Only five ferry boats still exist on the Ohio River, including one that carries cars and trucks between rural Western Kentucky and Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.
The rise in calls indicates both a surge in students struggling with their mental health and a sign of increased awareness of the issue, officials said.
Some had hoped for mandated raises for all teachers, but the Kentucky School Boards Association argues that the funding increases made locally approved raises more feasible for many districts.
The governor commented on reports that family members of former president Trump, in Kentucky recently for a political event, repeated lies about the 2020 election being stolen.
The group included eight WWII veterans who arrived before daylight, some on canes, others in wheelchairs, for their daylong trip to the nation’s capital.
