by The Associated Press – LOUISVILLE, KY. – After nearly 30 years of conservation efforts, Kentucky’s white-haired goldenrod has been removed from a list of federally protected plants, officials said Friday. The yellow fall-blooming perennial flower was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1988 after nearly disappearing from the Red River Gorge area…
By Lisa Gillespie – Dr. Robert Friedland has been working with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients for more than 30 years. And he still doesn’t know how they developed the diseases. Less than 1 percent of patients have a gene that can lead to either disease. For the rest, it’s a big unknown. But Friedland’s latest research shows that…
by Mary Troyan , @orndorfftroyan – WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul was a renegade political outsider before it was cool. Kentucky’s junior senator arrived on the Washington scene six years ago with a message similar to one Donald Trump used to win the GOP presidential nomination: The country is run by a corrupt cabal and only a non-politician can…
By Michael Gossum | BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — Andy Beshear spent time in multiple parts of the 13 News viewing area Wednesday. Beshear gave Rotarians a state of the union like speech for his office in Bowling Green. The first term democrat talked about fighting scammers and helping the commonwealth’s senior citizens. Beshear is coming…
by The Associated Press – BEREA, KY. — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been in Kentucky to announce a program to reduce rural poverty nationwide. The project involves a partnership with 26 community development organizations to give long-term, low-interest financing to local entities for community facilities and services, such as education, health care and infrastructure. The…
By Gil Corsey – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — They pollute public water, abandon failing sewage plants and stick taxpayers with the bill — and it’s all legal. Kentucky established statutes for a utility company to abandon sewage plants decades ago as the state’s population moved into suburbs and towns where infrastructure and services had not been established. But old…
by Joseph Gerth , @Joe_Gerth – Dan Johnson, the Bullitt County preacher who had photos on his Facebook page depicting President Barack Obama as an ape, defiantly said on Tuesday that he would not follow the wishes of his Republican Party and end his campaign for the state legislature. Instead, standing outside the Bullitt County Courthouse,…
By Tanner Hesterberg | HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) – Kentucky’s two U.S. senators visited the eastern part of the state Tuesday to herald the recent opioid bill. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul made a stop at Kentucky River Community Care in Hazard for a discussion on how the legislation they helped pass could help stop…
by Tom Loftus and Morgan Watkins , The Courier-Journal – House Speaker Greg Stumbo announced Wednesday he is appointing a committee to investigate what he says have been threats by Gov. Matt Bevin against state lawmakers. The committee will be looking into instances where Bevin may have “forcefully” pressured lawmakers to switch to the GOP, Stumbo…
by VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS, vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com – The birthday cutoff for kindergarten in Kentucky is moving up two months from Oct. 1 to Aug. 1 for the 2017-18 school year. The change means that most children will have to turn 5 by Aug. 1, 2017, in order to enter kindergarten for the 2017-18 school year. But Fayette County Public…