On Friday, the Kentucky State Police responded to Rand Paul's residence in Bowling Green at 3:21 p.m. When they arrived, troopers say they discovered that Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green, intentionally assaulted Sen. Rand Paul causing minor injury. Troopers say Senator Paul was not transported to the hospital.

The US has more citizens who are illiterate than many of its developed counterparts. Why is that?

The story of Harlan County, Kentucky’s Civil War legend and the KKK. By Andrew Milton Smith.

Three-day trial ends, ruling is months away. Lexington Herald-Leader editorial.

Decades before cannabis was made illegal in 1937, hemp was a big cash crop for Kentucky. In 1850, the Bluegrass State produced 40,000 tons of the stuff. During World War II, the government paid citizens to grow the plant. Now it's at the center of a bill that would legalize hemp on a federal level.

The Appalachian mountain ranges are home to fervent Trump supporters who want him to back them now. By Laura Bicker.

Watchdog groups have vowed to make sure Bible classes in Kentucky public schools don’t go from teaching to preaching. By Corky Siemaszko. (June 28, 2017)

A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry. By Peter Slavin.

Hate groups have come to tiny Pikeville in a bid for support, but locals fear a violent standoff between the neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters. By Lois Beckett .

Another week, another cluster of overdoses. This time it happened in Louisville, Kentucky, where Louisville Metro Emergency Services responded to 52 overdose calls between midnight Wednesday and 8 a.m. ET Friday, said agency spokesman Mitchell Burmeister. That was a big jump over the 25 overdose calls received in the same 32-hour time frame last week.

Kentucky’s new anti-abortion law assumes — incorrectly — that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks. By Jordan Smith.

As of January 27, the state of Kentucky will have only one remaining legal abortion provider. The EMW Women’s Clinic in Lexington is closing, news that was first reported in a Friday post on the Kentucky National Organization for Women Facebook page.

"He enjoyed the attention he got from the Facebook stuff" An aspiring weatherman was arrested in Kentucky this week after intentionally setting a wildfire in order to film it and get more Facebook views. Johnny Mullins, 21, was arrested and charged with second-degree arson, the Associated Press reported. He often posted video segments that he called “Weather Outlook,” NBC News reported. His final video got 2,900 views.

Even after the brutal battles at Bull Run and Wilson’s Creek had made clear the depth of the conflict awaiting North and South, the people and communities along the border were still trying to decide where their true allegiances lay.

HE’S had us lickin’ our fingers for years but is the secret finally out to Colonel Harland Sanders’ tasty blend of 11 herbs and spices? The original recipe has been closely guarded since the 1940s, when Colonel Sanders began cooking his famous chicken, and is thought to be the key to the fast-food giant’s success, reports The Sun. But this week American news outlet the Chicago Tribune has published what it claims to be the secret recipe found in an old scrap book belonging to one of the Colonel’s relatives.

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Favorite Nyquist ran a perfect race to extend his unbeaten record winning the 142nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday, sparking talk of a second consecutive Triple Crown champion.

“In Corbin, according to Harland Sanders, ‘Bootleggin’s, fights, and shootin’s was as regular as a rooster’s crowing in the mornin’.’ Whether or not this excessive chicken noise informed Sanders’ future career is impossible to say, but Corbin is where he began his gradual transformation into the future famous food icon.” By Alan Bellows.

A Kentucky state lawmaker has filed a bill that would require men to have at least two office visits and swear on a Bible they are married before a doctor could prescribe them erectile dysfunction medication. The bill by State Representative Mary Lou Marzian, a Democrat from Louisville, is in response to Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signing a bill last week requiring women to consult with a doctor at least 24 hours before an abortion.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin stormed into office promising to kill off the state’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion immediately. By Sarah Kliff.