Biotechnology company opens mosquito factory in Lexington

BY MONICA KAST [email protected] – A Lexington biotechnology company aimed at fighting mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus opened a mosquito factory Friday on Malabu Drive. MosquitoMate, a biotechnology company founded by University of Kentucky entomology professor Stephen Dobson, will use the 6,000-square-foot space to raise millions of sterile, non-biting mosquitoes that will act…

Promised changes to Jefferson Davis statue in Capitol don’t exist nearly two years later

BY JACK BRAMMER FRANKFORT – Nearly two years after rejecting requests to remove a controversial statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Kentucky’s Capitol Rotunda, a state panel that promised to produce educational materials to help put the statue in historical context is only now beginning its work. Raoul Cunningham, president of the state and Louisville…