BY MICHON LINDSTROM FRANKFORT, Ky. – If you are already tired of political ads you may want to stop watching TV, it’s only going to get worse. With just 63 days until the general election, Kentucky’s airwaves are about to get flooded. “You’re getting ready to see a deluge of television ads even from the down…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM FRANKFORT, Ky. – The election is just 63 days away and while all eyes have been on the governor’s race—the battle to become the next attorney general is heating up. The Republican Attorneys General Association announced a whopping $3.25 million on television advertisements in support of Republican Daniel Cameron. This is the largest…
by AARON MUDD amudd@bgdailynews.com Kentucky’s new 5-star school accountability system will soon make its debut with the release of state testing results for the 2018-19 school year in either late September or early October. On Wednesday and Thursday, a group of education stakeholders and policymakers will take the next major step when they meet to…
By Eleanor Klibanoff When a woman walked into Baptist Health’s hospital in suburban Louisville last year and said she’d been raped, the hospital did what they usually did: started calling around to see if there was another hospital they could send her to. Since Baptist Health didn’t have a trained sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) available,…
BY MICHON LINDSTROM | KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A rally to bring awareness to overdose deaths brought the two Kentucky Attorney General candidates together. Fed Up! hosted the Fifth Annual International Overdose Death Awareness Day Rally in downtown Louisville where Democrat Greg Stumbo and Republican Daniel Cameron showed up to show support. Both candidates have made ending…
BY MICHAEL CADIGAN KENTUCKY LEXINGTON, Ky. – Most children who are deaf or hard of hearing are born to hearing parents who don’t have experience with hearing health care or sign language. Kristi Grider remembered when her son, Kenton, was diagnosed with severe hearing loss. “That was a very dark day for me because I wasn’t expecting that and…
By COLIN DWYER Confronted with a torrent of lawsuits across the U.S., several major drug companies are in discussions with authorities to resolve thousands of opioid-related suits filed against them. A government source close to the negotiations tells NPR that Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Endo International and Allergan are looking to cut deals. The health…
By TOM LATEK, Kentucky Today FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – A ceremonial bill signing was held at the Capitol on Tuesday for legislation that requires health insurance plans to cover genetic tests for cancer. Sen. Ralph Alvarado, R-Winchester, sponsored the measure, which was approved during the 2019 General Assembly. “For a lot of cancers, there…
By WILL STONE Originally published on August 27, 2019 4:43 pm Researchers hoping to study marijuana for scientific and medical purposes are one step closer to expanding their limited supply of the plant. This week, the federal government announced it would begin processing dozens of pending applications for permission to cultivate the plant for scientific research. The U.S.…
by Chad Mills and Jason Riley Sen. Morgan McGarvey says he’s already working to remedy a problem spotlighted by a WDRB News Sunday Edition. (WDRB Photo) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Kentucky state senator says he’s working on a remedy after a WDRB News Sunday Edition pointed out a gap in state law. “It’s been scary as…