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1 week ago | 
leoweekly.com | Liam Niemeyer |Kentucky Lantern
Beshear, who introduced speakers connected to Black history sites around the state, said the trail is a commitment to “preserving these important stories.” Related “It’s not easy researching. It’s not easy putting together information. It’s not easy to promote what you know is important,” Giles said.
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1 week ago | 
wcluradio.com | Liam Niemeyer |Kentucky Lantern
by Liam Niemeyer, Kentucky Lantern June 16, 2025LOUISVILLE — Gov. Andy Beshear joined state tourism officials, historians and the CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville Monday to unveil a new statewide tourism trail showcasing Kentucky’s Black history and heritage. The Kentucky African American Heritage Trail highlights 57 sites, ranging from Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah to the National Underground Railroad Museum in Maysville to the Lynch Colored School in Harlan County.
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2 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will award $5 million in grant money for research projects and “innovative approaches to developing and implementing effective novel therapeutic interventions” for opioid use disorder and treating substance use disorder. Applications for the $5 million will open July 1 and will close Dec. 20, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office announced Monday. Winners will be decided next March or April.
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2 weeks ago | 
rawstory.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
In his final address as president of the American Medical Association, Kentucky’s Dr. Bruce A. Scott called on the medical community to turn its “anger into action” to protect the medical safety net now under threat in Congress. Scott, an ear, nose and throat specialist from Louisville, closed out his term as president of the AMA by slamming insurance denials and Republican proposals in Congress that he said threaten the future of medicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. These two deaths in infants, whose mothers were also not vaccinated against pertussis, are the first whooping cough deaths in Kentucky since 2018, the department said. Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory illness that can be life threatening.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
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2 weeks ago | 
alternet.org | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. These two deaths in infants, whose mothers were also not vaccinated against pertussis, are the first whooping cough deaths in Kentucky since 2018, the department said. Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory illness that can be life threatening.
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3 weeks ago | 
paducahsun.com | Liam Niemeyer |Kentucky Lantern
A coalition representing universities, environmental conservation nonprofits and more has released what it says is a roadmap to protecting and conserving waterways in the Ohio River basin. The 96-page draft plan released Thursday details numerous challenges ranging from industrial and coal mining pollution to the proliferation of invasive species and extreme flooding driven by climate change.
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3 weeks ago | 
citybeat.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
A Kentucky mother says after she asked the state to help her manage her adopted daughter’s “severe” behavioral issues, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services sent letters to the child’s birth parents and others, asking them to take her in. Jennifer Nelson filed a lawsuit in Caldwell Circuit Court last week, saying the state violated her daughter’s privacy.
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3 weeks ago | 
citybeat.com | Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has voluntarily dropped a challenge to the state’s abortion restrictions. The Friday dismissal comes about six months after the chapter filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Louisville woman who, at the time, was pregnant and seeking an abortion. The woman, identified by the pseudonym Mary Poe, later traveled out of state for an abortion, which is illegal in Kentucky in most circumstances.
