by The Associated Press – FRANKFORT, KY. — Five Kentucky county fairs have been awarded grants totaling more than $455,000 from the state Department of Agriculture. State Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles says the grants are for fairground construction and remodeling. The department says the fair boards in Nelson, Harrison and Hancock counties will receive $100,000 each.…
by Bailey Loosemore , @bloosemore – For 20 years, the Volunteers of America Mid-States was able to get by with eight to 10 beds in its Freedom House program, which provides residential treatment for pregnant women struggling with addiction. But since 2013, a community-wide rise in heroin and opioid use has caused the nonprofit to see a drastic…
by Krystle Callais – LEXINGTON, KY –Two U.S. Senate candidates will be stopping in the western Kentucky area on Monday. Senator Rand Paul and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray will be making stops across Kentucky as a final push to get votes. Both are running for the U.S. Senate seat which Paul currently holds. Locally, Paul…
by Ryland Barton – Election night in Frankfort last year was supposed to be a celebration for Kentucky Democrats ushering Attorney General Jack Conway into the governorship, just as all the polls had predicted would happen. Instead, at the GOP bash in Louisville, newly elected Gov. Matt Bevin led the crowd in the now-familiar chant of…
By Michael Gossum – GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO) — Steve Riley and Danny Basil both hope to become the next person to be the state representative for the 23rd district. The republican, Riley, is well known in the county for being the Barren County High School boys basketball coach. Likewise, democrat Danny Basil, is well known for…
by Melissa Reinert , mstewart@communitypress.com – Lucas Deaton and Kimberly Poore Moser will face off on Election Day in Kentucky’s 64th House District race. Rep. Thomas Kerr’s retirement from the 64th House District earlier this year leaving the seat open this election. The district encompasses areas primarily south of Interstate 275 in Independence and Taylor Mill…
by Scott Wartman , swartman@nky.com – The Senate race in Kentucky has come to life with about a week left. The week started with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul calling his Democratic challenger, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray a hypocrite in the only debate between the two. Gray described Paul’s ideas as “wild-ass philosophies.” Now both Paul and…
Trump tells early voters to recall their ballots Gov. Matt Bevin said Tuesday he was offended by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments about groping women but seemed even more offended by Trump’s critics during an interview with WHAS Radio’s Terry Meiners on Tuesday afternoon. The governor made his first public statement about the controversial…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s top election official estimates 60 percent of the state’s registered voters will cast ballots on Tuesday. Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said that’s on par with the turnout from the 2012 presidential election, when 59 percent of registered voters cast ballots. In 2008, the turnout was 64 percent.…
by Kevin Wheatley, @KWheatley_cn2 – LEXINGTON — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray clashed in their first and only debate Monday evening, with both candidates sliding into familiar lines of attack eight days before voters hit the polls. Gray hit Paul for his “wild ass philosophies and theories” and presidential aspirations during the hourlong…