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Kentucky’s attorney general says federal law doesn’t require taxpayers to fund gender re-assignment surgeries for transgender inmates in state custody. Republican AG Russell Coleman issued an opinion on Thursday, calling the idea “absurd.”

Of the 450 Kentucky voters surveyed Oct. 1-3, 49% said they would vote for Beshear if the election were held that day. Only 33% said they would vote for Cameron, with 13% still undecided.

In the "Safer Kentucky Act," Louisville Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds, and ban "street camping" and homeless encampments in public areas.

Kentucky is among 16 states whose governors received letters this week noting funding disparities between historically Black land-grant institutions and their predominantly white counterparts. The total disparity amounts to $12 billion.

A poll released on Monday suggests Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear remains the most popular Democratic governor in the country, despite leading a red state.The survey shows the incumbent with support from roughly half of the state’s Republicans, four months out from election day.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is set to announce his pick for Lieutenant Governor on Wednesday.The Republican nominee for Kentucky governor will hold a press conference at 9:30 a.m. ET in Frankfort, revealing who he's choosing as his second-in-command.

Pamela Stevenson spent nearly three decades as a litigator in the U.S. Air Force. But since her retirement, the Louisville native has practiced in Clarksville, Indiana, where she’s been licensed since 1984.

Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron stuck to his solidly conservative playbook Tuesday but steered away for the most part from former President Donald Trump's latest legal woes.

After winning this week’s Democratic primary, Gov. Andy Beshear has launched his first ad of the general election campaign.The first-term incumbent will also embark on a statewide bus tour this weekend.

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of overdose deaths in Kentucky. The state Office of Drug Control Policy says fentanyl was involved in over 70% of the 2,250 overdose deaths in Kentucky in 2021.