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As teachers leave Kentucky classrooms at an alarming rate, the GOP-led Legislature is hoping to entice more people into the profession with loan forgiveness and student stipends.
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FRANKFORT — In a year when the American Cancer Society asked the Kentucky legislature to increase spending on tobacco prevention, lawmakers cut it and passed an anti-vaping bill that some say could increase cigarette use in the state. -
The GOP-controlled Kentucky legislature overrode nearly all of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes on Friday, the second to last day of the session. -
Former basketball star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored a victory Thursday as a leading advocate for a new Kentucky law that will expand insurance coverage for people seeking treatment for stuttering. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced last Tuesday that it intends to build a methane gas plant in Kingston, requiring a 122-mile pipeline in six counties between Nashville and Knoxville. -
Hadley’s law would add exceptions for rape, incest and nonviable pregnancies, but has yet to be assigned a committee in the Senate. Now its sponsor is making a final desperate push to move the bill in the last two days of the session. -
It could soon be a crime to help Tennessee teenagers get an abortion. A bill passed out of the Senate and has one vote left in the House. Like many abortion policies, vague wording leaves a lot open to interpretation.
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On Tuesday House impeachment managers will deliver the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate. -
Engineers left these drawings as a way to sign their work. Many are puns that made them chuckle to themselves. Now social media has rediscovered them and hobbyists try to keep that history alive. -
Every year, the Library of Congress names 25 "audio treasures" to be preserved permanently. This year's selections range from ABBA and Green Day to World War I-era jazz pioneer James Reese Europe. -
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Crypto investors are getting excited about an upcoming quadrennial event called the halving that will effectively reduce the supply of new bitcoin in half. Here's what it all means. -
The case tests the statute used to prosecute hundreds of defendants charged with invading the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots for president in 2020.
