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By Kate LochteMurray, KY – Turkish American musician Latif Bolat gives a performance of traditional Turkish Sufi devotional music and poetry with slides…

Ft. Donelson Lacks Funding

By Carrie PondDover, TN – The National Parks Conservation Association says four Civil War battlefields in Tennessee are among those in the greatest need…

International Mystery Writers Festival

By Mark WelchMurray, KY – Paducah resident Don Maley is participating in the 5 day event beginning June 12th in Owensboro, Kentucky. He gives Mark Welch…

Byrd Honored in Kentucky

By Angela HattonFrankfort, KY – Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has ordered flags to half-staff at all state office buildings in honor of the late Senator…

Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence

Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Author, Scientist Assist in Tracing Lineage

Edward Ball is deeply interested in genetic testing to determine family history. Ball discusses his new book The Genetic Strand. Also joining the conversation is Rick Kittles, who helps African-Americans use technology to trace their roots through DNA samples.

In 1936, in front of an estimated 20,000 spectators, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro at the last public execution in the United States. A new book by an Owensboro native examines Bethea's case and lynch culture in America.

20,000 people watched a Black man hang in Owensboro 90 years ago. A new book looks at why

A new book from a Kentucky native details the last public hanging in the United States, which took place in Owensboro 1936, and examines it through the lens of lynch culture in America.

President-elect Trump picks RFK Jr. to run Health and Human Services Department

President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of spreading conspiracies, including about vaccines, to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador who was killed Tuesday in Libya, often chose difficult assignments. He worked closely with Libya's rebels last year when they overthrew Moammar Gadhafi. He's shown here speaking to journalists in Benghazi in April 2011, shortly after the uprising against Gadhafi began.

Slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens Thrived On Tough Assignments

The ambassador always wanted to get out of the embassy and experience events firsthand. Stevens spent much of his career in North Africa and was thrilled to be in Libya at this crucial time in its history.

An aerial view of the Suncor oil sands extraction facility on the banks of the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, in 2009. Scientists say contaminants found at the bottom of lakes in Alberta are from air pollutants from the facilities responsible for producing and processing tar sands oil.

Deep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands Pollution

The contaminants researchers found at the bottom of Alberta lakes are from air pollutants coming from tar sands oil production and processing facilities. The pollution wasn't picked up by the industry-funded monitoring program that was supposed to track environmental risks from tar sands over recent decades.

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