartley declined to reveal a possible motive for the shooting, but authorities reportedly said the incident was being investigated as a possible sex scandal.
KENTUCKY SHERIFF CHARGED WITH FATALLY SHOOTING JUDGE DEPOSED IN RAPE-RELATED CASE DAYS EARLIER
District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was allegedly killed by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, in his judge’s chambers. (Kentucky Court of Justice; Letcher County Sheriff’s Office)
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“Our investigators seized the two cell phones, and they’re being analyzed,” Kentucky State Police Trooper Matt Gayheart previously told the Daily Mail.
Stines announced Monday that he was retiring as sheriff.
He pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and is being held at the Leslie County Jail. His case was sent to a grand jury for indictment.
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