by Annie Andersen – WILMORE, KY (Spectrum News) — Voting in this coming election will be a little easier for Kentucky’s veterans. In front of dozens of veterans at the Thompson-Hood Veterans Center, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced all four veterans centers in Kentucky would become polling precincts. Grimes says this has been something…
By Lisa Gillespie – A consumer advocacy group is asking the federal government to halt a clinical trial that will involve patients at the University of Kentucky. The nonprofit group Public Citizen sent a letter Tuesday to the federal Office for Human Research Protections, raising concerns about a trial to measure two treatments for sepsis, the…
The Kentucky Medical Association (KMA) presented its Debra K. Best Outstanding Layperson Award to Representative Kim Moser of Taylor Mill during the Leadership Dinner at the 2018 KMA Annual Meeting. The award is given to a non-physician or group in Kentucky who has made outstanding contributions in the field of public health and/or medical care.…
By WYMT News Staff | (WYMT) – President Donald Trump’s nomination of an Eastern Kentucky man to serve on the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service was approved Tuesday. U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell commented on the Senate’s confirmation of Robert M. “Mike” Duncan of Inez: “I would like…
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves has announced the conservation of over 1,000 acres of forest with rare species habitat for their Wild Rivers Program. These additions to the Steele Hollow Watershed Conservation Area in Wayne and McCreary counties were funded with assistance from the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund (KHLCF), the…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the passing of his dear friend and colleague, U.S. Senator John S. McCain (R-AZ): “On Saturday evening, a great loss echoed through our country. Six decades of patriotic service came to an end. We’ve suspected for some time…
WATCH: U.S. Rep. James Comer on the trade war strategy By Gene Birk | BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — When we interviewed U.S. Congressman James Comer last week, he predicted today’s Mexico announcement, when we talked about the trade wars the U.S. and some other nations are currently involved in, which are causing concern for farmers.…
by The Associated Press – FRANKFORT, KY. — A union that represents staff members at the Kentucky Education Association held an informational demonstration over contract negotiations. The Courier Journal reports members of the Kentucky Education Association Staff Organization picketed Saturday in Frankfort a few blocks from the state Capitol where the KEA held massive protests aimed…
by ASSOCIATED PRESS – A judge has granted supporters of a measure that would expand Kentucky’s Constitution to bolster rights for crime victims the right to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to keep the proposal off the November ballot, or that its votes not be counted. The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports a motion filed to intervene in the…
by Rachel Adkins | The Daily Independent – Matt Hale, Kentucky chairman of the National Parents Organization (left), and Sen. Robin Webb, D-Grayson. Submitted photo FRANKFORT Matt Hale believes the most popular law to be passed in Kentucky this year might be the one regarding shared parenting. The law creates a presumption that joint custody…