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President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Hunter Biden,...
Jurors at Ramic trial hear from ISIS expert
BOWLING GREEN — The second week of Mirsad Ramic’s trial on charges related to his alleged ISIS membership began Monday with jurors hearing from an expert on the designated foreign terrorist organization. Ramic, 34, is on trial in U.S. District Court on charges of providing material support and...
Kentucky Supreme Court disqualifies state lawmaker after primary win
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Supreme Court has struck down a state lawmaker’s recent win in the Democrat primary, leaving open the question of who will fill the Louisville House seat. The Supreme Court ruled Friday that an appeals court was correct to disqualify state Rep. Nima Kulkarni from...
‘Cannot do this alone:’ Fatal drug overdoses down, more work to be done
FRANKFORT — Once the de facto capital of the opioid epidemic, Kentucky is a now a national model for treatment, recovery and prevention. Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that drug overdose deaths declined 9.8% from 2022 to 2023 in Kentucky, compared to a three percent national decrease. According to...
Possibility of cannabis business operations in Clark County included on November ballot
This upcoming November, many are focused on the presidential race. However, Clark County will have another initiative on the ballot. As the Clark County Fiscal Court recently discussed, voters will have a chance to decide on a referendum determining whether cannabis business operations may occur in Clark County. The Court...
Mental Health Symposium: Harm Reduction and Syringe Exchange
May 2024 was Mental Health Awareness Month. Ephraim McDowell Health and the Rotary Club of Danville partnered to host a Mental Health Symposium on May 29 at the Boyle County Library to encourage discussion about mental health in the community. At the symposium, Boyle County Agency for Substance Abuse Policy...
Students as experts: Kentucky chosen for national mental health program
Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman has a bachelor’s degree in education, a secondary education certification, a master’s degree and is nearly finished with her doctorate. But while she takes the blood-borne pathogen training every year, she’s never had any training on student mental health. “What that tells me...
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe’s new war
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to battle the Nazis. Now bent with age, the dwindling number of World War II veterans joined a new generation of leaders on Thursday to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy on the shores where they landed 80 years ago on D-Day.
Kentucky Democratic governor pushes back against Trump-led attacks on electric vehicles
FRANKFORT — Electric vehicles have built up enough momentum from job growth and investments to steer past any roadblocks from Donald Trump and other critics, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. The Democratic governor said the thousands of EV-related jobs springing up across the country, including in rural GOP...
More witnesses testify against Ramic at ISIS trial
A series of witnesses testifying under pseudonyms or behind closed doors has attempted to tie Mirsad Ramic to involvement with designated foreign terror group ISIS through either online chats or personal interactions. Ramic, 34, of Bowling Green, is on trial in U.S. District Court, where he has been charged with...
Be prepared for black bear sightings this summer
FRANKFORT — Conservation officers and biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) want to remind the public that sightings of black bears can occur outside of their primary range, especially in early summer. As young males disperse from their primary range in spring and summer...
Relations between Moscow and Washington won’t change no matter who wins the US election, Putin says
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that nothing will change in terms of Russia-U.S. relations regardless of who wins the American presidential election in November. “We will work with any president the American people will elect,” Putin said as he took questions from international journalists...
Muhammad Ali’s childhood home is for sale in Kentucky after being converted into a museum
LOUISVILLE — The pink house where Muhammad Ali grew up dreaming of boxing fame — and where hundreds of fans gathered for an emotional send-off as his funeral procession passed by decades later — is up for sale. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Louisville was converted into...
Kentucky governor unveils rental housing projects for region still recovering from 2021 tornadoes
FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that a rental housing shortage has gnawed at him since the recovery began from a terrifying tornado outbreak that hit western parts of the state in late 2021. The Bluegrass State took an unprecedented step toward alleviating the chronic shortfall...
Nebraska funeral home discovers hospice patient was still alive hours after being declared dead
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died hours later. It’s not clear how...
Jury selected in trial of BG man accused of joining ISIS
Three years after he was indicted by a grand jury and eight years after a criminal complaint was filed to open the case, a jury has been seated in the trial of a Bowling Green man accused of leaving the country to train and fight with ISIS. Mirsad Ramic, 34,...
Read to Succeed: Kentucky education officials provide early literacy update
PARIS – In 2022, the Read to Succeed Act changed the way Kentucky kids learn to read. Monday, several lawmakers, the current and incoming education commissioner and the director of a new statewide reading research center shared updates on the Commonwealth’s literacy efforts. Before reading to children as...
Top Kentucky senators talk leadership at WKU lunch
A pair of Kentucky state senators gave some insight into their leadership Thursday at a southcentral Kentucky event. The executive luncheon, hosted by the Kentucky Center for Leadership, took place at the Western Kentucky University Alumni Center. Republican Senator and President Pro Tempore David Givens, R-Greensburg, joined Democratic Senator and...
Kentucky politicians react to Trump guilty verdict
Thursday evening, after two days of deliberation, a Manhattan jury convicted former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s presidential election, was indicted for falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 election.
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