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An education co-op representing 23 central Kentucky school districts has won $40 million in race to the Top grant funding.The Kentucky Department of Education won $17 million in funding last year, but this is the first time the U.S. Department of Education has made Race to the Top grants available to school districts.The Green River Regional Educational Cooperative will divide the four-year grant funding based on student populations. It will be applied to implementing college and career initiatives and to personalize students’ education.The 23 districts represent over 40 percent of the total number of districts that won awards. In all, 16 applicants will share nearly $400 million.The Green River Regional Educational Cooperative application includes Adair County Schools, Campbellsville Independent Schools, Carroll County Schools, Caverna Independent Schools, Cloverport Independent Schools, Daviess County Schools, Green County Schools, Hart County Schools, Henry County Schools, Logan County Schools, Metcalfe County Schools, Monroe County Schools, Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative, Owen County Schools, Owensboro Independent Schools, Russell County Schools, Shelby County Schools, Simpson County Schools, Spencer County Schools, Taylor County Schools, Trimble County Schools, Union County Schools, West Point Independent Schools)

Republic Bank and Dr. Mark Lynn and Associates agreed to combine their top bids of $800,000 each for the 16 pound ham, produced by Broadbent's B and B Foods in western Kentucky.

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The controversy surrounding the alleged use of a racial slur by the new legislative aide to Louisville Metro Councilman Dan Johnson boiled over into a...

Jefferson County Judge-Executive Bryan Matthews, a newly hired Louisville Metro Council aide, was fired from a previous job for allegedly using racial...

The grand champion country ham at the Kentucky State Fair fetched a six-figure price at a charity auction Thursday morning. The grand champion ham,…

The local Democratic and Republican parties will soon nominate candidates to run for the 6th District Metro Council seat previously held by the late George Unseld. The seat is now held by Deonte Hollowell, an independent who was appointed by the council after Unseld's death.

The body had ten candidates to choose from, and voted 33 times without any one person receiving the minimum 13 votes to fill the 6th District seat. Most of the votes were torn between Ken Herndon, who narrowly lost a primary race against Unseld in 2008 and Neeka Parks Thompson, an attorney who used to work in state government.

Horoscope: The sun is back in town. This one will work perfectly for you today.A couple months back we debuted the new tune from Neon Indian called…

Modest Mouse are keeping good on their promise of releasing a single on 45 per month leading up to their EP No One's First And Your Next thats due out in…

Its been three years since we last heard from Zero 7, a duo catapulted tomid-mainstream attention after there tune "In The Waiting Line" scored big from…

A few weeks ago we debuted a new Regina Spektor track called Laughing With, that while a good song, underwelmed the online masses who had waited for a new…