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A new report suggests Kentucky isn’t making the grade when it comes to preparing children for kindergarten. The National Institute for Early Education Research found only one-quarter of the state's four-year-olds attended preschool during the 2024-25 school year.
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Before adjourning the 2026 session last week, the General Assembly approved funding to expand Kentucky's network of regional driver’s licensing offices. -
The trial will determine the 28 athletes who will represent the United States in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. -
Critics of a proposed data center in Franklin have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn arecent vote by the local planning and zoning commission, marking the second lawsuit over the controversial project. -
Kentuckians charged with low-level crimes often brought on by substance abuse or mental illness can avoid incarceration by participating in specialty courts. But the next two-year state budget being crafted in the General Assembly threatens to eliminate that option. -
The first Kentuckian to die in the conflict with Iran will return home this weekend to Hardin County. The body of Staff Sgt. Benjamin Pennington will arrive at Fort Knox on Friday.
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Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Arab oil producer has long expressed frustration with the quotas it has to follow as part of OPEC, the cartel of major state-owned oil producers. -
Heather Diehl/Getty ImagesCole Allen, the man who tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Dinner, is being charged with trying to assassinate President Trump. And, King Charles III is set to address Congress today. -
Vahid Salemi/APTwo months after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran started the war, peace talks are on hold, with control of the Strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran's nuclear program as the two main points of contention. -
Schalk Van Zuydam/AP15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties. -
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