LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer, of Bowling Green, has defeated Democrat James Rhodes to win another term in his western Kentucky district. Comer, who was recently selected to serve as the top-ranking Republican on a key investigative committee in Congress, will begin his third term in January in the state’s 1st District. He is a former…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump has won Republican-leaning Kentucky. The Bluegrass State delivered its eight electoral votes for the Republican incumbent as Trump defeated Democrat Joe Biden in Kentucky. The outcome was never in doubt, reflected by the absence of presidential campaigning in the state as both candidates focused on swing states. Republicans have long dominated federal elections…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky has been awarded a $100,000 grant for a program focused on precast concrete education by the PCI Foundation. Joe Brewer, director of technology and facilities at the University of Kentucky, says the grant is “transformative,” and an opportunity to help students learn how precast concrete can be used to “lessen the gap…
SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) — Officials say more than $5 million in federal grants has been awarded to six projects in southern and eastern Kentucky. A joint statement on Monday from U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers says the funding was awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization. Agencies plan to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’s at the top of his game in his closing pitch for a seventh term. Democratic opponent Amy McGrath says as the rivals campaigned Monday that the country can do much better with McConnell swept out of office. After weeks of mail-in and early in-person voting in response to…
(AP) — A vast swath of West Texas has been without an abortion clinic for more than six years. Planned Parenthood plans to change that with a health center it opened recently in Lubbock. It’s an example of how abortion-rights groups are striving to preserve nationwide access to the procedure even as the Supreme Court shifts in a more conservative…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced in an online dating scheme where a Kentucky woman was scammed out of more than $750,000. Kahad Wuupini of Auburn, Washington, was sentenced Friday to six years and seven months in federal prison. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports Thomas Inkoom of Newark, New Jersey was sentenced to one year and seven months….
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers preparing for an action-packed session next year will have some basic operational challenges to overcome because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kentucky is now being hit by its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. The legislature convenes in early January. The outbreak raises a more practical question at the Capitol — how the General Assembly…
CHICAGO (AP) — Family members of three people who were victims of police actions gathered in a Chicago park for a get out the vote rally. About 100 people, including relatives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, gathered Thursday in Grant Park to promote voting and to push for social change. Breonna Taylor was shot to death by Louisville…
DANVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Four years after Donald Trump donned a miner’s helmet at a West Virginia campaign rally and vowed to save a dying industry, coal has not come roaring back. The fuel has been outmatched against cheaper, cleaner natural gas and renewable energy. But many West Virginians applaud the president’s efforts and remain loyal as he seeks a…
