Horse racing will be suspended at Churchill Downs and moved to a different Kentucky racetrack as federal and state regulators continue to investigate the deaths of 12 horses at Churchill in the past five weeks, the company said in a statement on Friday. Live horse racing will continue at the home of the Kentucky Derby […]
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Renae Green-Bean had started taking precautions in public even before the Tennessee legislature approved a law in March limiting where “adult cabaret” can be performed. Ms. Green-Bean had watched the uptick in legislation restricting L.G.B.T.Q. rights and worried that restaurant nights with her wife, children or grandchildren, or her preference for masculine attire and closely […]
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Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty While the America we live in today is far different from the one where Black people were enslaved and discriminated against based solely on skin color, remnants of the past still pop up in the present. That was the case over in Pulaski County earlier this week when a Kentucky […]
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On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida went out on a limb. On Tuesday, it snapped. A day after he swooped into the Republican primary for Kentucky governor with a last-minute endorsement — a move that turned the race into an obvious proxy fight between himself and former President Donald J. Trump — Mr. DeSantis […]
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Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general and a close ally of Senator Mitch McConnell, clinched the state’s Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, fending off a spirited and costly challenge by Kelly Craft, a wealthy former ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Cameron’s double-digit victory sets up what is likely to […]
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Though 2023 is an off year for American politics, largely dominated by the emerging Republican presidential primary race and a series of scandals and controversies, there are still critical elections this year, offering an early window into the mood of voters in both parties before 2024. In Kentucky, a divisive Republican primary for governor will […]
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The 149th Kentucky Derby has not been without significant controversy, but the race never fails to bring out the most adventurous hat-wearers of any American sporting event. For many who attend, the annual race at Churchill Downs provides an opportunity to show off homemade creations and high-fashion pieces — from headbands with flowers to full-on […]
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Thousands of guests converged for the coronation of King Charles III in London today, with millions more watching from around the world. Royal events always provide opportunities for tradition-laden fashion. Few are more fun to gawk at than the upper-crust British tradition of wearing hats known as fascinators — whimsical sculptures in pastel colors, some […]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State veterinarians on Saturday morning scratched Forte, the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, after examining him and finding him unfit to compete because of a bruise on his right front hoof. Rumors that the colt was unwell had swirled throughout Churchill Downs over the week. Kentucky regulators had no immediate comment, […]
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The article will be updated. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky state veterinarians on Saturday morning scratched Forte, the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, after examining him and finding him unfit to compete. The veterinarians did not give details, but rumors that the colt was unwell had swirled throughout the backside of Churchill Downs throughout the […]
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This article will be updated. Only days before horse racing’s signature event, the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs is looking into the recent deaths during training of four horses, including a colt who was scheduled to run in Saturday’s Derby. Wild on Ice, a 3-year-old who had three wins in five career starts and was in […]
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As he spoke to about a dozen voters in a dimly lit Mexican restaurant on the outskirts of Louisville, Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s popular attorney general, explained how he viewed the tightening battle for the Republican nomination for governor. “Some folks in this race have been running on ads, and I’ve been running on a record,” […]
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When rising floodwater surrounded her home the morning of July 29, Carolyn Combs felt a sense of déjà vu. The year before, floodwater had filled the first floor of her family’s home in Jackson, Ky., damaging living spaces, storage and her two teenage children’s bedrooms. Ms. Combs, her husband and their children spent months living […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to off-roading opportunities in America, the list is vast and overwhelming. The U.S. has tons of territory to explore in your off-road vehicle — everything from fun and leisurely sightseeing to technical and challenging “is-that-even-a-road?” terrain. In this installment, we’re going to focus on some of the best canyons in the country. […]
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At the same time, red states have gone all in on weaponizing our society. We’re seeing permitless concealed carry, open carry, allowances to carry in more places, ending gun-free zones, laws banning red-flag laws; all the while, the number of guns in circulation keeps rising by the millions, year after year after year. Republicans keep […]
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Walgreens had said in January that it would offer mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion. The Food and Drug Administration changed its rules to allow pharmacies in states that still allow abortion to dispense the drug. Pharmacies would need to get certified to do so because the FDA currently classifies mifepristone […]
Read MoreLaw enforcement officers respond to an active shooter at the Old National Bank building on April 10, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: Luke Sharrett/Getty Images) Updated Monday, April 10, 2023, 4:28 p.m. Shortly after 8 a.m. on Monday, a 23-year-old walked into the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville and opened fire in a conference […]
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At least five people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Ky. on Monday morning, the police said. Paul Humphrey, the deputy chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, said that police received calls about a shooting at Old National Bank around 8:30 a.m. and when […]
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Walgreens had said in January that it would offer mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion. The Food and Drug Administration changed its rules to allow pharmacies in states that still allow abortion to dispense the drug. Pharmacies would need to get certified to do so because the FDA currently classifies mifepristone […]
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Walgreens had said in January that it would offer mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion. The Food and Drug Administration changed its rules to allow pharmacies in states that still allow abortion to dispense the drug. Pharmacies would need to get certified to do so because the FDA currently classifies mifepristone […]
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A large tornado was spotted near Little Rock, Ark., on Friday afternoon, prompting meteorologists there to evacuate as the National Weather Service declared it an “emergency.” The tornado is part of a complex and dangerous storm system that is poised to hit the Upper Midwest and South, forecasters said. Images from the city showed debris […]
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“This cannot stand,” the Fox News host Jesse Watters told his viewers. “This doesn’t feel right. Something feels terrible.” Sean Hannity declared that Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, “has literally thrown the rule of law to the wind in exchange for a cheap act of petty political vengeance.” As the world absorbed the […]
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Nine soldiers were killed after two United States Army helicopters collided during a training mission near an Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border on Wednesday night, the Army said. The two HH-60 Black Hawk assault helicopters crashed into each other at about 10 p.m. during a routine training mission in Trigg County, Ky., Nondice L. […]
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The Republican-dominated Kentucky legislature voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override the governor’s veto of a bill that will create a host of new regulations and restrictions on transgender youth, including banning access to what doctors call gender-affirming health care. The bill, described by L.G.B.T.Q. rights groups as among the most extreme in the nation, was […]
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said he’s “into” the repeal effort—so long as the 2001 AUMF enacted after 9/11 remains untouched. Such an opinion is likely held by many members in both parties. While endorsing the effort to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations, the Biden administration noted that the U.S. “conducts no ongoing […]
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“I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly, because of the situation,” Burchett proceeded, not really clarifying what the “situation” was that is preventing lawmakers from taking action on gun control. “Like I said, I don’t think a criminal is going to stop from guns, you know, […]
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Along the riverbanks of Eastern Kentucky, the redbud trees are just starting to bloom, their branches still lumbering under the weight of last summer’s catastrophic flood: Lawn chairs, trampolines, twisted gutters and school backpacks remain high in the treetops, each item a persistent and disorienting sign of how life here was turned upside down last […]
Read MoreA woman holds bottles of tianeptine, also known as “gas station heroin,” at a convenience store in Jacksonville, Florida. (Octavio Jones/VICE News) Kentucky has become the latest state to ban tianeptine, an antidepressant known as “gas station heroin” that’s causing extreme addiction and withdrawals in some users because it hits opioid receptors in the brain. […]
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Meanwhile, Republican Representative Matt Rosendale has been lobbying the FWS to delist the grizzly bear from the endangered species list too—something the FWS is now doing. Similar to the gray wolf, the grizzly bear has only recently begun to spring back, and certainly not to the same extent as before human-caused overhunting and habitat loss. […]
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DANVILLE, Ky. — Steering his S.U.V. through pounding rain on his way to the state capital on a recent Thursday, Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, reflected on the pressure he often faced from constituents to investigate unhinged claims about President Biden and Democrats. “You know, the customer’s always […]
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The detectives sent DNA left by the killer on the victim to a lab to be tested through genetic genealogy, the process in which DNA samples are used to find relatives of suspects, which in this case was Mr. Dunaway. Detectives traveled to meet a child of Mr. Dunaway’s — who had never really known […]
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