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House bill would raise sports gambling age to 21

The News-Enterprise 21 Mar 2026
FRANKFORT — The Republican-controlled Kentucky House voted Thursday to raise the age to gamble on sports to 21 and ban proposition bets, or “prop” bets, on Kentucky college athletes ... .
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Senate budget includes support for kinship care

The News-Enterprise 21 Mar 2026
The Senate’s state budget proposal includes some funding for a long-delayed law to help Kentuckians raising minor relatives get financial support, but it’s nearly $10 million shy of what the Beshear administration says it needs for implementation ...
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House passes bill raising sports gambling age in KY to 21

The Paducah Sun 21 Mar 2026
The GOP-controlled Kentucky House voted Thursday to raise the age to gamble on sports to 21 and ban proposition bets, or “prop” bets, on Kentucky college athletes ... .
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KY judge reprimanded for ‘hostile,’ ‘undignified’ conduct in courtroom

Kentucky New Era 21 Mar 2026
A Central Kentucky judge has been reprimanded for yelling at juvenile defendants and more, according to an agreed order released Friday by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission ... .
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Kentucky House votes to forward impeachment charges against sitting Lexington judge

Kentucky New Era 21 Mar 2026
The Kentucky House has approved charges to impeach a sitting Central Kentucky judge after a House committee heard testimony from her earlier this week ... .
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GUEST COMMENTARY: The life raft for Kentucky’s children is sinking

The Sentinel Echo 20 Mar 2026
Imagine a vulnerable child alone in a small life raft, struggling within a vast ocean as storms rage onward. The raft isn’t secure. The shoreline is far away ... .
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Senate unanimously passes $31 billion budget bill

The News-Enterprise 20 Mar 2026
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Senate unanimously passed its version of the two-year state budget Wednesday providing less money than the House for public schools but substantially more for Medicaid, while cutting a number of state agency’s budgets ... .
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High priority anti-grooming bill advances in KY legislature

The Paducah Sun 20 Mar 2026
A Kentucky Republican bill to criminalize the sexual grooming of minors cleared another legislative hurdle Thursday ... .
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Horse trainer plays ‘outsider’ role in KY Democratic Senate debate

The Paducah Sun 20 Mar 2026
Four Kentucky Democrats — hoping to show their electability in a state that has sent no Democrat to the U.S. Senate this century — disagreed on a few points during a televised debate Tuesday night, while vowing to help steer ... .
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High priority anti-grooming bill advances in Kentucky legislature

Kentucky New Era 20 Mar 2026
FRANKFORT — A Kentucky Republican bill to criminalize the sexual grooming of minors cleared another legislative hurdle Thursday ... .
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Anti-grooming bill advances in Ky. legislature

The Daily Independent - Ashland 20 Mar 2026
FRANKFORT A Kentucky Republican bill to criminalize the sexual grooming of minors cleared another legislative hurdle Thursday ... .
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