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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Thousands of Kentucky teachers demanded a state budget that helps schools as lawmakers debated whether to reject the Republican governor’s vetoes and restore increases in education spending. Teachers hoisted signs and repeated “we love our children” at a rally outside Kentucky’s Capitol, but the focus quickly shifted inside. Demonstrators chanted “we […]

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Charles W. Anderson was the first Black legislator in the state of Kentucky, and a proven champion for the state’s Black residents during his tenure as a lawmaker. In January 1936, Anderson was sworn into the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving several terms and making an almost immediate impact the moment he began his service. […]

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers must attend training to prevent sexual harassment one day after the House speaker temporarily ceded power while investigators probe a secret sexual harassment settlement signed by four Republicans. Jeff Hoover had announced he would resign as speaker two months ago, shortly after acknowledging he secretly settled a sexual harassment […]

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — For years, a Kentucky principal lived a secret life. Long a respected community leader, Stephen Kyle Goodlett regularly attended church and mentored children. But, prosecutors say, he also covertly searched the confiscated student cellphones of teenage girls for nude photos, saving them to thumb drives to be viewed, uploaded and traded […]

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Whitney Houston’s former associate Kevin Ammon penned a book titled Good Girl, Bad Girl in which he details a 1991 incident involving Nippy, her family and three racist white men in Lexington, Kentucky. It all went down when Houston, her brother Michael and friend Robyn went to the Radisson Plaza Hotel lounge to watch the […]

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Whitney Houston’s former associate Kevin Ammon penned a book titled” Good Girl, Bad Girl,” in which he details a 1991 incident involving Nippy, her family and three racist white men in Lexington, Kentucky. It all went down when Houston, her brother Michael and friend Robyn went to the Radisson Plaza Hotel lounge to watch the […]

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Scores of demonstrators gathered outside of Mitch McConnell's home to protest the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday.

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A Kentucky high school principal apologized for one of his teachers' homework assignments that repeatedly used the N-word. It was supposed to prepare the students for when they encountered the slur in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

A Kentucky mother vented on Twitter about a new school policy that banned natural hairstyles. It went viral, and the school changed its policy.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Avoiding possible banishment from the bench, a remorseful Kentucky judge was suspended Monday for racially charged comments aimed at a top prosecutor that stemmed from the judge’s frustration over lack of minority representation on a jury panel. Olu Stevens, a black circuit judge in Louisville, accepted a 90-day suspension without pay […]

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The woman's attorney told the court that her client was refused clothing, feminine hygiene products and a shower.

Kentucky judge demands to know why jail officials sent a female inmate to her courtroom without proper attire. The woman was wearing the shorts and T-shirt that she was arrested in days earlier.