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This year's Kwanzaa celebration, returning to Hopkinsville for the third year in a row, is being held virtually.

Less than a month after he moved from running a hospital emergency department to leading the state Department for Public Health, Kentucky's first case of COVID-19 was reported.

Based on the state’s calculation of the total amount available for direct payments to households, an estimated 85% of Kentuckians are eligible for the payments.

The new council's first regular meeting is scheduled for Jan. 5

Only parents and guardians will be allowed to attend basketball games and swim meets.

Rep. Myron Dossett is sponsoring the bill that aims to waive state income taxes and fees for utility and communication businesses and employees while they respond to natural, out-of-state disasters. He said it’s important because unlike other states, Kentucky utility employees are still required to pay Kentucky rates, even when working out of state.

For the week of Dec. 18 through 24, the hospital reached record highs for the total number of inpatient beds occupied by coronavirus patients and its overall proportion of COVID-19 patients.

An update from AT&T Sunday afternoon stated the telecommunication company hoped to have service restored to all customers late Sunday.

AT&T is expected to deploy 24 additional portable cell sites by the end of the day.

Hoptown Chronicle has compiled several area hotspots that may be helpful to residents looking to connect during the outage.

Large corporations like Walmart will survive, but smaller businesses unable to process credit card transactions may be faced with a significant financial crunch if this situation is prolonged.

As of 4:50 p.m., AT&T said the company was beginning to restore power to its downtown Nashville facility and it was hopeful the building's equipment "may be back online in the hours ahead."