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Kentucky residents and visitors 18 and older can now legally bet on sports using websites and mobile apps. Gov. Andy Beshear said last week more than 60,000 accounts were preregistered with sportsbooks.

Hip Hop Herc camp is a week-long experience that puts student raps on stage. At the end-of-the-week play, students perform original rhymes telling the story of Hercules, the hero of Greek mythology.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday they arrested Brooks Houck in connection with the 2015 disappearance of Crystal Rogers from Bardstown, Ky.

Kentucky’s clean energy workforce was the second fastest-growing in the country last year behind Tennessee, according to a new report.

Amid ongoing delays and crowding, Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Pollio presented the school board with possible solutions to the transportation crisis. But those changes likely won’t be in place until next fall.

In the “Safer Kentucky Act,” Louisville Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds and ban on “street camping” and homeless encampments in public areas.

Some Kentuckians could lose essential federal assistance in the case of a government shutdown. The Biden administration says the WIC program — formally known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — needs additional, emergency funding to keep serving families.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers agree: Medicare and Medicaid are failing 12 million of the country's most vulnerable patients.

In June, the court ruled that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act.

The Senate voted 77 to 19 to start the process for considering a stop-gap spending bill with funding for Ukraine and disaster relief. Even if the Senate is able to pass it, House action is unclear.

An entire city in Jefferson County is slated to disappear, thanks to a relatively new Kentucky law. The municipality of Poplar Hills went defunct years ago and now the state is trying to get rid of it and other so-called “ghost cities.”

Southern Indiana entities have through Wednesday to submit project proposals for the state’s second round of Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative (READI) funding.