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The unwelcome ingredient in Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry? Whiskey fungus

The booming $9 billion Kentucky bourbon industry has created a boom in something else: Whiskey fungus.

Tribune News Service

America's summer of floods: What cities can learn from today's climate crises to prepare for tomorrow's

Powerful storms across the South, following flash floods in Dallas, Death Valley, St. Louis, Yellowstone and Appalachia, have left cities across the U.S. questioning their own security in a warming climate.

The Conversation

Why is corn so important to bourbon?

The law stipulates that bourbon has to be made with 51% corn — a decision rooted in history, geography and flavor

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One month later, Kentucky flood evacuees weigh cloudy future

Nearly a month after torrential rainfall brought devastating floods to eastern Kentucky, many victims remain in shelters

The Independent UK

Former detective pleads guilty to civil rights violations in Breonna Taylor case

Ex-Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett is first conviction in case of Black woman killed by police in her own home in Kentucky

The Guardian - US

After split between McConnell and Paul, Kentucky judicial post at ‘a stalemate’

WASHINGTON — The collapse of the planned nomination of Chad Meredith to become a federal judge in eastern Kentucky likely means the court will remain in its current form for months as the White House looks to steer clear of further political headaches with the midterm elections approaching.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

College Football Scoreboard, Predictions: Week 1 Saturday

Week 1 college football schedule, predictions, lines, and TV listings: Saturday

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Beshear cites progress in FEMA response to Kentucky flooding

Kentucky's governor is pointing to signs of progress as federal emergency personnel respond to requests for assistance in flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky

The Independent UK

Dear Abby: My wife has more than just a taste at whisky tastings

She’s usually not a heavy drinker, but when offered a sample of single malt scotch or Kentucky bourbon, she gulps it like wine and starts acting intoxicated.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mark Story: Can UK prevent Stoops-Calipari from becoming Bear Bryant-Adolph Rupp II?

Adolph Rupp is the greatest men’s basketball coach in Southeastern Conference history. Before Nick Saban, Bear Bryant was the greatest football coach the SEC had ever seen.

Tribune News Service

John Clay: We’re witnessing a strange, new chapter in University of Kentucky athletics

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you see something new.

Tribune News Service

With many Ky. counties at high COVID-19 level, governor hopes for plateau in new cases

The vast majority of Kentucky counties remain at medium or high COVID-19 community levels under the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest update, but with a growing number of counties at low levels, it could mean the upsurge in cases is cresting in the Bluegrass State.

Tribune News Service

Missing 12-year-old girl is found dead after father ‘tried to kill himself’

Body of Stacia Leigh Collins found on ‘very remote’ road in eastern Kentucky

The Independent UK

Chicago outdoors: Emily Dickinson and snakes, Chicago River night heron, stinkhorn, Kentucky elk

Emily Dickinson on the reaction to snakes, a good photo of a black-crowned night heron on the Chicago River, the restoration numbers of elk in Kentucky and a question/notes on stinkhorns are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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AP Week in Pictures: Global |Aug. 6- Aug. 12, 2022

From presidential election coverage in Kenya, to a young Shiite Muslim boy flagellating himself during an Ashoura procession in India, to the aftermath of flooding in Kentucky, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the…

The Independent UK

Governor says FEMA denying too many requests for assistance

Kentucky's governor says the Federal Emergency Management Agency is denying too many requests for assistance in flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky

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Semi-Truck Can't Hold Its Beer, Spills Bud Light On Kentucky Highway

There were no injuries in the crash.

The Conversation

There's reason for people on opposing sides of abortion to talk, even if they disagree – it helps build respect, understanding and can lead to policy change

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has split the country into joyous supporters and furious dissenters. Emotions are running high, and some protests have turned violent. Yet research shows that people on either side of the abortion rights issue can bridge their divide if they speak directly…

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Salon

This time Trump is trapped — and afraid

Donald Trump's lifelong grift is nearing its final act. Across America his power is fading — and he knows it

Daily Mirror

Haunted sanatorium where thousands of patients died and you can play ball with a ghost

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky was opened up to help contain a tuberculosis outbreak and a series of 'bloody' experiments were carried out on its suffering patients

The Guardian - US

America’s summer of floods: climate crisis fueling barrage, scientists say

Yellowstone, Death Valley, Kentucky – experts say extreme rainfall spurred by global heating is rendering historical norms obsolete

Sports Illustrated

Report: UK’s Tshiebwe to Make $500K This Week in Bahamas

Kentucky basketball star Oscar Tshiebwe isn’t necessarily relaxing on the team’s bonding trip to the Bahamas this week.

The Independent UK

Teen's death is latest tragedy in flood-ravaged Kentucky

The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping his fellow eastern Kentuckians clean up from flooding has added another layer of grief to the tragedy

McClatchy Washington Bureau

‘Limp & late’: Trump allies pound McConnell for measured response to FBI search

WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there.

The Independent UK

Semi-truck full of Bud Light overturns on Kentucky highway spilling cans everywhere

“Looks like my basement back in 2006,” joked one social media user of the spill

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