Derek Operle
WKMS News Director-
A documentary about a Kentucky miner's strike endures 50 years later. Harlan County USA's message still resonates today.
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Character actor Harry Dean Stanton would be 100 years old this week and fans in his home state of Kentucky still celebrate him each year with a festival.
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The Kentucky Film Office recently launched its new website, creating an information resource for companies hoping to bring productions to the commonwealth. -
Bowling Green and Paducah are two of the sites where protesters gathered to denounce the killing of a Minnesota woman who was shot to death by a ICE agent. -
A new book examines the racist background of the last public hanging in the U.S. when tens of thousands of people came to watch in a small Kentucky town.
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A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America. -
A California-based firm plans to build the first privately funded uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky amid efforts to bolster the country's domestic uranium enrichment.
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A California-based firm plans to build the first privately funded uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky amid efforts to bolster the country's domestic uranium enrichment.
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Around two dozen protestors with the grassroots group Four Rivers Indivisible spoke out against the proposal in western Kentucky on Tuesday, rallying outside of Republican Congressman James Comer’s office in downtown Paducah. -
Hopkins County Jailer Mike Lewis announced the change to the local fiscal court earlier this week, noting the facility was previously certified as a short-term holding facility that could house ICE detainees for up to 72 hours.
