Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is hoping to ride the crest of a "blue wave," as he seeks to help flip a congressional seat and win a majority of governorships for Democrats.
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Christa Pike says she is in constant pain since surviving a lethal injection in Tennessee last month. In her first public statement, issued Friday, she expressed gratitude for the love and support she has received. Pike says she went into the execution chamber prepared to die in peace but woke up confused in a hospital bed. She said she's been “deeply hurt by the incompetence.”
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As Murray State University leaders work on preparing a budget for the next fiscal year, the school’s board of regents on Friday signed off on the hirings of two people who will oversee finances and procurement procedures on an interim basis.
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A parade of Democrats rallied for U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker in Louisville on the first two days of early voting as he vies with Congressman Andy Barr to replace longtime Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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More than one-third of Tennessee’s 35,000 private school voucher recipients live in just 20 ZIP codes, most of them wealthy and majority white, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat Tennessee.
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