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In the 1963 Democratic primary, Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt Jr. defeated a former governor, A.B. “Happy” Chandler, for his party’s nomination. Then he beat the Republican nominee by approximately 13,000 votes.

Beshear tapped his top deputy in the attorney general’s office, J. Michael Brown, to head up his transition team as they begin the process of taking over Kentucky’s executive branch.

Homegrown Poems, co-sponsored by Hoptown Chronicle and WKMS, was presented in support of Hopkinsville's Big Read.

Westerfield had a large margin of victory in Christian County but it wasn't enough to win the district.

Voter turnout was several percentage points higher than local election officials had expected.

The nickel tax, which the school board approved to increase the district's bonding capacity, was sought to replace the county's two aging high schools.

The president spoke for more than an hour to a packed crowd at Rupp Arena in Lexington and was joined by both of Kentucky’s U.S. senators and all five of the state’s Republican congressmen.

Beshear, the state's attorney general, is trying to prevent Republican Matt Bevin from winning a second term as governor.

The pilot was an orthopedic surgeon from Paducah.

The ruling means that the court didn’t ultimately determine whether Hands On Originals violated Lexington’s fairness ordinance.