Sanders-Brown Center on Aging receives $8 million grant for Alzheimer’s research

by LINDA BLACKFORD, [email protected] – The University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded an $8.25 million, five-year grant to continue its work on Alzheimer’s disease. The grant will continue Sanders-Brown’s designation as an Alzheimer’s Disease Center, one of only 30 in the country. UK’s center was among the first 10 centers designated in 1985, and…

Did judge retire at filing deadline to help his wife succeed him?

by GREG KOCHER, [email protected] – The timing of a family court judge’s announcement of his resignation — and the subsequent filing by his wife to succeed him — has raised questions in Clark and Madison counties about whether the retirement was orchestrated to prevent competition from other potential candidates. Jeffrey Walson, who retired effective Aug. 7, denies the…