LEXINGTON, Ky. — A new analytical system created by University of Kentucky researchers is helping to predict and prevent opioid overdoses in Kentucky. The surveillance system, called Rapid Actionable Data for Opioid Response in Kentucky (RADOR-KY), is used to inform overdose prevention and response efforts throughout the state by giving health departments, community organizations and policymakers access to near-real-time opioid overdose data for every county in Kentucky. Developed by a UK research team led by Svetla Slavova, Ph.D., and Jeffery Talbert, Ph.D., work on the RADOR-KY dashboard began in 2023 with a three-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  […]

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PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky men’s golf earned its second win of the spring, closing out the Bluegrass Collegiate Invitational with a team score of 858 (+6) to win by four shots at the University Club of Kentucky’s Big Blue Course (par 71, 7013 yards) on Tuesday.  “Super proud of the guys this week,” head coach Gator Todd said. “It’s never easy winning and I don’t want us to take it for granted. This should give us some real momentum heading into SECs.”  Three Wildcats placed inside the top five, while all five UK starters were within […]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Holocaust survivor and longtime leader of the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, John Rosenberg, is featured on a new episode of the Legal Services Corporation’s (LSC) podcast, “Talk Justice.” LSC President Ron Flagg speaks with Rosenberg about his memories of Nazi Germany, becoming a lawyer in the United States, working for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and earning the trust of his Eastern Kentucky community.   Rosenberg said he remembers being 7 years old in 1938, watching Nazis destroy his synagogue in the middle of the night — the night now known as Kristallnacht. The synagogue was adjacent to his […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman eight months ago. Austin Reahard, 31, of Prestonsburg, is accused of grabbing the woman by the shoulders as she walked out of a Prestonsburg restaurant August 29 and shoving her to the ground. The woman hit the ground with such force that the arrest warrant says she suffered a fractured vertebra. Reahard is now charged with second-degree assault, a felony punishable by 5-to-10 years in prison. He was released from jail on an unsecured $25,000 bond.

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BY ZACH AKERS – SPORTS WRITER The bass of stock cars thundering around Bristol Motor Speedway hits you before you even find your seat. It is a feeling every NASCAR fan knows, the kind that rattles your chest and reminds you why you fell in love with the sport in the first place. Race weekend at the Suburban Propane 300 delivered exactly that. But from inside the Suburban Propane suite, there was another story unfolding, one that stretched far beyond the high banks of Bristol and into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia, the area that most people […]

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