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Boys Prep Athlete of the Year had dominating seasons in two sports
The AL.com Boys State Prep Athlete of the Year has a resume that seems too good to be true. Super All-State in basketball. Most Valuable Player for the champions in the basketball state tournament to wrap up a 33-0 season. All-State in football. Rated a four-star recruit by 247sports. He signed a football scholarship with the University of Kentucky as a defensive back after notching 56 tackles with an interception and a forced fumble as a senior. At quarterback, he passed for 1,584 yards and 23 touchdowns and ran for 561 yards with 12 more scores.
Indiana Town Backs Out of Pride Festival – Now It’s Getting Sued
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the town of Loogootee, Indiana, because it believes that the town violated people’s First Amendment rights by rescinding their approval for a Pride festival. Reversing Decisions. Organized by a local LGBTQ+ advocacy group called Tri-State Alliance, the town initially granted permission for...
Kentucky’s June jobless rate unchanged from April, May
Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary June 2024 unemployment rate was 4.6 percent, according to data released Thursday by the Kentucky Center for Statistics, an agency within the Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet. The preliminary June 2024 jobless rate was unchanged from both April and May 2024 but is up 0.5 percentage points from one year ago. […] The post Kentucky’s June jobless rate unchanged from April, May appeared first on Harlan Enterprise.
URGENT: These 8 Kentucky Shelter Dogs Need Forever Homes NOW!
Daviess County Animal Care and Control volunteer and friend Kristi Palazzi just made an urgent post on social media. She shared photos of eight different dogs who are at risk of euthanasia. She wrote, "It breaks our hearts to make these posts. The staff and volunteers love these dogs so much and this is our plea to the community."
Shepherdsville aquatic center now in the works
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Shepherdsville city officials broke ground on a $30 million aquatic center Friday. An abandoned site on Joe B Hall Avenue in Shepherdsville hasn’t been much use to the city in recent years, the mayor said, so the city bought it, demolished what was on it, and have moved forward with their plans for it.
Marley — a little lady ready for her forever family
MURRAY, Ky. — This sweetheart at Murray Calloway County Animal Shelter is waiting for you!. Meet Marley, a 1-year-old cutie who was surrendered due to no fault of her own. She's only 18 lbs. and is house and puppy pad trained. Marley is good with other dogs, having lived...
Murray High football gets started
Murray High joined other football programs throughout Kentucky by beginning preseason drills earlier this week. Teams are not allowed to begin full-contact sessions until Aug. 1 so the Tigers improvised on Tuesday evening with this lineman exercise, featuring trash containers as the opposition. Here, from far left, Jesus Figueroa, Owen Howell, Devin Eskra, Ryan Walls and Meech Carman (yellow shorts) move through their assignments at the infield of the Murray High track. JOHN WRIGHT/ Ledger & Times.
Baptist Health breaks ground on facility designed to streamline healthcare for patients
Baptist Health, in partnership with Dallas-based Intuitive Health, has broken ground on its third dual emergency and urgent care facility. The 11,400-square-foot Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care Glenmary will be located on Bardstown Road in Louisville and is scheduled to open in the summer of 2025. The project follows the successful launch of the Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care Jeffersonville in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 2022, and the Baptist Health ER & Urgent Care Blankenbaker in Louisville in 2023.
Men from Clarkson & Hardinsburg, along with members of Owensboro law firm accused of falsifying documents while exploiting vulnerable adult
The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office announced on Friday that two men, one from Clarkson and the other from Hardinsburg, are among five suspects accused of knowingly exploiting a vulnerable adult. The investigation, conducted by the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control, resulted in an Ohio County...
Family of Miya Rudd plans a day of remembrance
DAVIESS COUNTY, Ky. (WEHT) — The family of a missing Ohio County baby is speaking out for the first time and announced plans for a day of remembrance. “I am mad at a lot of people, but I have God in my heart so I can forgive them. But nothing changes; we can’t bring her […]
Global Ties: Kentucky and Liberia’s shared legacy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) -Across the globe, Kentucky has connections to one of Africa’s countries. Over 200 years ago, Henry Clay helped repatriate freed slaves back to Africa and that’s when some of Kentucky’s ex-slaves settled and created their own territory, which is now known as Liberia. William...
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