Kentucky TV journalist Barry Peel covered state politics, dead at 80

Kentucky TV journalist Barry Peel covered state politics, dead at 80

Barry Peel moderated numerous candidate debates in Kentucky. (Facebook)Barry Peel, Frankfort correspondent for WKYT and WTVQ television stations in Lexington for more than 30 years, died Friday, Oct. 31, at Stanford Crossing, a rehabilitation center in Stanford. He was 80. Dan Waters, a childhood friend of Peel, classmate at Lancaster High School and longtime neighbor in Lancaster, confirmed the death. Peel had been hospitalized and in nursing h…