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Rep. Whitfield named 'Horseman of the Year'

By Greg Kocher

Congressman Ed Whitfield was named Saturday as the first recipient of the "Horseman of the Year" award by The Humane Society of the United States.

Tom Eblen: Bigger roads aren't always better

Kentuckians like to say they bleed blue, especially during basketball and football seasons.

Yarmuth, Northup disagreeon bailout

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE — U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth said Friday that fears of job losses back home spurred his vote for a $700 billion government rescue of the battered financial sector despite his doubts about the plan.

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  • GOP complains about lobbyist who donated to two Democrats

    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    The Kentucky Republican Party filed complaints with the Legislative Ethics Commission Friday against Democratic state Senate candidates Steve Newberry and Kathy Groob for accepting $250 each from a donor who is now a registered lobbyist.

  • Funds raised, spent for state races soar

    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    Two state Senate races this fall — one in Northern Kentucky, the other along Interstate 65 in southwest Kentucky — already have cost about $350,000 each.

  • Halting of parole credit denied

    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd on Friday denied Attorney General Jack Conway's request to immediately bar the Department of Corrections from releasing prisoners under a new parole credit program.

  • One in three inmates back behind bars in 2 years

    By John Cheves

    jcheves@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — One in three inmates released from Kentucky prisons gets into fresh trouble and returns within two years, a hugely expensive trend caused in part by a failure to prepare felons for the outside world, lawmakers were told Thursday.

  • Governor says state revenues have fallen

    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    State revenues took a tumble last month and funding for road construction dropped sharply, Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday, as shock waves from what he called the "unsettling and tumultuous" economic times rumbled through Kentucky.

  • Report: Kentucky's unemployment fund could run dry

    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    With the economy heading south and the financial markets in disarray, there are new concerns that the state's unemployment insurance fund could go broke in as little as six months if Kentucky enters a full-blown recession.

  • Voters' fears about tricks understandable

    Merlene Davis

    Herald-Leader columnist

    OK. Let's settle down and take a deep breath.

  • Outsiders' ads take sides in Senate race
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    An increasing number of outside groups are inserting themselves into Kentucky's U.S. Senate race with an array of advertising that is clogging mailboxes, TV news shows and talk-radio programs.

  • Judge denies PVAs' motion

    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    A Franklin circuit judge denied a motion Wednesday by property value administrators to hold the Executive Branch Ethics Commission in contempt for initiating an investigation into nepotism practices of 11 PVAs.

  • Campaign ads criticize bailout support
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    In a rare example of bipartisan hay-making in the heat of an election, Democratic and Republican challengers launched commercials Tuesday hammering their respective opponent's support for last week's $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill.

  • Stimulus checks unclaimed

    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    Thousands of Kentucky's most vulnerable residents have left millions of dollars in unclaimed stimulus checks in government bank accounts. Those residents only have until Oct. 15 to file a tax return to receive the payment, government officials said Tuesday.

  • Whistle blower records sought

    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    Defense lawyers for an indicted road contractor have subpoenaed the records of a whistle blower who triggered the investigation into alleged bid tampering of state road contracts. But federal prosecutors said during a Tuesday hearing in federal court in Lexington that they will ask a judge to quash that subpoena and another seeking a host of transportation cabinet records.

  • Attacks over veterans intensify in Senate race
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — The candidates in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race continued an airwave war Monday over their records regarding veterans, even as Democrat Bruce Lunsford tried to capitalize on voters' worries about the economy.

  • False alarm stirs black voters

    By John Cheves

    jcheves@herald-leader.com

    A mix-up over the weekend prompted scores of worried black Lexington voters to call or visit the Fayette County clerk's office on Monday and ask why they were purged from the voter rolls — when in fact, they are still registered.

  • State lawmaker killed in traffic crash

    By Ryan Alessi and Steve Lannen

    ralessi@herald-leader.com, slannen@herald-leader.com

    State Rep. Larry Belcher, a Shepherdsville Democrat, was killed in a traffic accident Monday night.

  • Road project ran past Nighbert property
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    By Beth Musgrave

    bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

    During his tenure as transportation secretary, Bill Nighbert oversaw nearly $2 billion in road and bridge improvements — including a $7 million reconstruction of an I-75 interchange in Whitley County where Nighbert owns property.

  • 10 Ky. races to watch down the stretch
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com,Ryan Alessi

    With just a month left before the Nov. 4 election, Kentucky's U.S. Senate race and two of its congressional races have made it onto national political observers' radar screens.

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