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The Owensboro Comic & Toy Convention will bring together fans of pop culture for a weekend of all things “geek”. -
After a months long national search, outgoing state Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has been named the fourth president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
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Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled.
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A flying instructor and student pilot are dead after crashing a small plane in a rural area of Ohio County.The FAA notified Kentucky State Police around 11:00 p.m. Wednesday night that a plane was missing from radar in the Whitesville area that includes parts of Ohio and Daviess counties.
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Now, sportsbooks like FanDuel and DraftKing that partnered with the racetrack companies can offer online sports gambling directly to users anywhere in the state.
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The former boyfriend of a central Kentucky woman who disappeared more than eight years ago has been arrested on charges stemming from the investigation, the FBI and Kentucky State Police said Wednesday in a statement.Brooks Houck was arrested without incident on charges stemming from the Crystal Rogers investigation, the statement said.
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Some Kentuckians could lose essential federal assistance in the case of a government shutdown.The Biden administration says the WIC program — formally known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — needs additional, emergency funding to keep serving families.
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In the "Safer Kentucky Act," Louisville Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds, and ban "street camping" and homeless encampments in public areas.
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A Bowling Green business is reopening after being closed more than a-year-and-a-half due to the deadly tornadoes in southern and western Kentucky.
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The festival honors the heritage and diversity of area residents through music, dance, demonstrations, authentic foreign foods, cultural displays, and activities. It’s grown every year since it began in 1989, and 2023 is no exception, with a stacked list of vendors and performers ready to entertain guests for the entire day.
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An entire city in Jefferson County is slated to disappear, thanks to a relatively new Kentucky law. The municipality of Poplar Hills went defunct years ago and now the state is trying to get rid of it and other so-called “ghost cities.”
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Kentucky led the nation 27 years ago when it created a crime victim notification system called VINE.Now, that potentially life-saving service is no longer working.
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Kentucky is among 16 states whose governors received letters this week noting funding disparities between historically Black land-grant institutions and their predominantly white counterparts. The total disparity amounts to $12 billion.
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During a forum hosted by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican challenger Daniel Cameron didn’t share the stage, but instead independently spoke to a packed room of local business leaders and elected officials about issues like Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion and whether to continue cutting the state’s income tax.
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During his campaign for governor, Cameron has repeatedly said he supports Kentucky’s near-total “trigger” ban on abortion as it currently stands.
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The case, brought by the Kentucky Democratic Party, hinges on whether state courts can prohibit partisan gerrymandering – the process where politicians manipulate electoral maps to favor their party through redistricting.
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The state panel will decide in the next few months whether to invest $42 million of Kentucky’s nearly $900 million in opioid lawsuit settlement funds. Bryan Hubbard, the commission’s chair, proposed the plan earlier this year.
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