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Andy Beshear Op-ed: Let’s Work Together to End Child Sexual Abuse in Kentucky: Child Sexual Abuse Training scheduled across the state: March-November

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is opposing a prosecution push to make him pay $28 million in restitution to a coal company.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Students in Jefferson County Public Schools were physically held down or confined to a room more than 4,400 times last school year — but the school district only correctly reported 174 of those instances to the state.

PADUCAH, Ky. – A Toledo, Ohio, convicted murderer was sentenced on Friday by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, in United States District Court, to a lifetime of incarceration, without the possibility of parole, for the 2005 murder of a woman at Fort Knox Military Base.

FRANKFORT—Off-duty and retired law enforcement officers could carry concealed firearms anywhere that on-duty law enforcement officers carry firearms under legislation that has passed the Kentucky House.

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — The fate of the last legislative chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats is in the hands of a few thousand Kentucky voters in four House districts throughout the state.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The state of Kentucky is asking residents to donate a portion of their tax returns to help feed the hungry.

FRANKFORT— A proposed constitutional amendment that could allow cities and counties to levy a local option sales and use tax for specific projects has cleared a House committee.

A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet plans a work zone lane and load width restriction along KY 189 in MUHLENBERG County starting THURSDAY, March 10, 2016.

AP: The latest on the a Kentucky caucus

(Cadiz, KY.) –A Trigg County man has been charged for crimes related to child sexual exploitation.

Senate Bill 106 would permit public schools to sponsor artistic or theatrical programs that advance students’ knowledge or society’s cultural and religious heritage and traditions.

MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — A Clay County grand jury has indicted a man accused of murdering five people, including an unborn child, after authorities say he caused a car crash while high on drugs in eastern Kentucky.

State Police say a juvenile, age three, was transported to Baptist Health Paducah with a non-life threatening injury.

FRANKFORT—A resolution that could pave the way to college for more Kentuckians who are orphaned or taken away from their parents as children has passed the Kentucky House.