Ryan Van Velzer
/
LPM
In the aftermath of a raid at a Louisiana racetrack, Kentucky's equine community is worried about what increased immigration enforcement could mean for the industry's workforce.
- News Briefs
- Jesse D. Jones, influential Murray State donor, dies
- 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
NPR Top Stories
NPR
The major parties' redistricting battle escalated this week, with lawmakers in the country's two most populous states each taking a notable step toward a new congressional map.
More Regional News
-
A small town in rural Tennessee will soon be the site of a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. -
Gov. Andy Beshear’s political action committee In This Together reported raising another $824,000 last week, including large contributions from real estate, horse racing and cryptocurrency industries. -
Ford will build an electric truck in Louisville, but the new assembly process requires fewer workersFord Motor Company plans to invest nearly $2 billion in the Louisville Assembly Plant to expand and build a new midsize electric truck. Its plans will require an expansion and retooling of the entire factory, but will mean fewer jobs. -
A rural town in western Kentucky will be home to the state's first medical cannabis dispensary. The Post Dispensary in Beaver Dam has received approval to open the state's first dispensary since medical marijuana became legal on Jan. 1. -
Apple says it will partner with a Kentucky manufacturer to produce all of the glass on its iPhones and other products in the Bluegrass State. -
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s yard.
More NPR Headlines
-
In 1974, Surinder Gupta needed help and dialed a stranger in the phone book with a familiar Indian name. The man who answered went on to play a surprising role in his life. -
Generations of spectators and competitors take over a small hamlet in Western N.Y. each summer to participate in a motorsport with roots in farming: the tractor pull. -
Many Mormon women are celebrating the new garments, which they've been requesting for years. Others say the church's all-male leadership should have listened to them sooner. -
Music shouldn't be treated like a game to master — it should be treated like something that affects and potentially changes you. -
Leaked audio recordings broadcast Friday reveal remarks by Israel's former chief of military intelligence about the price he believed Palestinians should pay for Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack. -
Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under the controversial national security law, which Beijing imposed.
