Regional & State

Critics of the proposal say lawmakers are putting hungry children at risk just to address a small number of people who have scammed the system.

Bevin leads among men, older and rural voters while Beshear has more support with women, younger voters in metropolitan areas, according to the poll.

State Sen. Whitney Westerfield, who opposes Court of Appeals Judge Christopher Shea Nickell, said he thinks his speech has been in line with the code for state judicial candidates.

The survey was conducted first by online and mail-in surveys, which received more than 2,000 responses.

Hundreds of farmers across the Ohio Valley are finally getting to harvest thousands of acres of hemp, the first large crop since the federal government legalized hemp cultivation last December.

Louisville resident Joseph Jackson filed the lawsuit last month, arguing that the two years Cameron spent as a clerk for a federal judge should not count as years spent as a practicing attorney.

As of August, the state had 3,259,257 registered voters, according to data from the Secretary of State's Office. Democrats had 1,597,244 registered voters. Republicans had 1,382,874.

Since 1996, the red wolf has been on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of critically endangered species.

The Court invoked the seminal 1803 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Marbury v. Madison, in expounding on the proper role of the courts in interpreting laws enacted by the General Assembly.

In his ruling, Chief Justice John Minton wrote that the case “should serve as a cautionary tale to all Kentucky judges who use social media.”

Several advertisements are funded by independent political groups that are either trying to support their candidate of choice or knock down an opponent.

Farmers who want to sell electricity to utilities generally lease land to power companies to build the panels.