DEA administrator says Congress needs to pass laws to keep social media from serving as platforms to promote, sell fentanyl
by Kentucky Health News The U.S. needs laws to force social-media companies to keep their platforms from being used to promote and sell fentanyl, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said on NBC‘s “Meet The...
Student Loan Decision Will Impact Hundreds of Thousands of Kentuckians
by Nadia Ramiagan, Public News Service The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block President Biden’s one-time, $400 billion student debt relief plan will affect hundreds of thousands of people in the...
Fentanyl test strips now legal in KY: backers say they’ll save lives
WEKU | By John McGary A new Kentucky law that went into effect Thursday decriminalizes fentanyl test strips. The strips can detect the presence of the deadly opioid that state...
State’s first detailed report on domestic-violence cases has a wealth of data on how courts and law enforcement handle it
by Kentucky Health News “Kentucky has long had a problem with domestic violence,” the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. “A 2012 survey found that 45% of women and 35% of men” in the...
Man found asleep with AK-47 pistol, 2 kilos of meth in car at major Lexington intersection pleads guilty
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington man entered a guilty plea on Thursday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, following an incident in which...
Federal Judge Halts Kentucky’s Restrictive Transgender Health Care Law
In a decisive move that has drawn national attention, a federal judge in Kentucky temporarily suspended parts of the state’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, permitting...
Recovery Services, LLC Agrees to $300K Settlement Over False Claims
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Recovery Services, LLC, a Louisville-based recovery center, has agreed to a settlement of $300,000 over civil allegations of fraudulent Medicaid billing, according to an announcement from...
New Grassroots Campaign Emerges to Oppose Letcher County Prison Construction
Letcher County, Kentucky, has become the battlefield for a contentious debate over the proposed construction of a federal prison, a project that carries an estimated price tag of $505...
Online scammer who stole nearly $4 million from City of Lexington pleads guilty
LEXINGTON, KY – The Houston woman at the center of an intricate web of fraud that nearly cost the city of Lexington $4 million, entered a guilty plea on...
Devine Carama discusses ONE Lexington with legislative juvenile justice commission
FRANKFORT, KY — Devine Carama, the director of ONE Lexington, recently discussed how his organization utilizes governmental resources and community partnerships to tackle youth gun violence with legislators on...