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Senator says the measure brings “massive repercussions,” complicated jurisdiction and legal questions
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April is Second Chance Jobs Month, which highlights the need for job opportunities for formerly incarcerated people and re-entry support services to help them gain and keep employment.
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Kentucky State Police announced on Monday that they have identified human remains found in Lake Barkley in 1999.
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NBA player Ja Morant testified in court Monday to justify his actions during a pickup game last year at his parents’ house that ended in the Memphis Grizzlies point guard punching an at-the-time 17 year old teen in the face.
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For years, lengthy delays in testing sexual assault kits left victims in limbo — unable to learn whether evidence that passes from nurses to police to labs and back has made it through the system or slipped through the cracks.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Tennessee to stop enforcing a statute that discriminates against those living with HIV.
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After years of steady declines, Tennessee’s prison population climbed by nearly eight percent last year, a bump in the rate of incarceration that surpassed all but three other states during a period of time that also saw steep drops in the most serious crimes.
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Kentucky is one of just four states where local and state law enforcement can’t get a warrant to wiretap a criminal suspect’s communications, leaving only federal officials with such powers.
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Trigg County Sheriff Aaron Acree pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four misdemeanors, including two counts of official misconduct and two counts of menacing.
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Crystal Roberts went missing in 2015 and signs asking for information on her whereabouts have been posted on the Bluegrass Parkway and elsewhere for years. Monday, the Kentucky Supreme Court denied a request by her alleged murderer for a new judge in the case.
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A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday afternoon after a jury deadlocked on civil rights charges against a former Louisville police officer who fired stray bullets in the deadly raid that left Breonna Taylor dead.
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The commissioner of Kentucky’s troubled Department of Juvenile Justice will resign at the end of the year. Vicki Reed helmed the agency amid a series of violent incidents including assaults, rape, riots and a brief escape.