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        Mack Carmack
        In Your Community
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        Ellen Ice
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        Vacation Bible School for differently-abled adults coming to Corbin this June

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        London Police Department cancels Golden Alert for 17-year-old boy

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        Best of the Bluegrass

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        Lexington police, Department of Homeland Security conduct local investigation

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        Ellen Ice
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        KSP: Human skeletal remains found in Madison County woods

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        Daily Forecast

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        Frankfort firefighters extinguish pawn shop set

        Mack Carmack
        Jessamine County Fire District rescues 2 hikers

        Covering Kentucky

        Central Kentucky firefighters rescue 2 lost hikers from Jessamine Creek Gorge

        Mack Carmack
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        Crime

        Knox County man in custody after allegedly assaulting woman and her 2 kids

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        Coroner: New details in Friday Woodford County fatal collision

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        BBN Tonight

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        Kentucky's Jasper Johnson, Brandon Garrison expected to enter transfer portal

        Rosemary Kelley
        UK fans

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        Sianni Appolon: Two-time state champ, trailblazer in girls' wrestling

        Megan Mannering
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        Kentucky legislature, Beshear react to news of proposed Mitch McConnell statue

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        Beshear signs Logan's Law to strengthen sentencing, parole for violent offenders

        Annie Brown
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        National News

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        Local Lexington distillery avoids the negative impacts of tariffs

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        Daily Forecast

        Easter weekend brings spring showers

        Emily McKinney
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        Crime

        Lexington police arrest 30-year-old man following alleged armed robbery, assault

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        AP via Scripps News Group
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        Covering Kentucky

        DHS urges Lexington officials to not release man accused of child rape

        Erin Rosas
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        Kentucky overrides veto to shield Roundup maker from cancer lawsuits

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        Tom Ackerman
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        Covering Kentucky

        Crittenden County deputy dies weeks after being shot on duty, Beshear reports

        Rosemary Kelley
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        Stanford Walmart evacuated, closed as police work to clear 'possible threat'

        Rosemary Kelley
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        Covering Kentucky

        Traffic collisions increase along a busy stretch of U.S. 27 in Nicholasville

        Leigh Searcy
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        Annie Brown
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        Megan Mannering
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        Lexington founder sparks global awareness for rare TAR syndrome

        Molly Demrow
        Mitch McConnell shares opinion on sending American troops to Iran

        Kentucky Politics

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        Evelyn Schultz
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        Michael Berk
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        Covering Kentucky

        Covington man indicted on 244 felony counts of sexual abuse of multiple children

        Rosemary Kelley
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