Jennifer Brislin

Ky. won't appeal ruling that delays executions

Ky. won't appeal lethal injection ruling, must hold hearings before resuming executions. Kentucky executions are on hold after the state said Friday it won't appeal a ruling that found it failed to follow proper administrative procedures when it adopted its lethal injection method.
 

AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT

AP News in Brief. Lieberman says most health care reforms can wait until economy pulls out of recession
 

Insurance adjusters look at Ky. prison after riot

Insurance adjusters sift through what's left of Kentucky prison after fiery riot. Officials said Sunday that investigators and insurance adjusters have started probing what's left of a Kentucky prison in the wake of a fiery riot that injured 16 people and forced 700 inmates to be relocated.
 

4 Ky. inmates still hospitalized after prison riot

Four prisoners remained hospitalized and hundreds of others had to be relocated Saturday after rioting inmates set their central Kentucky prison on fire.