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…

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Following executive order, Gov. Matt Bevin appoints non-voting advisers to Board of Education

BY: Kirsten Clark , @kirstenlmclark – Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed four non-voting, non-member advisers to the Kentucky Board of Education, according to a press release issued Monday evening. The move comes just days after Bevin signed an executive order restructuring various education-related boards and councils in the Commonwealth. The four new advisers are: Tracey Cusick,…

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Pikeville psychologist charged in Conn disability fraud scheduled to begin trial Monday

BY: BY BILL ESTEP [email protected] – The trial was scheduled to begin Monday for the only person who will go before a jury in a case involving alleged massive disability fraud in Eastern Kentucky. Pikeville psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins was charged with well-known attorney Eric C. Conn and David B. Daugherty, an administrative law judge who heard appeals…

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