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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky landed at the bottom of the heap in a competition last year, but organizers are pushing for a better showing in this year’s SEC Game Winning Food drive.

Governor Steve Beshear has directed that flags at state office buildings be lowered to half-staff Wednesday in honor of a Richmond police officer killed in the line of duty.

1st District Congressman Ed Whitfield has joined two other U.S. House of Representatives in introducing a resolution to designate November as “National Diabetes Awareness Month.” Whitfield, Co-Chair of the House Diabetes Caucus, said in a release Kentucky continues to rank in the top 10 every year in the number of new diabetes cases, which is

LEXINGTON — A federal grand jury has returned a 100-count indictment charging five men, who owned a clinical laboratory, with billing health care third-party payors for urine drug tests that were medically unnecessary and not eligible for reimbursement.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. announced the recent charge by Information of an Allen County, Kentucky woman with three counts of wire fraud for embezzling more than $270,000 from her former employer, the Scottsville Baptist Church.

Company creating 200 jobs with more than $13.7 million investment

FRANKFORT, Ky. – A unique Kentucky State Park tradition – Eagle Watch Weekends – will be offered once again in January and February 2016.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 6, 2015) – Governor Steve Beshear has made the following appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Mac Brown is the next chairman of the Republican Party of Kentucky.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — The military says about 500 soldiers from the 101st Airborne headquarters at Fort Campbell are deploying to the Middle East to support military actions against the Islamic State group.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Former baseball great Andre Dawson will receive a “Living Legend” award at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Information Center at the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources fields approximately 100,000 phone calls annually, and the call volume peaks from late October into early November as hunters inquire about rules and regulations for the statewide modern gun deer season.

Central City, KY (Muhlenberg County) – The Kentucky State Police has charged a Central City man with Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration after receiving information that he was non-compliant.

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A teacher in Bullitt County has been acquitted of assaulting a 6-year-old student who was seen on surveillance video being dragged by the arm.

Honda is recalling over 145,000 motorcycles in the U.S. to fix dragging rear brakes that can cause a fire or crash.