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Beshear signs executive orders making Juneteenth state holiday, establishing CROWN Act to protect Black hairstyles from discrimination

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Pipe dream or possibility? Beshear involved in presidential ticket talks

Amidst the post-debate panic, a handful of names have emerged as potential replacements for presumptive Democratic nominee, President ... Read more

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Civic nonprofit sues state over voter removal policies

Some Kentucky voters might show up to the polls and find out that they can’t vote, through no ... Read more

Sarah Young, a Second Chance employee at Kentucky Dam Village Park, speaks at a Team Kentucky press conference in Frankfort earlier this year. (Anita Hatchett)

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Kentucky employers give second chances

When Barbara Aker’s nephew was 10 or 11, he broke his arm. Doctors prescribed painkillers, which set him ... Read more

Dr. Roger Thomas, one of the owners of Thomas and England Veterinary Services in Smiths Grove, talks with Jason Smith of WPH Farms in Allen County about a calf’s healing from pink eye on Friday afternoon, June 21, 2024. Thomas said he travels far and wide to accommodate the high demand for large animal care as the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Loan Repayment Program, a new vet student loan repayment program approved by the state legislature this year that offers up to $87,500 in loan repayments over five years to vets who agree to practice on livestock in underserved rural areas or other shortage areas, aims to make a dent in a decades-long rural large animal vet shortage. (Grace Ramey McDowell, Bowling Green Daily News)

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‘All that can be done:’ State rural vet loan program to slow existential crisis

One day in mid-June, Dr. Timothy Gardner traveled from his Scottsville veterinary practice to Union County to Webster ... Read more

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear speaks about the status of the construction of the Blue Oval SV Battery Plant during an interview at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, June 6, 2024.

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Six months of Beshear (again): What’s he done?

Nearly every time he speaks, Gov. Andy Beshear shares that Kentucky is on its “biggest, best economic development ... Read more

A calf peers out of a pen after being castrated by Dr. Roger Thomas, one of the owners of Thomas and England Veterinary Services in Smiths Grove, at WPH Farms in Allen County on Friday afternoon, June 21, 2024. Thomas said he travels far and wide to accommodate the high demand for large animal care as the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Loan Repayment Program, a new vet student loan repayment program approved by the state legislature this year that offers up to $87,500 in loan repayments over five years to vets who agree to practice on livestock in underserved rural areas or other shortage areas, aims to make a dent in a decades-long rural large animal vet shortage. (Grace Ramey McDowell/grace.ramey@bgdailynews.com)

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‘All that can be done:’ State rural vet loan program to slow existential crisis

One day in mid-June, Dr. Timothy Gardner traveled from his Scottsville veterinary practice to Union County to Webster ... Read more

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Two years post Roe, smaller abortion battles wage

If the Supreme Court justices thought overturning Roe v. Wade would spell the end of the abortion question, they’d ... Read more

Sarah Young, a second chance employee at Kentucky Dam Village Park, speaks at a Team Kentucky presser in Frankfort.

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Kentucky employers give second chances

When Barbara Aker’s nephew was 10 or 11, he broke his arm. A painkiller prescription set him off ... Read more

The University of Kentucky campus on Friday, June 14, after the UK Board of Trustees voted to eliminate its university senate and overhaul shared governance.

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‘Obsessed:’ UK Board votes to eliminate university senate, overhaul shared governance

LEXINGTON — Yes, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto is obsessed. He said so Friday morning before the ... Read more

Elizabeth Newbould's daughter poses with a Dolly Parton Imagination Library book, the Little Engine Who Could.

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‘Giant domino effect:’ Dolly Parton Imagination Library preps KY kids for Kindergarten

Dolly Parton wants Kentucky kids to be ready for Kindergarten. As of June, every preschooler in the Commonwealth ... Read more