State/National

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Jack Conway raised more than $900,000 in the first two weeks of October to increase his fundraising lead over Republican Matt Bevin by $5 million.

CALVERT CITY, Ky. – Governor Steve Beshear yesterday announced plans for two transportation projects that will enhance one of the great public assets of the Commonwealth – Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park.

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A deputy coroner says a man at a western Kentucky factory has died after being crushed by roll of steel.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former Patriot Coal workers have begun applying for jobs with Blackhawk Mining.

Trenton, KY (Todd County) – The Kentucky State Police investigated a single-vehicle, injury-collision that occurred on KY 848, approximately two miles east of Trenton, on Saturday, October 24, at 11:20 a.m.

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SOMERSET, Ky. — Crappie USA will return to Kentucky’s Lake Cumberland Oct. 30–31 with a tournament and a chance for local anglers to compete for cash, prizes and advance to the Cabela’s Crappie USA Classic in 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Friday that he and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) will file a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) next week that is designed to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing its anti-coal regulation on new coal-fired plants.

Whitfield: “Now we’ve got EPA’s cap and trade rules, a blueprint for economic disaster, right there in black and white in the Federal Register.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that his legislation to address the rise of prenatal opioid abuse and infants suffering from opioid withdrawal passed the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (KY-01) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s veto of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act agreement that authorizes funding for the U.S. Armed Forces next year.

WASHINGTON, DC – Building off its previous work examining the EPA’s new cap and trade rules, the Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (KY-01), on Thursday held a hearing examining the legal issues relating to the EPA’s carbon dioxide (CO2) regulations for new and existing power plants.

HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — A Knott County man is dead after a confrontation with two Kentucky troopers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky officials say they are hoping to set ambitious goals to improve undergraduate retention and graduation rates, and to close gaps in those rates for minority, first-generation and low-income students over the next five years.

PADUCAH, Ky. – U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., has announced the sentencing of a Christian County, Kentucky convicted felon, by Senior Judge Thomas Russell on Thursday, October 15, 2015 to 96 months in prison for the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.