Beth Musgrave

3 days ago | kentucky.com | Beth Musgrave |Bill Estep

Three Kentucky facilities that offer low-income young adults job training and other skills will shutter by the end of June. The US Department of Labor announced Thursday it was pausing operations at an estimated 100 Job Corps sites operated by private contractors by June 30. The department cited high costs, low performance and reports of sexual assault and other problems in the nationwide program. Three Job Corps sites on the chopping block are Carl D. Perkins Center in Prestonsburg, Earle C.

4 days ago | kentucky.com | Beth Musgrave

In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Officials with two Kentucky counties listed on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security website as “sanctuary” jurisdictions contested the designation and say they have always cooperated with federal law enforcement on immigration arrests.

5 days ago | kentucky.com | Beth Musgrave

In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. Offices that oversee mine safety inspections will not be closed, the U.S. Department of Labor announced last week. The Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE originally listed 34 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) officials on its website for closure, including seven offices in Kentucky.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Beth Musgrave

Sherry Ballard couldn’t get her daughter to respond to texts or phone calls in the early evening of July 3, 2015. Crystal Rogers, the Nelson County mother of five, was also not responding to texts and calls from her kids. On July 5, Ballard, shaken, confused and determined, headed to the Nelson County Sheriff’s Department to report Rogers missing. But before she made it to the sheriff’s office, she spotted Brooks Houck, Rogers live-in boyfriend and the father of her youngest child who was then 2.

2 weeks ago | kentucky.com | Beth Musgrave |Valarie Spears

The U.S. Department of Education has largely rejected a request by Kentucky education officials to continue funding projects in Kentucky school districts using coronavirus relief money. Federal officials approved two smaller project for Boone County Schools: a $26,000 grant for an interactive learning platform and $18,600 to fund one year of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, according to Kentucky Department of Education officials.