CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was released Wednesday from a Chicago facility a month after he was hospitalized for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection and following intensive physical therapy for Parkinson’s disease.
Graves County couple Brandon and Jonna Crews donated hundreds of dollars and thousands of pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House in Louisville, Kentucky.
In a statement, Mary Trump called her uncle desperate and said, “I think he is a loser, and he is going to throw anything against the wall he can."
Lawmakers have been told that Kentucky's state pension systems are expected to need nearly $4.6 billion from the next two-year state budget, mostly to cover pension debts.
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Louisville Metro police say one juvenile was killed and two others were wounded in a drive-by shooting at a school bus stop on Wednesday morning.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A 29-year-old eastern Kentucky teacher known as a role model for her students has died after battling COVID-19, the district’s superintendent said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Haitians deported from the U.S. on Tuesday assaulted the pilots on board one of the flights when it arrived in Port-au-Prince and injured three U.S. immigration officers, according to a source familiar with internal reports of the incident.
(CNN) -- Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, according to a set of three polls released over the past week, with key elements of Texas' restrictive new abortion law also garnering relatively little support in the polls.
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COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March, with experts saying the virus is preying largely on a distinct group: 71 million unvaccinated Americans.
President Joe Biden is set to announce that the U.S. is doubling, to 1 billion doses, its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world. Biden is also set to embrace a goal of vaccinating 70% of the global population within the next year.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO– Southeast Missouri State (SEMO) will be distributing $10.4 million directly to students starting on Wednesday.
FedEx is getting hurt by the tight job market. The package delivery company said Tuesday that its costs are up $450 million in the most recent quarter, as it paid higher wages as it got harder to find new workers and demand for shipping increased.
Mary Johnson, 40, also known as Mary Johnson Davis, was reported missing on December 9, 2020, according to the FBI's Most Wanted website.
The iPhone 13, 13 Mini, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max phones go on sale Friday, September 24th and if you want one, you should do a little legwork before the stores open. Yes, you may be able to find one. Yes, they may all be gone by the time you get to the store. Here's a little about what
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What were the big talking points? The major news headlines of the day: COVID-19, infrastructure and the turmoil in Afghanistan.
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The goal is to make the road safer for you and your family to drive on.
MURRAY, KY — A contractor will begin paving roads in two different locations in Murray this week, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says.
Voting to "rate the plates" continues through Sept. 27.
The measure includes $28.6 billion in disaster relief and $6.3 billion to support Afghanistan evacuees.
On "Sex and the City" Garson played Stanford Blatch, friend and confidant of protagonist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). He was slated to appear in the reboot of the series.
Industries you and your family rely on for a paycheck, higher education and infrastructure funding: Congressman James Comer, who represents Kentucky’s First District, covered it all during an address Tuesday to the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce’s D.C. fly-in group in the Capitol.
The Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities ended in August, but the money raised will be used for years to come.
The recognition is based on overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
Nationwide demand for the treatment has forced the federal government to change how local hospitals get the treatment.
The announcement follows a pledge by Burger King in 2019 to eliminate non-biodegradable plastic toys globally by the end of 2025.
While boosters aren't available for the general public, they may be available in the future.
Chamber delegation meets with DOE deputy secretary over Paducah site cleanup and reindustrialization
Job security and economic impact are two direct results of continued cleanup work at the Department of Energy Paducah site. They were also the focus of Tuesday’s talks on Capitol Hill as part of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual D.C. fly-in.
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Before Gabby Petito disappeared while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, her conversations with her mother appeared to reveal Petito had "more and more tension" with her travel partner, a police affidavit for a search warrant indicates.
As of Tuesday, the positivity rate for COVID-19 test results is 11.95%. Currently, only three counties — Carlisle, Livingston and Clinton — are out of the COVID-19 red zone.
Investigators are searching for Laundrie on the Venice side of the Carlton Reserve, a 25,000-acre nature reserve near the family's home in North Port, Florida. Agents were requested Monday afternoon, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson Adam Brown.
Rep. James Tipton said Tuesday he prefiled the measure for next year. He says it would secure state funding to cover the entire cost of full-day kindergarten as a permanent expenditure.
(CNN) -- Abortion-inducing drugs in Texas will now be harder to obtain after the state's Republican governor recently signed restrictive legislation into law, weeks after another strict abortion law went into effect in the state.
The Illinois Supreme Court announced on Wednesday an amendment which extends the temporary stay on residential evictions through Oct. 3, the same date that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's moratorium is set to expire.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An elementary school in eastern Kentucky suffered its third coronavirus-related death among its staff since the school year began, the district’s superintendent said Tuesday.
The Blue Ribbon recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.
(CNN) -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly since taking office, calling the next 10 years a "decisive decade for our world" that will determine the global community's future.
Congress has until Sept. 30 to fund the government or risk a shutdown.
Watch President Joe Biden address the U.N. General Assembly for the first time in his presidency.
(CNN) -- White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the White House is seeking more information on the "horrific" viral videos that appear to show US Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian refugees at the US border.
PADUCAH– The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plan to close one lane of Interstate 24 eastbound near the 7 mile marker in Paducah for a concrete pothole patching project.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday will consider whether Missouri can implement a sweeping law aimed at limiting abortions.
Plus, the company said, adding a booster dose to a single shot of the vaccine raised immunity even more, and should also protect people strongly against infection.
(CNN) -- Comedian and actor Chris Rock revealed Sunday that he has tested positive for COVID-19, and he is using the opportunity to urge others to get vaccinated against the virus.
FRANKFORT, KY — Gov. Andy Beshear is warning unvaccinated Kentuckians not to count on the availability of monoclonal antibody infusions because of a national shortage affecting Kentucky's supply of the treatments.
The full moon known as the harvest moon, as it traditionally gave farmers more time to harvest their summer-grown crops into the night, will make its appearance Monday night soon after sunset.
Superintendent Donald Shively says the plan will be used if there is a large spike of COVID-19 cases.
UNION CITY, TN — Union City, Tennessee, is asking people who live there to share their thoughts on improvements that can be made to the city's downtown district.
After years of planning and searching for support at a local, state and federal level, a new airport terminal is in our community's future.
(CNN) — A San Antonio doctor who wrote a Washington Post op-ed claiming that he had violated Texas' six-week abortion ban now faces at least two lawsuits brought against him under the ban, both brought by plaintiffs who say they oppose the new law.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson pardoned the couple on July 30. The Missouri official's filing asking to suspend their licenses says that while a pardon erases a person’s conviction, “the person’s guilt remains.”
The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court Monday to uphold Roe v. Wade — the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability, which can occur at around 24 weeks of pregnancy — and to invalidate the Mississippi law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks.
