A Kentucky state senator is dead a month after he sustained injuries from a lawn mower accident. Johnnie Turner, a Republican who represented a district in eastern Kentucky, died on Tuesday evening after a "hard-fought battle,

Funeral arrangements have been set for state Sen. Johnnie Turner, of Harlan, an attorney who died Tuesday of injuries sustained last month in a lawn mower accident.

State Sen. Johnnie Turner's accidental death has left Kentucky political leaders in grief. The 76-year-old was riding a lawn mower when he fell into an empty swimming pool on September 15.