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The Trail Hotel Joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail Experience

FTN News · August 27, 2025

The Trail Hotel in Bardstown, Kentucky, has joined the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® experience as an official partner, becoming the only full-service hotel in the city with this designation. The announcement, made this week, integrates the hotel into a...

HHS Order States to Remove Gender Ideology Content From Sex Education

Healthcare Innovation · August 26, 2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announced on August 26 in a press release that it has demanded that 46 states and territories remove all references to gender...

Pye-Barker acquires Modern Systems, enhancing full-service life safety in Kentucky

Security Systems News ·

ATLANTA—Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has announced the acquisition of Kentucky alarm and security company Modern Systems. This acquisition bolsters Pye-Barker's impact on fire and life safety throughout Kentucky, expanding full fire code compliance to...

KSR’s 2025 Kentucky Football Season Predictions

On3 · August 27, 2025

The 2025 Kentucky Football season kicks off on Saturday vs. Toledo. How does the KSR crew think the Cats will do in a pivotal year for Mark Stoops? Surely, we’ll be closer with our predictions than we were last year. After a disappointing 2024...

The United Way of Southern KY advocates for early childhood education

WBKO - Kentucky · August 27, 2025

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -Tuesday, the United Way of Southern Kentucky held a viewing of “No Small Matter,” a documentary that advocates for early childhood education. United Way hosted the viewing to spread awareness about the importance of...

Federal health agency orders states to strip references to gender identity from sex ed

SC Daily Gazette - South Carolina · August 26, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding. The U.S....

Federal agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed

The Daily Chronicle - Washington State ·

By Shauneen Miranda / States Newsroom WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth,...

Health Department threatens to pull states' sex ed funding for including 'gender ideology' in programs

Spectrum News 13 - Florida · August 26, 2025

The Trump administration has escalated its efforts to ban sex ed programs from teaching youth about being transgender, threatening to pull a total of more than $81 million in funding from 40 states and six territories unless they remove “all...

HHS warns Kentucky, other states: Remove 'gender ideology' from sex ed or lose funding

WHAS 11 - Kentucky · August 26, 2025

The conversation around sex education in Kentucky just got louder and a lot more urgent. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Trump administration has warned 46 states and territories, including Kentucky, to remove “gender ideology” from federally funded sex...

Trump administration threatens to pull federal funds over inclusion of gender identity in sex ed

Chalkbeat ·

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from 40 states for a sex education program aimed at vulnerable teens unless...

Wave of active shooter hoaxes at universities reaches WVU and University of Kentucky

WSAZ - West Virginia · August 26, 2025

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - “Need all available units. Got a shots heard called in at Wise Library.” “Now reporting there’s a male in a vehicle walking around the library with a rifle. They’ve heard three shots. Unknown location at this time” That...

Kentucky State Police now accepting applications for next cadet class

WNKY - Kentucky · August 26, 2025

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky State Police is now taking applications for its next cadet class for future troopers. That’s according to an announcement on Tuesday by Gov. Andy Beshear and KSP. The release states KSP is offering increased salaries...

HHS orders CT, other states to remove gender from sex education

The Connecticut Mirror · August 26, 2025

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education...

'This is not stealing': Kentucky church defends members for not returning 'sexually perverse books' to library

The Christian Post - Washington D.C. · August 26, 2025

By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, August 26, 2025 A screenshot of a June 2024 video from Reformation Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky. | Screenshot/Facebook/Reformation ChurchThe leadership of a Baptist church in Kentucky says they...

South Carolina grant funding on chopping block over ‘gender ideology’ in sex ed

WCSC - South Carolina · August 26, 2025

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina is at risk of losing nearly $1.6 million in sex education funding if it does not remove curriculum content on gender ideology, according to the Trump administration. The Palmetto State is just one of 46...

Trump’s health department orders states to strip gender from sex ed

Louisiana Illuminator · August 26, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding. The U.S....

US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed

Idaho Capital Sun · August 26, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding. The U.S....

Iowa included in Trump funding threat over gender ideology content in sex ed materials

KRNV - Nevada ·

Iowa is one of 46 states and U.S. territories ordered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to remove references to gender ideology from federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program materials within 60 days. Millions in...

Elderly women rescued from hot tub at remote Kentucky cabin

Fox News ·

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A girls’ trip to a remote cabin in Kentucky nearly ended in tragedy when two women in their 80s took a soak in a hot tub...

Should Indiana and Kentucky Add Extra School Holidays Like New York? [POLL]

WGBF - Indiana · August 26, 2025

Taking Time Off Around Labor Day I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a break from work. With Labor Day right around the corner, I took a look at my vacation schedule and realized I have a few days I need to use up. We took a big trip in May...