Tagged: Richie Farmer

Former Kentucky agriculture commissioner Richie Farmer will be in court this morning asking for a reduction to his child support payments.   Farmer says he's making the request because he no longer holds the top position at the state’s agriculture department and will be incapacitated for two months following surgery later this month. Farmer's lawyer has said the former U-K basketball star hasn't been employed since his term expired January First. Farmer and his wife divorced last month.

The Kentucky Personnel Board will open an investigation into alleged improprieties at the Department of Agriculture under former Commissioner Richie Farmer. Farmer served in the post from 2004 to 2011. 

Today on NPR: The European Union is set to stop all purchases of Iranian oil on July 1.

Around the Commonwealth:

Paducah Public Schools will use a state grant to hire a full-time coordinator to work with homeless students.

Former Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has put his Frankfort home up for sale a month after a bank filed a foreclosure lawsuit on the property. 

Today on NPR:For $75, This Guy Will Sell You 1,000 Facebook 'Likes'

Around the Commonwealth:

Kentucky Senate President David Williams says he had no idea what trouble his former gubernatorial running mate Richie Farmer was causing as agriculture commissioner.

Kentucky Senate President David Williams says he had no idea what trouble his former gubernatorial running mate Richie Farmer was causing as agriculture commissioner.