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The Lowertown Arts & Music Festival comes to Paducah's historic Lowertown Arts District on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11. Saturday's lineup will be headlined by West Kentucky native Kelsey Waldon, who got her start playing local hall shows and has now played some of the biggest halls in country music, including the Grand Ole Opry. Morning Edition host Daniel Hurt speaks to Waldon ahead of her performance.
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More than two dozen paintings by the late Helen LaFrance – a celebrated Black artist from far western Kentucky known for her “memory paintings” of rural life – are up for auction and a local group is hoping to buy them.
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Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
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Spring is heating up across Kentucky, and low-income families can get help paying their air-conditioning bill through a seasonal program.
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National Education Association reports state’s per student spending ranks 33rd in 2022-23
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Environmental groups have filed suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over its approval of a pipeline that will wind through mostly poor and Black Middle Tennessee communities to supply methane gas to a new Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Clarksville.
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A year after a spate of horse deaths at Churchill Downs, numerous investigations concluded with many questions unanswered. With a few new safety measures and upgraded technology, Churchill Downs said it's addressing safety concerns ahead of this year’s Kentucky Derby.
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The House voted overwhelmingly to set aside a motion by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to remove Johnson as speaker
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Republicans tried for the kind of headline moments they've scored in similar hearings with elite college presidents. But the testimony from K-12 public school leaders offered few surprises.
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President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.
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President-elect Prabowo Subianto was once banned by the U.S. for rights violations. But the U.S. earlier gave him military training. How will both countries deal with each other once he takes office?
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The White House wants a twenty-fold increase in geothermal energy production to fight climate change and it's counting on the oil and gas industry for help.
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The Baltimore County Police Department confirmed the identity of the sixth victim, 37-year-old José Mynor López, after salvage teams located his body Tuesday.