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Doctors fearing legal blowback are denying life-saving abortions

Hospitals and doctors are struggling to toe the line between providing life-saving measures for women and wading into a legal gray area that’s emerged in the absence of abortion rights.

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‘Don’t quit. Organize’: Amazon union push spreads it wings after New York success

Workers in North Carolina, Maryland and Kentucky bid to become unionized as criticism of Jeff Bezos’s retail monolith grows

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Kentucky man indicted in slaying of 3 police officers

A Kentucky man charged with killing three officers in an ambush while police were serving a protective order has been indicted on 20 charges

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Biden planned to pick Thomas-style judge

Biden reportedly agreed to nominate anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith in deal with Mitch McConnell

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‘Brazen cash grab.’ Kentucky man sentenced over $1.3 million in fraudulent COVID loans

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A central Kentucky businessman who submitted false information to receive $1.3 million in coronavirus relief loans and used some of it for gambling debts has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison.

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International influence steals show during opening round of Kentucky’s PGA event

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — As Camilo Villegas completed his opening round early Thursday afternoon at the PGA Barbasol Championship, he was met with polite approval in his native language.

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Photos: Best shots of the PGA Tour’s 2022 Barbasol Championship at Champion Trace

Check out the best photos of the week from the 2022 Barbasol Championship.

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Abortion rights hacktivists strike states with bans

An abortion rights hacktivist group says it launched cyberattacks against Arkansas and Kentucky state governments and leaked files from their servers to protest their bans on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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Kentucky running back Chris Rodriguez pleads guilty to DUI charge, receives penalties

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky running back Chris Rodriguez accepted a guilty plea from the prosecution during his pre-trial conference on Tuesday.

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Funerals begin for 3 Kentucky officers killed in ambush

The first of three Kentucky police officers killed in an ambush last week has been laid to rest

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Flags to be lowered in Kentucky after 3 officers killed

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says flags at state buildings will be lowered to half-staff in honor of three officers who were killed when a man with a rifle opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant

The Independent UK

Churchgoer bitten by snake during service dies after 'refusing medical treatment'

John David Brock was injured while handling the snake at a service in Jenson, Kentucky, when the reptile sunk its teeth into his arm, local authorities in the town said

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Covered bridges once dotted Kentucky’s countryside. Fewer than a dozen remain standing

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Just before World War II, covered bridges — also called kissing bridges — could be found all over Kentucky, spanning rivers and creeks. Now, only 11 remain.

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Eastern Kentucky community ‘forever changed’ after 3 officers shot dead in Floyd County

Local officials on Sunday recounted the fatal shooting that left three law enforcement officers dead on Thursday. It was called “the deadliest law enforcement death event in Kentucky” since 1923 by Ross Shurtleff, deputy chief of Prestonsburg police.

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Appeals judge denies request by Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron that would have again halted abortions

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge has denied a motion by Attorney General Daniel Cameron in a lawsuit over the state’s abortion laws, a move that will allow abortions to continue for now.

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‘They encountered pure hell.’ Sheriff says man who killed Kentucky cops opened fire without warning

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Police who went to a home in a small eastern Kentucky town to investigate an alleged rape ran into a storm of bullets in which three officers died and several others were injured, according to local officials.

Axios

What we know about the Kentucky mass shooting

"[The alleged shooter] was a sheer terrorist ... he was just a terrorist on a mission,” the sheriff said.

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3 police officers were killed in Kentucky by a suspect with a rifle

Police took 49-year-old Lance Storz into custody late Thursday night after an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia.

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Kentucky man shoots 6 officers, killing 2

Two law enforcement officers were killed, and four other officers were shot Thursday night after a man barricaded in his home opened fire with a rifle in Allen, Kentucky, a rural town so small that it lacks its own police force, authorities said.

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2 police officers killed in Kentucky by suspect with rifle

Two officers were killed when a man opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant at a home in eastern Kentucky Thursday night

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

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US judges halt abortion bans in Kentucky and Florida

Courts block conservative states from enforcing bans as abortion rights groups push for injunctions after fall of Roe.

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Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s trigger law banning abortions. Procedure can continue for now

A Louisville judge has blocked enforcement of Kentucky’s trigger law banning nearly all abortions, permitting licensed providers to continue offering the procedure until at least next week.

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Kentucky judge blocks two anti-abortion laws from going into effect after Supreme Court ruling

A judge granted a temporary restraining order to stop enforcement of state’s ‘trigger’ law and six-week ban

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Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban

A judge cleared the way Thursday for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state’s near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade

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