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New technology center serving eastern Kentucky counties

July 26, 2021 GMT

IRVINE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials have celebrated the opening of a $14.7 million technology center serving Estill, Powell and surrounding counties in eastern Kentucky.

The center will serve high school and technical college students and provide training for displaced workers seeking new career paths.

Kentucky Senate GOP leader files no-knock warrant bill

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURNFebruary 23, 2021 GMT

LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — One of Kentucky's top GOP lawmakers has filed legislation to ban some no-knock warrants nearly a year after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot in her home multiple times by police during a botched drug raid in Louisville.

Beshear reaches out to lawmakers on executive powers bills

By BRUCE SCHREINERJanuary 27, 2021 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Faced with a weakening of his executive powers, Kentucky's Democratic governor has offered an outline for potential compromises in a letter to top Republican legislative leaders...

Kentucky lawmakers adjust schedule amid coronavirus outbreak

By BRUCE SCHREINERMarch 20, 2020 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's legislature will take a weeklong break in response to the new coronavirus outbreak as top lawmakers released an abbreviated schedule to finish work on the budget and other priorities.

Kentucky House votes to legalize medical marijuana

By BRUCE SCHREINERFebruary 21, 2020 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After years of setbacks, medical marijuana advocates cleared a historic hurdle Thursday when the Kentucky House voted to legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes...

Lawmakers want former Ky. Gov. Bevin’s pardons investigated

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVANDecember 13, 2019 GMT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Outrage over a spree of pardons by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin spread to the state capitol Friday as lawmakers called on federal and state prosecutors to investigate the orders, including one for a convicted killer whose family raised campaign money for the governor...