Hoops For Hope Tips Off

Hoops For Hope Tips Off The fourth annual Hoops for Hope tipped off Saturday morning.Teams from multiple states laced up their shoes for the basketball tournament in Louisa.Sports are known to bring people together.”Rise Above’s mission is “Together making things better,” said organizer Matt Brown.That’s what the Lawrence County tournament is aimed to do.”This…

Governor Bevin Discussess Immigration

Governor Bevin Discussess Immigration Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says some Republican lawmakers will introduce legislation to keep local governments from enacting policies that would keep police from cooperating with immigration authorities.Bevin started his announcement Friday in Lexington by explaining that the proposed bill is not about immigration. Instead, it is about better supporting law…

Smoke Alarms Recalled

Smoke Alarms Recalled Universal Security Instruments has recalled nearly 200,000 smoke alarms over reports that the devices have failed to activate during a fire.The smoke alarms can have a misaligned internal switch, which causes the device to not active during a fire.This recall involves Universal Security Instruments 10-year battery-operated ionization smoke and fire alarms…

Governor Bevin To Speak On Sanctuary Cities

Governor Bevin To Speak On Sanctuary Cities Governor Matt Bevin is expected to make an announcement in Lexington regarding sanctuary city policies.He will join state lawmakers, law enforcement officials and representatives from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.A ‘sanctuary city’ is a city were municipal laws tend to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or…

McConnell Lands Grant For UK

McConnell Lands Grant For UK U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday the U.S. Department of Energy will invest nearly $2.23 million in federal funding for the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER).This grant will be in addition to the $934,554 in federal funding McConnell helped get in 2018.This…