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COVINGTON, Ky. – A Wellington, Ky., man, Jarod Nicely, 39, was sentenced on Thursday to 276 months by Chief U.S. District Judge David Bunning for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.  On February 24, 2025, law enforcement stopped a vehicle…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Erlanger-based manufacturing companies, Post Glover Lifelink, Inc. and Post Glover Resistors, Inc., agreed to pay $2,500,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits the submission of false or fraudulent claims. Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to provide emergency financial assistance to small…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former Federal Medical Center Lexington Correctional officer, Ryan Carnahan, 32, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell for deprivation of rights resulting in bodily injury and making a false report. According to his plea agreement, on June 28, 2025, Carnahan was on-duty at FMC Lexington when he decided to…

This is Off-Beat: a slow read of the public-record substrate underneath a story Lexington is telling itself this week. The substrate, on inspection, isn’t in Lexington at all. It’s thirty miles down the rail line. At three-thirty on the morning of Sunday, September 24, 1882, the Sells Brothers Circus train ran past its brakes…

By McKenna Horsley, Kentucky Lantern · May 18, 2026 HEBRON, KENTUCKY – MAY 18: Ed Gallrein, Republican congressional candidate for Kentucky, greets U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on stage during an America First Workers Special Event on May 18, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky. This campaign event is being held one day before Kentucky’s…

By Jonathan Shorman, Kentucky Lantern · May 18, 2026 East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, voters stand in line at an early voting location in 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended Louisiana’s May 16, 2026, party primary elections for six U.S. House districts — after early voting had begun — following the U.S. Supreme…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stepped into a contentious Kentucky congressional race Monday, using his platform to attack one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal Republican critics in Congress, according to reporting from WUKY 91.3 FM. The move marks an unusual foray into domestic politics for the nation’s top defense official, who…

Kentucky Health News reported that Kentucky hospitals’ performance in the Leapfrog Group’s latest patient safety ratings remained relatively flat despite fewer hospitals receiving top marks. The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2026 Hospital Safety Grade, released in May, showed that Kentucky ranked 22nd among states in the percentage of hospitals earning “A” grades. The Leapfrog Group…

The University of Kentucky Graduate School recognized two exceptional faculty members with its highest honors during the 2026 Faculty Awards Ceremony on April 30. Guoqiang Yu, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, received the Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize, while Rachel Shane, Ph.D., department chair and professor of arts administration, received the…