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Blood donations needed after winter storm disrupts supply
The winter storm that hit Kentucky in early January hurt the state’s blood supply, the Kentucky Blood Center said Monday. The wintry conditions — snow, ice and freezing temperatures...
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All Kentucky school districts now have policies against corporal punishment
When Alex Young was in the seventh grade, he read an article about how Kentucky schools still had cases of corporal punishment. Young, now a junior studying political science...
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Republican lawmaker again files bill to add exceptions to Kentucky’s abortion ban
Louisville Republican Rep. Ken Fleming filed a bill Friday that would add exceptions to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban for cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal anomalies and ectopic pregnancies. ...
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Kroger settles opioid lawsuit, will pay Kentucky $110 million
Over the next nine years, Kentucky is set to receive $110 million from a settlement with Kroger that will go to addressing the opioid crisis, Attorney General Russell Coleman...
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‘This is personal to me’: Louisville Democrat will try again to add exceptions to abortion ban
FRANKFORT — Saying it’s the “right thing to do,” Sen. David Yates, a Louisville Democrat, is again asking the legislature to consider providing exceptions in Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban...
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Kentucky deaths still outnumber births though gap narrows. Here’s why.
While Kentucky had more deaths than births in 2023, according to preliminary data, deaths declined. This is thanks, in large part, to the overall decrease in COVID-19 deaths following...
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Whitney Westerfield, former state senator, going to work for community mental health center
Former state Sen. Whitney Westerfield, who did not seek reelection, has a new job. Westerfield, an attorney, will become director of legal and government affairs for LifeSkills, a nonprofit...
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Norovirus is on the rise. How to protect yourself.
There have been more cases of the highly infectious norovirus this season than totals in the past several seasons, but Kentuckians need not panic. Infectious disease expert Dr. Mark...
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KY lawmaker under ‘no delusion’ bill restoring abortion access will pass. She’s filing it anyway.
Lexington Democrat Rep. Lindsey Burke is under “no delusion” that Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature will hear, much less pass, a bill to reinstate abortion access. But, during the 2025 legislative...
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Kentucky mother wants to expand who can have cameras in residential facilities
Ann Jeannette Pierce is worried by the unexplained bruises and cuts that periodically pop up on her nonverbal adult daughter. So, the Owensboro woman is asking the Kentucky legislature...