Aprile Rickert

The Floyd County Library has drawn criticism and support after staff recently read a book featuring a same-sex couple to 4- to 6-year-olds during a children’s story time.

Southern Indiana lawmakers outlined their legislative goals ahead of the start of the legislative session Monday. This year’s challenge includes creating the state’s biennial budget amid the highest inflation in decades.

A Kentucky justice reform coalition has outlined goals for the upcoming legislative session, including improved treatment for substance use disorder and increased access to charge expungement.

A big winter storm is expected to hit the eastern and central parts of the country — including Kentucky — on Thursday. Temperatures will drop below freezing, with high winds, snow and rain forecasted through Christmas.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office has identified the construction worker killed after a trench collapse earlier this week in Clarksville as 22-year-old Emmanuel Martinez Moran.

Amendment 2 would have added this language to the state’s foundational document: “To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”

The Associated Press called the race for “No” voters at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. With 86% of votes counted, those opposing the amendment led supporters by more than 67,000 votes.

Amendment 2 would have added language to the state constitution rejecting a right to abortion, effectively leaving the question to Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature.

This week, data from the CDC show all but 17 Kentucky counties in the green, or the lowest level of spread. Only one — Letcher County in eastern Kentucky — was in the red, or highest level.

People and organizations can now apply for funding from Kentucky’s portion of a multi-state settlement with four drug companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis.