Giselle Rhoden
/
LPM
Thursday was the opening day for the 2025 Kentucky State Fair, and Kentuckians from across the state arrived to join the fun.
- News Briefs
- Paducah police chief says sergeant died due to stress from responding to shooting
- Tennessee governor prepared to send National Guard to D.C. for police takeover
- Tennessee U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announces candidacy for governor
- Kentucky has four more cases of highly contagious measles
- Canadian plastics packaging company to open first U.S. facility in Madisonville
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces more layoffs amid federal funding cuts
NPR Top Stories
Graham Hughes
/
The Canadian Press/AP
Air Canada will resume flights Monday evening, claiming the union illegally directed flight attendants to defy a return-to-work order.
Andrew Harnik
/
Getty Images North America
More Regional News
-
In a massive audit released Wednesday, the Republican state auditor accused the Kentucky Department of Education of allowing millions in school funding needlessly lapse. -
The time has come for an infamous flower bloom — rare enough to draw crowds — inside a greenhouse at Austin Peay State University. -
After calling six witnesses over two days, the defense has rested its case in the Crystal Rogers murder trial. The jury will return on Monday to hear closing statements in the trial of Brooks Houck and co-defendant Joseph Lawson. -
Two of Kentucky’s GOP congressional delegation were among the few to jump party lines to vote against the Republican tax and spending bill in the Senate and House, drawing anger from the president. -
A company aiming to open the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over the weekend. -
Inmates from Graves County will now be housed at the Christian County Jail for the foreseeable future under an agreement announced last week.
More NPR Headlines
-
Scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting in a womb in real time. The implications of how it happens could lead to more and better treatments for infertility. -
A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen adaptations of John Grisham's legal novels. -
The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in April. -
Tension in the nation's capital escalated over the question of who controls the city's police department after Washington, D.C.'s Attorney General sued over the White House's bid for full control. -
Spike Lee's latest collaboration with Denzel Washington — their first in nearly 20 years — reimagines a 1963 story about a wealthy businessman. In this version, Washington plays a music executive and Jeffrey Wright plays his chauffeur. -
While just a fraction of Republicans in Congress are holding town halls during the August recess — in-person and virtual — the questions from voters, and answers from lawmakers, strike a similar tune.
