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The city had expected to spend $1.4 million in reserve funds to balance the budget but the deficit was much less.

As a candidate in 2015, Bevin initially said he would abolish the expansion, then said he would request a waiver of federal Medicaid rules so beneficiaries would have "skin in the game" through premiums, co-payments, deductibles or health savings accounts. After he was elected, he added "community engagement" requirements including work, but those have been blocked in federal court.

The Kentucky Sports Radio host says he hasn't decided if he'll get in the 2020 Senate race.

The governor touted Kentucky's low unemployment rate and investments made by businesses.

The session would deal with massive increases in pension costs to regional universities, health departments and others.

One improvement project on East Sixth Street is moving ahead and will create new free parking downtown, but another project in the same block has been delayed indefinitely out of concerns about the potential for loitering and vagrancy.

Proponents of raising the legal age to buy tobacco to 21 say McConnell's bill doesn't go far enough but add it could be the opening bid to change.

Gov. Matt Bevin and his Democratic challengers, Attorney General Andy Beshear, will share the stage Aug. 3 at Fancy Farm.

Bernard Standard has led the Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission since 1990. A native of Memphis, he moved to Hopkinsville in 1978 to work for a loan company.

State policymakers could consider everything from extending voting hours on Election Day to flexibility in voting locations.

If the measure passes on second reading, the county's two distilleries will be able to sell liquor by the drink on Sundays.

Hopkinsville City Council members were asked to consider a pit bull ban after two attacks in the past week left three people with serious injuries.