Sarah Ladd
ReporterSarah Ladd is a Louisville-based journalist and Kentuckian. She has covered everything from crime to higher education. In 2020, she started reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and has covered health ever since.
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Gov. Andy Beshear is letting a bill that would take 67 transgender inmates off hormone therapy and block public funds for inmates’ elective medical treatments become law — without his signature.
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FRANKFORT — Medicaid — the federal-state program that provides health care to almost 1.5 million Kentuckians — is on the chopping block in Washington and could soon come under examination in Frankfort. -
A lawyer for former Rowan County clerk Kim Davis argued before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday in a case he hopes will help overturn federal same-sex marriage protections. -
FRANKFORT — A preliminary report from the Kentucky Office of the Ombudsman says dozens of foster children — including a 1-year-old — have spent an average of four days in Cabinet for Health and Family Services office buildings over a four month period in 2024. -
Advocates for children praise formal rejection of ‘school-sanctioned violence’ -
While Kentucky had more deaths than births in 2023, according to preliminary data, deaths declined. -
Lexington Democrat Rep. Lindsey Burke is under “no delusion” that Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature will hear, much less pass, a bill to reinstate abortion access. But, during the 2025 legislative session, she’s going to file it anyway. -
Gov. Andy Beshear is going to Switzerland in January to speak at the World Economic Forum, his office announced Friday.
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A Northern Kentucky Republican will file a bill in the 2025 legislative session to hold parents and guardians civilly accountable for gun violence or misuse carried out by minor children in their care.
