Tag: Internationals

Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is inviting schools and teachers across the Commonwealth to bring the 2012 General Election into classrooms through the Kentucky Student Mock Election program. The deadline to register for the mock election, which is conducted in partnership with the National Student/Parent Mock Election, is October 31, 2012. Voting begins on October […]

Google, the world's largest internet search engine, put together seven hot-button political issues and showed which states where people search for those issues the most. As The Washington Post's The Fix blog notes: The biggest surprise for us? Kentucky is the state where searches for legalization of marijuana are highest. Yes, Kentucky. One possible explanation: There […]

The Northern Kentucky Health Department reports that there have been 101 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, in the region in 2012. Lasy year the Department confirmed only 49 cases. The average age of those afflicted in Northern Kentucky is eight, but ranges from three-weeks old to sixty-seven years old. "Pertussis is highly contagious with up […]

13,000 patients have been exposed to fungal meningitis following injections from the New England Compounding Center, including five in Kentucky who were treated in other states:   "Kentucky had five patients that were infected because they were treated out of state in a state that had received these steroid injections. And that was Tennessee," Mayfield […]

The Kentucky State Police joined forces with Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Indiana State Police on Sept. 27-29, in an effort to combat drug trafficking through a marijuana interdiction and eradication enforcement blitz. This successful enforcement effort netted 32 felony and 152 misdemeanor marijuana related drug arrests. The agencies also seized over 94,000 […]

Governor Steve Beshear has declared October as Cyber Security Awareness Month in Kentucky.  The proclamation encourages citizens to make sure they take necessary precautions while online and provides resources for them to obtain more information about cybercrimes. “We all understand the power and usefulness of the Internet, but we must remain aware of the potential […]

Judicial centers will be closed statewide and all court services will be unavailable Monday, Oct. 15, as the Kentucky Judicial Branch shuts down for the third of three furlough days in 2012.  This is the first time since Kentucky’s modern court system was formed in 1976 that the Judicial Branch must close judicial center doors to […]

   Preliminary statistics* indicate that six people died in six separate crashes on Kentucky's roadways from Monday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. One single fatality motor vehicle crash occurred in each of the following counties: Leslie, Monroe and Robertson. Two of the victims were not wearing seat belts. One of the crashes involved […]

ESPN issued this news release: ESPN will premiere a new sports series this fall focusing on the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team.  All-Access Kentucky debuts this month and will follow Coach John Calipari and his staff as they guide the new faces of the defending national champion Wildcats from Big Blue Madness to the start of […]

First Lady Jane Beshear today joined the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association (KDVA) and legislators to help promote October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Kentucky.   “Nearly one-third of all American women report being abused at some point in their lives.  Abuse affects more than just individuals — families and communities suffer, too,” said Mrs. […]