Ralph Baze was sentenced to death in 1994 on his conviction for the 1992 murders of Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and deputy Arthur Briscoe, and has remained on death row.
Hardin County Sheriff Jon Ward's office "was trying to hide from the public that it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money to address officer wrongdoing," according to First Amendment Attorney Mike Abate.
The AG's office filed a lawsuit in Franklin Circuit Court on Tuesday after receiving complaints about Margaret's Moving and Storage, owned and operated by Margaret and Arthur "Stormy" Weathers.
The commonwealth of Kentucky reached a $110 million settlement with Kroger for its role in the opioid crisis.
Mayor Craig Greenberg and attorney General Russell Coleman announced the Violent Crime Reduction Team on Thursday.
State and local prosecutors will appeal a Louisville judge's ruling last week that a convicted felon can't be prosecuted on a firearms charge because it violates his Second Amendment rights.