UPDATE: Kentucky Senator-elect Johnnie Turner’s building burns in Harlan, 22-year-old man charged

By Jordan Whitaker, Dakota Makres and Cory Sanning Update 11/29/2020 9:50 p.m.: On Saturday night, emergency crews responded to a building fire in downtown Harlan inside a structure owned by Kentucky Senator-elect Johnnie Turner. “I got a phone call from one of the ladies that rents up there who said that the two boys were fighting and he was…

Warren County schools cease in-person instruction following Governor’s orders

By Ashton Jones BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – The Warren County Public School district is commenting on the halt of in-person instruction. All public and private schools ceased in-person classes beginning November 23 following the Governor’s executive order. The Warren County Public Schools’ Assistant Superintendent Melissa Stephanski says, before, the schools were offering the options of online or…

CPE report shows Kentucky colleges and universities make substantial progress toward education goals

Kentucky colleges and universities continued to make substantial progress toward the state’s educational attainment goals in 2019-20, exceeding targets for both STEM+H degrees and degrees among underrepresented minority students. According to the latest figures from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, production of undergraduate credentials rose 3.3 percent compared to the prior year. That’s nearly…