Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer’s sister has resigned as assistant executive director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. [H-L] If you have any heart at all, this story will melt it. An elderly woman whose home was destroyed by the Oklahoma tornado found her pet dog among the rubble during a live TV interview. [...]

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An Owsley County man died Saturday and a second man was shot after the two allegedly got into an argument involving an all-terrain vehicle. [H-L] Your hospital may be hazardous to your health. An interactive investigation into patient harm. [ProPublica] With U.S. Sen. Rand Paul edging ever closer to a presidential run in 2016, the [...]

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Lawyers for former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer want federal prosecutors to provide all documents that could be used against Farmer and want all criminal records of any potential government witness. [Bluegrass Politics] A House of Representatives panel is investigating the circumstances surrounding the resignation from the Food and Drug Administration of its acting deputy commissioner [...]

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Law enforcement agencies across Western Kentucky are struggling with a declining number of officers and rising crime rates. Sheriffs in the region say having fewer officers available is leaving departments shorthanded for emergencies, causing scheduling headaches and delaying response times to calls. [H-L] Seven healthy horses in Baffert’s stable at Hollywood Park have died suddenly [...]

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Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah The Quitter Palin will attend a fundraiser Sunday for the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington. [H-L] Most Americans do not see the Boston Marathon bombing and its suspects as an immigration issue, according to a poll released on Wednesday that also found the U.S. public still relatively inattentive to the debate on [...]

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We’ve written dozens of times (like here, the first time) about Governor Steve Beshear’s faux investment experts on the Kentucky Retirement Systems board. Specifically, how he stands in blatant violation of the law and how the Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts and Legislative Research Commission turn a blind eye (Warning: PDF Link). All it [...]

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The former poster child of the “ex-gay movement” renounced his controversial past beliefs in an email interview with PQ Monthly last week. [HuffPo] The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state can be sued over changes made to Kentucky’s retirement system in 2008. [H-L] Kentucky is seeing rising unemployment at the county level with [...]

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A former Kentucky Department of Agriculture employee who took time off to appear on The Amazing Race television show in 2011 has pressed the state for compensatory time payments he claims he is owed. Richie’s Folks are just magical for pee alerts. Magical. [H-L] In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell [...]

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An inmate who was stabbed Sunday at a state prison in West Liberty has died, a Kentucky State Police official said Tuesday. [H-L] When Texas farmer Donald Adair bought the floundering West Fertilizer Co in 2004, his neighbors in the rolling countryside near West were grateful he had saved them from driving extra miles to [...]

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An inmate at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in West Liberty was stabbed by another inmate Sunday during prison recreation, officials said Monday. [H-L] Boston bombing suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev told investigators in writing Monday that neither he nor his older brother were in touch with any overseas terror groups, according to NBC’s Pete Williams. [HuffPo] A [...]

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