State Government

All retail stores can open Wednesday, and restaurants can have limited openings Friday. Also Friday, gatherings of up to 10 people will also be allowed.

Set for openings this week are government offices, retail stores and restaurants.

Lake Barkley State Resort Park will remain closed as it provides housing for first-responders during the coronavirus outbreak.

Sisk Auto Mall is encouraging all visitors to the Hopkinsville dealership to wear a mask, but it will not be a requirement. Masks will be available for customers who want one, owner Wilson Sisk said.

A letter initiated by South Carolina's attorney general was sent May 9 to the leadership of the House and Senate Foreign Relations committees.

The governor said his main disappointment is that two churches that fought the ban on in-person worship took attention away from 7,000 congregations that followed the restriction.

That case was filed by Maryville Baptist Church in Hillview, which Beshear has said is the only church he knows of that has violated his order, and the only one where attendees were given notices to self-quarantine.

The governor said the pandemic is "still pretty stable," despite reporting 625 new cases, including 309 from a state prison in Muhlenberg County.

On May 20, retail may re-open and churches may hold in-person services, both at reduced capacity.

The first phase of health-care reopenings includes non-urgent, non-emergency and diagnostic services.

Eights guests who represent the state's health and business interests are scheduled to appear on the show.

This is the second lawsuit stemming from the coronavirus pandemic to come out of northern Kentucky.