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Company officials believe the attack came from a criminal group likely based in Russia. The FBI is investigating.
One goal is to do repairs that allow older adults to “age in place” instead of going to a nursing home.
Established in 1983, the program has a mission to broaden Kentucky’s next generation of civic and economic leaders.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is wading into a precedent-setting legal battle to determine if the fees associated with expunging a criminal record can be waived for people who can’t afford them.
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While their friends are cannonballing into the city pool this weekend, Tracy Staley's sons will spend the day in an Eastern Kentucky cemetery, placing flowers on the graves of relatives they never knew.
The country's vaccination rate has fallen sharply from more than 3 million shots a day in early April to 1.62 million.
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A Calloway County farmer sees part of the solution to greenhouse gas emissions in his own soil, where he says, "I'm letting Mother Nature work here."
The tuition-free college degree program is named for the Kentucky author, poet, farmer and conservationist.
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The documentary on Garlin Murl Conner also tells the story of a campaign by his widow and friends to see the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to him in 2018 by then-President Trump.
The state chamber and the public-policy school at UK say they will try to "find new ways to bridge Kentucky’s urban-rural divide" with a series of webinars called the Kentucky Public Policy Roundtable Series.
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Beshear has said the state will continue to participate in the program, despite escalating claims from businesses and Republicans that the benefit is causing a worker shortage.
In addition to farming, half of all farm families have at least one adult working an additional full-time job, often for health insurance coverage. It’s an affordable option, but pulls time and energy away from farm work.