MOREHEAD — In a warehouse in Rowan County sits an experiment that Tom Manning-Beavin and his nonprofit have been brainstorming for years — a wooden rectangular frame he calls one of their “boxes.”  When the Frontier Housing CEO explains the concept, he hearkens back to when he played with Lego bricks growing up. Just like […]

NEW ORLEANS – The lean, bespectacled veteran from Kentucky sat silently in the early evening of Aug. 14 on a stage in the cavernous U.S. Freedom Pavilion in the National WWII Museum. With vintage war planes hanging overhead from the ceiling, Sanford L. Jones Sr. of Richmond peered out at an audience of about 300, […]

The Franklin County courts are moving operations back into the downtown Frankfort courthouse following damage from widespread April floods.  The courts will return to the courthouse on St. Clair Street starting Tuesday, Sept. 2, the Administrative Office of the Courts said. Flooding inundated communities across Kentucky in April, including the capital city of Frankfort.   It […]

At least one Kentucky school district has rejected a proposal from Ohio-based LifeWise Academy which has plans in the works across Kentucky to offer Bible lessons to public school students. The board of Warren County Public Schools voted 3-2 against the nonprofit organization’s proposal, the Bowling Green Daily News reports. If the board had approved, […]

PEEWEE VALLEY— Students at an elementary school in Oldham County could be among the first to leave school for Bible lessons under a provision enacted by the Kentucky legislature earlier this year.  The proposal has generated controversy among parents and community members as a citizens group calls for the board of education to reject the […]