Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky
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Beshear asks Trump to reconsider federal changes to Head Start
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Kentucky’s drug czar to retire after 22 years on the job
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking.
I’ve still never watched the movie Titanic
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‘A political prisoner’: Roebling Bridge ICE protestor now faced with felony charge, arrested
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Appeals court denies South Dakota’s defense of ban on abortion pill advertising
Around 14,000 families receiving KY Transitional Assistance Program benefits in 2025 didn’t receive most child support owed to them, experts say.
In 2027, Sen. Craig Richardson plans to renew his push to reform the process.
Democrats in the KY House are hosting a "listening session" on data centers this morning with about 50 people in a room at the state capitol attending. Various people will speak — will have a few updates throughout the speakers.
Her lawyers said in emergency legal filings that after two syringes of lethal drugs were administered, Pike did not lose consciousness and still had a heartbeat, and that she described a burning pain in her arm. She has since been hospitalized.
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RIP to this green shirt, which I bought sometime around 2013 at a Rue 21 and wore it into the ground until it has reached its current condition of being about to fall apart.
Tomorrow the Lexington Herald-Leader will lose a lot of great journalists, including most of the people who have been covering Kentucky politics and state government for us. Here's a too-quick summary of our losses, and yours. ^JC
KY’s Beshear backs black lung bill in Congress
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