A bill to legalize selected sports gambling in Kentucky is now before the Kentucky House.  The sports wagering bill easily emerged from committee Wednesday.

The Kentucky Senate has voted, primarily along political party lines, to strip the Secretary of State of any authority with the State Board of Elections.  A three-part series by the Lexington Herald-Leader and ProPublica reported accusations that Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and her staff had improperly accessed voter registration rolls.

A bill to expand the current highway messaging program to include missing individuals with certain disabilities is moving in Kentucky’s legislature.

The House Transportation Committee approved the measure sponsored by Richmond Representative Deanna Frazier Tuesday.

Richmond resident Fred Warner, who suffered from dementia, went missing in mid-December.  His body was found in a Madison County creek about a month later.  His son Randy Warner says distributing flyers doesn’t carry the same impact as messages along interstates.

When battery manufacturer EnerBlu announced it would suspend plans for a new factory in Pikeville, Kentucky, the company used an intriguing phrase. “Unexpected geopolitical factors,” the company said, had soured the deal.  

  According to a former executive at the company, those factors tied the rural eastern Kentucky development project to one of the world’s largest companies, the Saudi Arabian royal family, and the international uproar resulting from the murder of a prominent journalist.

Since it announced in 2017 its plan to build a $372 million

Kentucky high school students offered suggestions to improve higher education last week in Frankfort.  Members of the Prichard Committee’s Student Voice group testified before a House Budget Review Committee.

The $14.2 million going to breeders as part of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders’ Incentive Fund represents a ten year high.  The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission made the announcement Monday. 

Sue Meeks has worked with children for years as a registered nurse.

Meeks manages the family navigator program at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio.

Several years ago, she started noticing three and four-year-olds coming into the program with certain distinctive behaviors.