Kentucky Today

19 hours ago | kentuckytoday.com | Dawn Reed

Kelly* just got her license and was so excited. I asked who had been teaching her to drive. Both of her parents, she replied. Then I asked which was the better driver, her mother or her father. (It’s not a terrible question. The truth’s the truth. And, of course, I wasn’t going to tell them.)Kelly said her mom is a terrible driver and her dad drives really fast. She said they correct her all the time when she is driving but she is doing exactly what she sees them do. My eyes got big as she spoke.

4 days ago | kentuckytoday.com | Mark Maynard

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (KT) – The first time Wayne Lowe shared his profession of faith in front of the entire church was at a funeral. Lowe, who was 55 at the time, had not been saved long but the man whose funeral where he was speaking was instrumental in taking him from death to life – a fitting picture during this Easter season. Talmer Meade never gave up on Lowe, witnessing to him for 5 ½ years. He knew his friend needed Jesus and told him so in no uncertain terms.

5 days ago | kentuckytoday.com | Mark Maynard

MAYFIELD, Ky. (KT) – Wes Fowler says the EF-4 tornado that swept through west Kentucky 3½ years ago, heavily damaging the church where he was pastor, became a defining moment in his life. Fowler was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Mayfield and endured the tornado’s horror while huddled in the basement of the church that was wrecked by the wind and rain to the point of being unusable. It has left his family – wife Tara and three children – with some PTSD.

6 days ago | kentuckytoday.com | Tom Latek

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – The Arthritis Knee Pain Centers (AKPC) and Dr. John Rush, its owner and Chief Executive Officer, face False Claims Act allegations related to false claims for knee injection procedures, it was announced on Friday by U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky.

6 days ago | kentuckytoday.com | Tom Latek

LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) – Kentucky will be the epicenter for the emergence of Brood 14 of 17-year periodical cicadas this spring, which have been designated the “Bourbon Brood” by University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment entomologists. Periodical cicadas have appeared in western Kentucky counties over the past few years, but the largest emergence area for 2025 will occur across most of central and eastern Kentucky.