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Jon Cherry/Associated PressApple is putting its trust in a Kentucky plant that will become the exclusive producer of cover glass for every iPhone and Apple Watch sold. Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Friday it plans to triple production capacity at its plant in Harrodsburg and increase the workforce by 50%.
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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. -
The Trump administration has cut staff by more than 24% at the National Park Service since January. Republicans in Congress are now proposing another round of cuts as part of a budget bill.
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"This is everywhere. Every community, every town, every state," one of the suspect's neighbors said. "It's going to be everybody's neighbor, everybody's classmate. It's not at all unusual anymore." -
Fed Gov. Lisa Cook referred to a condo she bought in 2021 as a "vacation home" in a loan estimate, which could undermine claims by the Trump administration that she committed mortgage fraud. -
Trump tells NATO members they need to cut off Russia energy purchases before he will take bigger steps to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine. -
Erika Kirk said Charlie Kirk's mission will continue, and thanked law enforcement and President Trump for supporting her family in the aftermath of her husband's death. -
NPR's Scott Simon recounts the toll of five years of political violence in the U.S. -
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.
