Liam Niemeyer
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Two high school teachers in Hopkins County Schools are facing charges — including alleged sexual abuse and distributing “obscene matter” to minors — after being arrested by local law enforcement this week.
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The western Kentucky town of Marion has been facing an ongoing water shortage for months and is now weighing whether or not to build an emergency water line that would allow more supply to flow from other utilities. But another small town about nine miles away from the Crittenden County seat is wanting to take advantage of the situation.
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Hundreds of thousands of Kentucky children in low-income households will be getting extra federal food assistance through the start of the school year, something that anti-hunger advocates say is crucial given higher rates of food insecurity seen in the state over the summer.
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With the immediate aftermath of destructive floods on one side of the state and the ongoing recovery from tornadoes on the other side, politicians and people throughout the Fancy Farm picnic emphasized the importance of Kentuckians coming together to help neighbors and strangers alike when disasters strike.
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Marion City Council members continue to weigh options for a temporary water supply to help relieve its ongoing water shortage – ranging from getting water from nearby utilities to using water in an abandoned mine within city limits.
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Kentucky awarded millions of dollars to a number of electricity and telephone cooperatives earlier this summer to build out broadband internet access in rural communities. Some of these rural cooperatives have already been building internet connections for years before receiving this funding, likening the initiative to when cooperatives constructed electricity lines more than 50 years ago.
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The small western Kentucky city of Marion has faced a critical water shortage for months, and now local officials are planning on testing water in a nearby abandoned mine as a potential short-term water supply.
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Some farmers in far western Kentucky are continuing to deal with a drought that could ruin some corn yields later in the year.
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Some life-long community members of Marion, Kentucky have relied on their faith to get through the water shortage crisis, but that hasn’t shaken the anxiety and frustration of some who question how the situation came to be and the fears of what may come next.
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Officials for a western Kentucky town in the midst of an ongoing critical water shortage are asking residents to use bottled water for cooking and drinking because the safety of the community’s tap water can’t be guaranteed.