Most of the $48 million of spending in Kentucky’s GOP primary for Senate has been by super PACs supporting Nate Morris and Andy Barr, which are bankrolled by a few billionaires and dark money groups.
- News Briefs
- Murray State authorizes study to evaluate Racer Entertainment Village proposal
- Law enforcement fatally shoot Paducah man after KSP says he stabbed parole officer
- Murray State University women’s basketball headed to Chapel Hill for NCAA Tournament
- New license plate to help fund Kentucky natural disaster relief
- Lawsuit against Murray State dismissed after university, former provost reach out-of-court agreement
- SkyWest Airlines begins new service at Barkley Regional Airport
NPR Top Stories
The ornate Cotofenesti helmet, which was stolen in January 2025 while on loan to a Dutch museum, was recovered last month.
More Regional News
-
The bill would require reporting immigrants without legal status who apply for public benefits to the state’s Centralized Immigration Enforcement Bureau or face loss of funding; government employees could face criminal charges for not reporting
-
Democratic Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman will run for the governor’s office next year when Gov. Andy Beshear’s term ends.
-
The federal Summer EBT program has bipartisan support; the $7 million in funding included in the state budget covers administrative costs to the state
-
Paducah’s Market House Theatre welcomed back a familiar face as it hosted the world premiere of Michael Cochran’s “Heat Lightning” this week, the newest play from the former executive director of the nonprofit western Kentucky playhouse.
-
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’, housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.
-
The impeachment petition to remove Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goodwine remains open despite the legislative session ending, as the House referred it to an investigative committee.
More NPR Headlines
-
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups.
-
These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence.
-
Florida's attorney general is launching a criminal investigation into the alleged role of ChatGPT in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
-
The Florida Democrat faced a potential expulsion vote in the House as she prepares for a federal trial on allegations that she stole disaster funds and used some of the money to finance her campaign.
-
In Season 2 of Beef, Isaac plays Josh, a country club manager whose life is unravelling. He got into character by imagining how Victor Frankenstein would feel trapped inside Josh's "small life."
-
"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace.