10.29.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody, and welcome to the reading of the
Lexington Herald Leader. Today is Wednesday, October twenty ninth, and
your reader is Rod Brotherton. And as you know, Radiowai
is reading service intended for people who are blind to
have other disabilities and make it difficult to read printed material.

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Well November, skies and grayness have descended. Let's take a
look at our seven day forecast. Today rain high fifty
Tonight breezy with rain, low forty five. Thursday, a couple
of showers, high fifty one, low thirty seven. Friday, it'll
be breezy, but there will be sun high fifty eight,

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low forty three. Saturday, cloudy, high fifty seven, low thirty nine. Sunday,
partly Sunday but cool, the high of fifty four and
low forty two. Monday, gray skies and showers, high fifty eight,
low forty two, and on Tuesday a break we get
some sunshine. Hi'll be fifty three in the low forty two.

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For the almanac, Yesterday's high and low fifty three and
forty nine, while the normal is sixty four and forty three.
Last year it was sixty five and thirty nine. The
record high back in nineteen forty was eighty seven and
the record low in nineteen sixty two was only twenty
five degrees. Precipitation on Monday twenty seven hundreds of an inch.

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Month to date though, we've had six point four eight
while the normal is only three point two. Year to
date a whopping fifty two point eight nine with a
normal of forty one point eight one, and last year
we'd had forty one point three two. The record for
yesterday's date was just shy of an inch with ninety
six hundreds of an inch in twenty fifteen. For the

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sun and the moon, we finally broke through. And today
the sun came up at eight oh one and it
was set tonight at six forty three. The moon will
come up this afternoon at three o one and there
will be no moonset through the day. And their weather
trivia late night fog requires what type of sky condition
before forming, and it's a clear sky all right. Let's

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see what the headlines are this Wednesday morning. Food banks
brace for high demand as snap cut off looms. Food
banks across the United States were stretched thin even before
the federal government shut down. Rising food prizes had driven
a growing number of people to their doors. Cuts to

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federal programs had left them with less to give. Now
that system at last resort of tens of millions of
hungry Americans is anticipating and even greater surge in demand.
With no end inside to the nearly month long federal
government shut down, funding for the nation's largest food assistance program,

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known as SNAP, will disappear at the star of November,
according to the Department of Agriculture. On Friday, the Trump
administration said in a memo that it would not tap
into contingency funds to keep payments flowing the states. That
means that the roughly forty two million Americans who rely
on SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, may soon have

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to find other ways to feed themselves in their families.
Many of them will turn to local food pantries. Anti
hunger organizations and food banks say the surging demand will
almost certainly exceed their capacity to respond, and the impact
could resonate well beyond the shutdown. When that social safety

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net breaks above us, we will be there will not
be much that we can do, said Andrew Williams, president
of the Oregon Food Bank, which helps supply food to
roughly twelve hundred pantries and meal sites across Oregon and
southwest Washington, and it will not be enough. There are

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more than forty seven million Americans who at some point
during the year face food insecurity, meaning they do not
have enough to eat and do not know exactly where
their next meal will come from. According to the Departments
of Agriculture's latest report, there are millions more who don't
fully fit that definition, but nonetheless turn to charitable food

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programs for support. According to Feeding America, a nationwide network
of food banks, food pantries, and local meal programs, since
the pandemic, a steady drum beat of inflation has substantially
increased grocery prices, driving more people to limited means with

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limited means to food banks. Visits to Williams network of
food pantries in Oregon are up fifty percent over the
last two years alone, she said. Radhai Muitha, the head
of the Capital Area Food Bank, which serves Washington, d C.
And surrounding counties in Virginia and Maryland, said visits to

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pantries in her service area have doubled since before the pandemic,
and earlier this year. The Trump administration cut nearly one
billion dollars in federal aid for anti hunger programs, including
one that supplies food directly to food banks at distribution
sites in New Orleans and Detroit on Saturday. Volunteers describe

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the situation in simple terms. Demand is up, food supply
is down, said John Silers, who helps run the Second
Harvest Food Bank, a regional agency that supplies food pantries
across southern Louisiana. Several food bank directors who were interviewed
cited the same statistic. Every nine meals that were supplied

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by federal food assistants, food pantries can provide only one
on their own. No matter how then they stretch the resources,
they will not be able to fill the gap. If
funding for SNAP does not come through, it means people
will go hungry, and in particular kids and seniors in
rural communities, William said. In previous federal shutdowns, the outlook

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did not seem quite as grim, said Jill Dixon, director
of the Food Depot, which serves nine counties in northern
New Mexico, the state with the highest proportion of SNAP
recipients among its residents. In those shutdowns, Dixon said there
was always the expectation that the federal government would step

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in to protect SNAP if monthly payments were at stake.
Now that's not the case. She compared the scale of
the need for food assistants that her organization is anticipating
to the early days of the pandemic, when business closures
in mass layoffs. It's in a multitude of Americans scrambling.

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I think it has the potential to be bigger than that,
Dixon said. Some states have taken emergency financial measures to
keep aid flowing to SNAP recipients, while other states search
for answers. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, declared a
state of emergency and anticipation of the cutoff, and California

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Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to call up the National
Guard to support food banks and In Louisiana, where eighteen
percent of the population relies on SNAP, the second highest
proportion after New Mexico, lawmakers are expected to approve using
reserve funds temporarily to cover missing payments. The situation may

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be dire in areas with large populations of federal workerstha
SID The Trump administration's slashing of the federal workforce this
year had already driven up food and security in those
areas when the shutdown cut off paychecks for most of
those who still had government jobs. And the next story

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how a juvenile justice guard kept a job despite violence charges.
A Kentucky juvenile justice guard charged in August with sexting
a fourteen year old girl who had been in state
custody also had a recent history of domestic violence charges
that involved him slapping, punching, choking, and threatening to slash

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a woman's throat with a stake knife. Despite the previous charges,
corrections Officer Travis Edward Porter Is who's forty two, kept
his job at the All Girls Boyd Regional Juvenile Detention
Center in Ashland, operated by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice.

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Porter also wasn't sent to jail in either of the
domestic violence cases. He received a diversion in one case
and a conductional discharge a conditional discharge in the other.
The Hair Leader first reported October tenth on Porter's indictment
on a felony charge for allegedly sexting sexual lewed messages

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and photos of his genitals in May to a fourteen
year old girl who had been held at and who
returned to the juvenile detention center where he worked. He
was fired July sixteenth, as Kentucky State Police investigated the
sexting case. A review of previous court records and documents

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in Porter's state personnel file, which The Herald Leader obtained
through the Kentucky Open Records Act, revealed the trouble Porter
faced in the month ahead of the sexting case. The
Department of Juvenile Justice put Porter on paid leave on
October thirty first, twenty twenty four, and told him he

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would be fired one day after he was arrested by
the Boyd County Sheriff's Department in the first domestic violence case.
He was charged with fourth degree assault and third degree
terroristic threatening in that case. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet
Secretary Keith Jackson was informed that Porter would be terminated,

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which was the decision he supported. Cabinet spokeswoman Morgan Hall
told The Hair Leader last week. Porter's victim, whom police
said had suffered a black eye, busted lip, and red
and cheek, took out a protective order against him in
Boyd District Court. At the time of his arrest, and
that wasn't his first protective order. A different woman took

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out a protective order against Porter in twenty twenty one one.
Also in Boyd District Court, record show Porter admitted to
police he shouldn't have laid hands on the victim, according
to the police report, but Porter got to keep his
job last fall. In a November twentieth, twenty twenty four letter,

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Juvenile Justice Commissioner Randy White reversed his agency's initial decision
to fire Porter. White told the guards to return to
work at the Girl's Detention Center. After taking into consideration
these statements made on your behalf by you at the
predetermination hearing held on November twelfth, twenty twenty four, and

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upon further investigation, I've decided to rescind the October thirty one,
twenty twenty four, intent to dismiss letter to you, White
wrote to Porter, Please understand that if you are convicted plea,
or otherwise found guilty of criminal conduct that is associated

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with the charges, then the Department of Juvenile Justice reserves
the right to potentially pursue disciplinary action against you in
the future, White wrote to Porter. The Harald Leader asked
the Justice to the Cabinet earlier this month why Porter
wasn't fired for the domestic violence charge even before the

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teen sexteen case. Jackson, who is White's boss, replied, I
was advised in twenty twenty four this person was being terminated,
but that decision was reversed without my knowledge or consent.
We're still reviewing the circumstances of this person's hiring, and

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we'll get to the bottom of it. I will be
taking steps to ensure nothing like this happens again, using
the Open Records Act. The Herald Leader then requested all
communications to or from Jackson concerning travel. Last week. The
Justice Cabinet said it had identified twenty five responsive emails,

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but it refused to provide them. The Cabinet cited an
attorney client privilege, saying the Justice Secretary and other cabinet
officials were consulting with the Cabinet's General counsel in those
emails regarding the situation involving Travis Porter. Although Porter returned
to work at the Juvenile Detention Center last fall, he

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was placed on modified duties that kept him from having
direct contact with the girls in custody while the department
monitored the progress of his criminal case, Hall said last week.
State officials said the situation could have been handled better.
After an immediate review of the actions by the former

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employee and the department's related policy, the policies and procedures
regarding failure to report and arrest and other certain criminal
activity will be updated, allowing the department to take more
aggressive action going forward. Hal said the department hired Porter
in twenty twenty two. According to his job application, he

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previously worked with teen girls and boys as a youth
support specialist at the nonprofit Raimi s Step Homes, which
provides behavioral health and recovery services. Porter avoid a conviction
or plea, or any other decisive conclusion in the first
domestic violence case. Instead, Boyd County Attorney Curtis Dotson put

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the arrest and terroristic threatening charges on indefinite hold. Dotson
filed a diversion agreement on February fifth, twenty twenty five,
ordering Porter to have no unlawful contact with the victim
and proposing a review of the case in six months.
Asked by The Herald Leader last week to explain his decision,

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Dodson would only say that he never closed the case.
The objective basically it's not closed out with us. It's
not closed out until there is no new violations. This
particular case is a pending case. Dotson said. Keeping a
case open isn't the same as convicting someone for a

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violent crime then punishing them. Dotson acknowledged, but it is
open with our office. Dotson said, it is no way
completely done. It is still open and pending with our office.
Very I mean, it's all I can say, is that's
the truth. I mean, it's pending. It's pending. It's a

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pending case with US. Porter remained jailed last week in
the Boyd County Detention Center following his August twentieth arrest
in the teen sexting case. Porter's attorney, C. David mustet
Or of Catlinsburg, declined last week to speak with The
Herald Leader. In a court filing on October twenty second,

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must Center asked to withdraw as Porter's attorney, citing irreconcilable
differences that have arisen between him and a client. While
the first domestic violence case was diverted in Boyd County,
a second began in Greenup County. Raceland police arrested Porter
on April third, twenty twenty five and charged him with

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fourth degree assault, second degree strangulation, and third degree strangulation
for another assault on the same woman injured in Boyd County.
The woman told police Porter texted her threatening messages throughout
the day and then burst into her home while drunk,
threw her down on the couch and shoved his fore

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arm into her throat to choke her. According to court records,
The assault stopped when police arrived on the scene. According
to the police report, Porter is six foot four inches
and weighed two hundred and forty pounds at the time
of his arrest. According to the police report, Porter was
charged with fourth degree assault, second degree strangulation, and third

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degree terroristic threatening. At this point. The Department of Juvenile Justice,
made aware of the second arrest, placed Porter on paid
leave again. He remained on leave until he was fired
July sixteenth during the state investigation of the teen's sexteing case,
but Porter didn't serve a jail sentence either for the

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second case. Either. Greenup Commonwealth's Attorney Rhys mackenzie agreed to
a resolution of conditional discharge that meant Porter would have
a three year prison since hanging over his head for
the next three years, he could serve time if he
got in trouble again, and Mackenzie pulled the trigger by

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pursuing a revocation order. Mackenzie also ordered Porter to get
treatment in an intensive outpatient program usually aimed at addressing
substance abuse or anger management issues. Both of Porter's arrest
reports mentioned alcohol use, and yet Porter already had received

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history of a domestic violence charges in Boyd County. Well,
why give him another break instead of sending him to jail. Well,
we only did that after consulting with the victim, and
that was her desire, and that's the reason we agreed,
Mackenzie said. It's certainly something that we take seriously. Mackenzie said,

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but unfortunately, we also have to consider whether the victim
is going to cooperate at trial and provide testimony that
we need. So this one will. It was one that
you know, we talked to her about and we had
some concerns, and this was the outcome that we decided

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to go with, the prosecutor said. Porter has at least
one other unresolved criminal case. In twenty seventeen, felony case
for flagrant non payment of child support had been pending
in green Up Circuit Court for eight years through a

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lengthy series of pretile conferences, and in twenty twenty one,
Porter's arrest by Ashland police on two active bench warrants
for failure to appear at court hearings, and the case
was never closed. But as a result of the teen
sixteing case, Porter faces around of court hearings in the

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coming weeks where prosecutors will take a second look at
his domestic violence and child support cases. In the Greenup
County domestic violence case, for example, Porter is now also
charged with probation violation. A probation revocation hearing in that
case is set for November twentieth. He's getting a similar

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review in Boyd County. Statewide data indicates that Porter's initial
treatment with no jail time was not uncommon. The twenty
twenty four Domestic Violence Data Report published by the Justice
and Public Safety to Cabinet analyzed how domestic violence charges

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were handled in state courts last year. In the five
county region of northeastern Kentucky that includes Boyd and green Up,
there were more dismissals and assault cases which were one
hundred and fourteen than convictions, which were one hundred and six,
and in forty three cases, assault charges were either diverted

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or amended to avoid an assault conviction. Nobody in the
justice systems wants to do a slipshot job addressing domestic violence,
said Meg Savage, interim chief executive officer of zero V,
a statewide coalition of domestic violence shelters. But individual stories

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don't get the attention they deserve when Kentucky courts are
overburdened by heavy case loads and local jails already or
crammed with more inmates than they can safely hold, Savage said,
it's a really complicated puzzle that has a lot of
different pieces and moving parts to it. Savage said, because

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I know our General Assembly tries to pass laws that
will help to protect survivors of domestic violence, she said,
and I know judges work hard to try to get
to the bottom of cases and make good decisions to
protect survivors of domestic violence, and police officers are out
there making a sending people into the court system. I

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don't know where the disconnect lies other than a lack
of resources, but there's definitely room and much room for
improvements in terms of how serious do we feel about
this problem? And you know how much of our combined
resources do we want to throw at it? And finally,

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on the front page, Kentucky activist Booker bulling a third
Senate run in twenty twenty six. It's beginning to look
a lot like twenty twenty at least in one Kentucky
Democratic primary. Charles Booker is seriously considering a third run
for US Senate in twenty twenty six, according to a

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source familiar with his thinking. Booker has not yet responded
directly to a Herald Leader request for comment on his
twenty twenty six plans. Booker won the nomination in twenty
twenty two, two years after coming from behind to nearly
claim it in twenty twenty against Amy McGrath, who announced
early this month she's running again in twenty twenty six.

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In twenty twenty two, Booker fell to incumbent Republican Senator
Ran Paul by about twenty four percentage points. In both runs,
Booker leaned into a progressive message. He focused on racial
justice and economic inequity, touting the state with his hood
to the Holler slogan, making connections between poor urban centers

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like his native West Louisville and poor rural places like
parts of eastern Kentucky. He almost caught lightning in a
bottle in twenty twenty against McGrath, who had already raised
millions when he got in the race, but fell short
by about three percentage points in the Democratic primary McGrath

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who then fell to Senator Mitch McConnell, whose seat is
open in twenty six that year by about twenty points.
Booker had been leaning Democratic, had been leading Democratic Governor
Basher's Office of Faith Based Initiatives and Community Involvement before
rumblings about his political future grew in the weeks. Since

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he stepped down from that office last month, Booker, a
former state representative from Louisville, has grown more active on
social media and has become a mainstay at democratic and
progressive demonstrations like the massive No King's protests against President
Trump on October eighteenth. The Democratic field for US Senate

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in twenty twenty six is already somewhat crowded, especially for
a position that Democrats have failed to win since nineteen
ninety two. McGrath is running against House Minority floor leader
Pamela Stevenson, the Democrat of Louisville, Logan Forsyth, a Lexington

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attorney and former US Secret Service agent, and Joel Willett,
a Louisville native and former CIA officer. With Booker and
Louisville horse trainer Dale Romans both reportedly eyeing runs, it
could become a six person race. On the GOP side,
three top candidates have emerged Former Attorney General Daniel Cameron,

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sixth Congressional District Representative Andy Barr and Lexington tech entrepreneur
Nate Morris. Michael Ferris and Elizabethtown businessman is also running
as a Republican. Amid the rising chatter of Booker's possible entry,
the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling conducted a survey of

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five hundred and ninety likely voters that peg Booker as
the front runner. The poll was shared with national outlet Salon.
Conducted October seventeenth and eighteenth. Thirty three percent of survey
respondents said they'd vote for Booker if the field was McGrath, Booker, Forsyth,
Stevenson and Willett. Booker's favorability among those voters was fifty

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six percent to McGrath's fifty seven percent. His unfavorable rating
was twelve to her twenty three, the majority of voters
had not heard of Willett, Forsyth or Stevenson, though the
number is higher for Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee
for Attorney General in twenty twenty three. Though many Kentucky,

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many in Kentucky Democratic circles had seen Booker as a
potential candidate for Louisville mayor in twenty twenty six against
current mayor Craig Greenberg, a Democrat who works closely with
Frankfurt Republicans. Booker shot down the rumors in a social
media post. While I will always be a voice of
the people in Louisville and fighting to preserve what makes

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the city great, I know the best way I can
show up does not include running for mayor, Booker wrote
on social media. I know my work isn't done, and
my passion to build coalitions from the hood to the
holler and transform policies in this state and country must
continue for towns and cities like our own to have
a fighting shot. He concluded. One potential roadbock to Booker's

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future could be the large amount of debt his campaign
accrued in twenty twenty two. As of June thirtieth, His
campaign from three years ago was still carrying nearly one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars in debt despite efforts to
continue to fundraise after losing to Paul. His twenty twenty

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two website is still live and taking donations and that
total has not moved an inch as of the last
publicity available report, but things could change with a fresh campaign.
The source close to Booker's thinking told The hair Leader
that if Booker runs, there is a clear path forward

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out of that debt. And now, after a short pause,
I hope you'll rejoin us for a continuation of the
reading of the Lexington hair Leader for today. Thank you
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from the Lexington Herald Leader for this Wednesday, October twenty ninth.
Your reader is Rod Brotherton and as always we will
start this reading with the obituaries. We read only the name,
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Willie Louis He's Gruner Tencher eighty two Lexington, Edwin Pascal
Aliah Junior ninety six Georgetown, Stephen Carl Kwood eighty two

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of Lexington, David Drake eighty five of Lexington, and Vicky
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nine four two two sixty three ninety and we will
try to read them to you over the phone. Now
let's return to the news. The next story is Here
are the items that Kentucky food banks need most as
the SNAP funds expire November first. Even before the federal

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government shut down, now in its fourth week, can Tuckey's
food banks were stretched thin. Rising grocery prices, utility bills,
and other essentials have been dialing up demand for food
assistance programs. Government workers missing paychecks, including military members, or
lining up at food banks across the kent Country. Federal

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funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP benefits, formerly known
as food stamps, is set to run out this week,
leaving some six hundred thousand Kentuckians without assistance. Monday, President
Trump's administration announced federal food aid funds will not be
distributed starting Saturday, November first. We will be in a

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crisis if the federal shut down continues and these people
do not have access to their SNAP benefits come November first.
Law of Brooks, director of marketing and communication for God's
Pantry Food Bank, previously told the Hair Leader from Peanut
Butter Canned Goods some of the most requested food pantry

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items could be setting in your kitchen right now. Here's
a guide to navigate food banks at Fayette County and
across Kentucky, including where you can donate and volunteer. According
to Fayette County Public Schools spokesperson Miranda Scully, your donations
could support families and their students. Several of the district's

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schools have on site food pantries, the largest of which
include Bryan Station and Lafayette High Schools. The most effective
way for the public to help right now is by
donating funds, food, or time directly to our community partners,
such as God's Pantry, Feed Lexington, and various local faith communities.

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We work closely with these organizations to ensure our families
receive essential support and help fill existing gaps as they
regularly supply our school based operations, Scully told a Herald
leader via email. In a community members wishes to support
a specific school directly, they should reach out to the

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Family Resource SLASH Youth Services Center the acronym FROYSC coordinator
serving that campus to coordinate needs and drop off. Scully added.
The district hosts an online directory of those coordinators. God's

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Pantry Food Bank serves fifty counties throughout central and Eastern
Kentucky by partnering with more than five hundred local food
pantries and meal assistance programs, according to its website. Laura Brooks,
the organization's communications director, said God's Pantry is most in

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need of unopened non perishable food items like canned tuna
and chicken, peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, soups, and
shelf stable meals. If anyone needs food assistance, visit Godspantry
dot org slash help to find the nearest food pantry

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or meal program, Brooks wrote The Herald Leader in an email.
The site includes an easy to use map and contact
information for partner food pantries and meal programs across fifty
counties in central and eastern Kentucky. There are multiple ways
to support God's Pantry. Businesses, schools, and churches can host

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food or fund drives. Individuals can help raise awareness about
the organization's mission or make financial donations. Brooks said, every
dollar donated helps provide six meals. Brooks wrote, monetary gifts
allow us to purchase exactly what's needed, often at wholesale prices.

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The location of that is at twenty two oh one
Innovation Drive in Lexington, Zip four five one one. Where
to donate According to the organization's website, Individuals in Fayed
County can donate non perishable food by bringing donations to
a local warehouse or by placing them in blue barrels

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found at any Kroger and other stretches of Kentucky. Individuals
should contact the local pantry. How to volunteer Well In Lexington,
volunteers can help sort donations and pack food boxes at
eight seventeen Winchester Road. There are also opportunities to stock

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pantry shelves, distribute food boxes to seniors, and pack food
for children. Volunteers can send an email to Volunteer Services
at godspantry dot org and register online next. The Christian
Appalachian Project or CAP, is an anti poverty organization. It

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has three food pantries in eastern Kentucky, including in McCrary,
rock Castle, and Jackson Counties. Donations are divided between them.
Libby Wasserbeck, who manages the nonprofits rock Castle and Jackson pantries,
said donations can be dropped off at twenty five twenty
eight Plumbo Drive in Lexington, and it's open between Monday

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and Friday from nine am to four pm. Our greatest
need right now is for canned goods, peanut butter, canned meats,
individual items like mac and cheese, boxed mac and cheese, ramen,
canned beans, flour, pancake mix, pancake syrup, cereals, pasta, pasta, sauce,

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or bread of any kind. Fresh produce is also welcome.
Try to do non glass jars when possible on items,
Wasserback wrote in an email. Waserback added CAP typically doesn't
accept perishable items such as milk and butter, except if
it's coming directly from a grocery store. More questions about

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donations there call eight five nine two six' nine zero
six three. Five God's pantry is part Of Feeding kentucky's
seven member food bank network that spans the. State its
member food banks include the following dare To Care Food.
Bank Dare To care serves thirteen counties Between indiana And,

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kentucky Including, Jefferson, Shelby, Oldham, Spencer, Carrol, trimble And Henry
counties In. Kentucky Feeding America Kentucky's. Heartland based In, elizabethtown
the food bank partners with two hundred and forty two
nonprofits in forty two. Counties it distributes more than eleven

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million pounds of food each. Year Free Store Food, Bank
This cincinnati based food bank preservatives twenty three million meals
annually across twenty counties In, Ohio, kentucky And. Indiana its
service area includes nine counties in Northern. Kentucky Facing Hunger

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Food Bank Facing hunger is based In, Huntington West, virginia
but also serves three Eastern kentucky. Counties Tri State Food
Bank Tri State Food bank is based In, Evansville, indiana
and serves seven counties in The Bluegrass state and, Finally
Purchase Area Development district Food Bank Pads service area Includes, Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman,

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marshall and McCracken counties In Kentucky's Jackson Purchase. Region the
next Story Harden COUNTY gop chair issues apology after sharing
AN ai generated. Video the chair of The Harden County
Republican party has apologized after sharing On facebook a video

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depicting Former President Barack obama and his wife as. Apes
Chair Bobby coleman shared a link to the artificial intelligence
generated video on The Harden County Republican party Of Kentucky's
facebook page On. Saturday the video Depicted obama and For
First Lady Michelle obama is apes dancing to a song

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From Disney's The Lion, king and also depicts several members
of The Democratic party as animals And President trump as a.
Lion the video has since been. Deleted comparing black people
to monkeys has long been used as a racist. Insult
has since deleted the post and issued an, apology saying

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the video was intended to Celebrate President trump's successful policy
achievements by depicting him as a lion king triumphing over Liberal.
DEMOCRATS i apologize for sharing the video and for amplifying
offensive imagery of Former President, Obama coleman wrote On. Facebook
as someone who does not engage with racist, TROPES i

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did not consider the underlying meeting that this video may have.
Had i'm not a, racist and any suggestion to the
contrary does not reflect my values or. Character The Republican
party Of kentucky On saturday issued a statement condemning the
video and said it was opening an. Investigation The Republican
party Of kentucky condemns hate in all. Forms the statement

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said the post is vile and reprehensible and is in
direct adverse to all that we stand for as a
party in. Nation we are actively investigat in the matter
and will take the harshest action available to us against
all those. Involved we remain committed to the values Of
lincoln and advancing liberty and prosperity for Every. American ROBERT. J,

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binvenudi The third Is chairman of The Republican party Of.
Kentucky coleman said the video was deleted From facebook and
an apology was made long before The Republican party Of
kentucky issued their. Statement WHILE i respect their, STANCE i
had already deleted this post and tried to make. Amends coleman,
SAID i believe The Republican party is the vehicle to

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save our country from the far, left AND i look
forward to continuing to support Our republican candidates and Make
america great. Again the next, story A kentucky man is
charged with killing lawmaker's daughter and can face the death.
Penalty the man accused of killing a former state lawmaker's

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daughter during a deadly home invasion In Madison county is
mentally fit to face the death. PENALTY a Judge Ruler,
Monday Shannon, gilday twenty, five faces charges of, murder, assault
three counts of attempted, murder, burglary and criminal mischief for
the twenty two and two home. Invasion he's accused of

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Killing Jordan, morgan a thirty two year old lawyer and
daughter of former state LAWMAKER. C Wesley, morgan while she
was asleep in her. Bed in an order Published october,
Seventeenth Madison Circuit Judge Cole Adams mayer Ruled guildy was
competent to face the death. Penalty guilde's, Attorney Thomas, griffiths

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previously fought to exclude capital punishment as an, option arguing
his client was seriously mentally. Ill guilday's soundness of mind
and whether he could face the death penalty was one
reason the case's progress has. Slowed the ruling comes as
many State republican, officials Including Attorney General Russell, coleman are

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eager For Governor basheer to resume the death penalty In.
Kentucky since nineteen seventy, six just three people have been.
Executed Marco Alan chapman in twenty eight was the most.
Recent mika And, nicole one Of Jordan morgan's, friends Said,
monday the family is glad the case is moving forward

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and with the death penalty as a potential. Punishment we
are so happy that the judge ruled in the family's
favor and The constitution's, favor which says it should be
on the. Table the cole. Said gilday's trial has been
delayed several. Times On, Monday mayor set a new trial

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date Of may, one twenty twenty. Six the most recent
delay In guildea's case was In. January when local prosecutors
recused themselves at the family's, Request special Prosecutors Todd willard
And Barbara whaley from The Kentucky Attorney General's office took
over the. Case griffith said the defense team intended to

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file a motion for a change of venue at a later.
Date is unclear whether that would cause another. Continuance The
february twenty, second twenty twenty two shooting happened After gilday
broke into the multi million dollar home Of Wesley morgan
On Willis Branch road In, richmond shot and killed his,

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daughter and exchanged shots With Wesley. Morgan Wesley morgan was
treated at the hospital for his. Injuries after the, Shooting
gilday drove away and made it To. Florida according to court,
records he put A georgia license plate on his, car
which broke down Near. Atlanta he then abandoned the vehicle

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and traveled back To, kentucky where a sheriff's deputy found
him walking In Madison county six days after the. Shooting
several weeks, Later gilday admitted to the, crime saying he
was attempting to get to a bunker nderneath the house
and was willing to kill everyone. Inside Kentucky State Police
Detective Cameron allen Said gilday had done extensive research on the,

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bunker taking notes about the, home the family's sleep, schedules
and directions from his apartment in Northern. Kentucky status hearing
is scheduled for one thirty Pm january twentieth of twenty twenty,
six and Next Kentucky Attorney General coleman joins brief Backing

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trump's order on birthright. Citizenship Attorney General Russell coleman is
joining fellow conservatives in the fight against birthright, citizenship the
legal concept that affords citizenship to anyone born in The United.
States coleman joined an amicus brief filed By Tennessee Attorney

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General Jonathan Scurmetti, friday which asked THE Us Supreme court
to clarify that citizenship to everyone born in The United
states is not guaranteed by THE Us. Constitution the brief
Supported President trump's executive order ending birthright, citizenship which has
been tied up in the court Case trump Versus. Casa

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the order in question states that a child born in
THE uns is not automatically a citizen if the mother
was unlawfully present in THE us and the father was
not A us citizen or lawful resident at the time
of the. Birth it also excludes from citizenship children born

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of a mother who was in THE us on a
temporary visa and the father was not A us citizen
more than a Cent for more than a, century courts
have interpreted The Fourteenth amendment to confer citizenship on virtually
everyone born On american. Soil all persons born or naturalized

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in The United United states and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof are citizens of The United states and out of
the state wherein they. Reside The Fourteenth, amendment ratified in
eighteen sixty, eight reads but using historical evidence from the
eighteen sixties to the early nineteen. Nineties scurmetti wrote in

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a press relief accompanying the brief that courts have incorrectly
interpreted The. Amendment the idea that citizenship is guaranteed to
everyone born in The United states doesn't square with the
plain language of The Fourteenth amendment or the way many
government officials and legal analysts understood the law when it

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was adopted after The Civil. War scimmittee said if you
look at the law at the, time citizenship attached to
kids whose parents were lawfully in the. Country each child
born in this country is, precious no matter their parents' immigration,
status but not every child is entitled To american. Citizenship

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the brief also argued against birthright citizenship as a policy
constitutionally conferring citizenship on the children of those who enter
the country unlawfully rewards illegal behavior in a matter no
drafter or ratifier of the citizenship clause. Endorsed it. Reads

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this is Not scrimetti's first brief to THE. U S Supreme.
Court his office recently won A Us Supreme court case
Defending tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for, miners a
case that had implications For kentucky's own. BAN a spokesperson
For coleman did not respond to a request for comment

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on the. Case almost All republican attorney generals signed on
To scrimatti's, brief Like coleman. Did only three of the
twenty eight states in THE us WITH gop attorneys, General New, Hampshire,
ohio And virginia did not sign. On the next, Story

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federal Labor union breaks with The democrats on the. Shutdown
the largest union of federal workers called On monday For
congress to pass a spending bill to immediately end the government,
shutdown effectively siding With President trump and The republicans who
have Opposed democratic efforts to restore health care. Spending both

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political parties have made their, point and there still is
no clear end in. Sight Everett, kelly the president of
The American federation Of Government employees set in a, statement he,
added it's time to pass a clean continuing resolution and
in this shutdown, today no half, measures no. Gamesmanship the

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state was a remarkable shift for the. Union before the
shutdown began On october, First kelly called On republicans to
negotiate With democrats who are seeking, concessions including the extension
of subsidies for plans under The Affordable Care act that
would stave off premium increases with the loss of coverage

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for millions Of. Americans the union has also worked closely
With democratic lawmakers on efforts this year to Oppose trump's,
policies particularly his wide ranging campaign to slash the federal
workforce and fire career civil. Servants but amid the punishing

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effects of the shutdown on federal, workers some seven hundred
and thirty thousand are working without, pay and another six
hundred and seventy thousand are furloughed. Entirely Senate democrats have
blocked legislation that would pay the civil servants who have
been working without, pay a move that would provide relief

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to the union's members but would weaken the bargaining position
Of democratic. Lawmakers The, republicans in turn blocked a pair
Of democratic bills that would have paid both those federal
workers who were still working and those who have been.
Furloughed trump seized on those votes to try to drive
a wedge Between democrats and the federal workers', unions asserting

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That democrats don't want the workers to be paid at,
all Though trump himself previously signaled that he might try
to deny some workers back pay after the. Shutdown The
president Invites Senate democrats to cross party lines and vote
for The republican proposal to reopen the. Government all we
need is Five, Democrats trump said in The Oval office last,

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week adding that The republican proposal would get the country
back to work and get the people. Paid in a,
Statement Chuck, Schumer democrat Of New, york The senate minority
leader said That democrats want all federal walkers to get
their full pay to address the health care, crisis and

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we can do. Both but as the shutdown is stretched,
on workers have begun missing, paychecks ramping up the financial
pressure on the union's. Members kelly said they are being
asked to keep our country running without the paychecks that
keep their own households Afloat, congress he, said must put

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every single federal worker back on the job with full pay.
Today in Late, september hours before the shutdown, Began kelly
had pointedly called On republicans to negotiate With democrats on
their demands to fund The Affordable Care act subsidies that
are expected to expire at the end of the year

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and benefits more than twenty Million. Americans increased health insurance
prices for next year have already been made public in
at least a dozen. States in his Statement, Monday kelly
did not directly call On democrats to drop their, demands
but he suggested that those negotiations should continue only After

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congress votes to reopen the, government Which democrats say would
give up one of the few levers they have to
Force republicans to. Negotiate shutdowns have become a recurring tactic In,
Washington kelly, said but there is no winning a government.
Shutdown congressional wrangling over the, budget he, added should be

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conducted without punishing the people who keep our nation. Running and,
next Oh BOY eku football player and his father charged
with assaulting the coach after a. Game and football player
and his father were Arrested october twenty sixth after police

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say they assaulted one of the team's coaches after a.
Game CHARLES. H ingram the, fifth twenty, two and his,
Father Charles, ingram forty, seven were charged with fourth degree,
assault second degree disorderly, conduct and first degree criminal. Mischief
according to The Madison County Detention center Inmate, Search both

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father and son were Arrested sunday and released the same.
Day both of their cases are marked as resolved according
to the inmate. Search Following saturday night's football, Game Rashard,
watson a member of THE eku football coaching, staff was
assaulted by AN eku student athlete and one of their

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family members in the stadium parking. Lot the university and
its athletic departments said in a statement On, Saturday eastern
lost thirty one to seven To Tarlton State. University Eastern
kentucky is one in three in conference play and the
loss was the team second in a. Row Tarlton state remains.

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Undefeated ingram the, fifth a red shirt junior defensive back From, Nashville,
tennessee had one tackle during the homecoming. Game he transferred
To eastern From Furman university this year and has played
in seven, games Including. Saturdays the police broke up the
altercation and after the initial on site, Investigation watson was.

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Released the statement continued the two other individuals were placed under.
ARREST a student athlete is suspended from the football team
and this is an ongoing. Investigation watson has been a
defensive secondary coach At eastern Since february of twenty twenty.
Four he spent two seasons as the defense coordinator At

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Tuskegee university and has also coached At Franklin Pierce university In,
Missouri Southern State, university and has had previous coaching fellowships
with The Pittsburgh steelers and The Kansas City. Chiefs next
pedestrian hit By Fayette county school. BUS a pedestrian was

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hit by A Fayette county school Bus tuesday. Morning according
to The Lexington Police, department the collision happened just before
seven thirty am on Outbound Richmond road near Lake Shore.
Drive Lexington Police Sergeant Ilya chapparov said the bus hit
a pedestrian and the pedestrian was taken to a hospital

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with non life threatening. Injuries there were no students on
the bus at the. Time chapparov said no charges have been.
Filed it was Unclear tuesday morning if the bus was
operational after the. Collision chapparov said officers have cleared the
scene and the road is reopened and, finally cyclists killed

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in a hit and run crash On Georgetown. ROAD A
lexington bicyclist who was killed in a hit and run
crash On saturday has been. Identified according to The Coroner's.
Office Jose Lewis Hernandez, sosa fifty, nine From, lexington was
Killed saturday night and a crash At Georgetown road And
Price road near A New Circle road. Exit police arrived
on the scene shortly after eleven pm and found a

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mail cyclist. Injured the police said he was pronounced dead
at the scene of the crash shortly before midnight due
to his. Injuries according to The coroner's, office the driver
that Hit sosa has not been identified and anyone with
information about the incident is asked to call The Lexington
Police department at eight five nine two five eight thirty
six hundred Are Bluegrass Crime stoppers at eight five nine

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two five three twenty twenty or on the web. Www
bluegrass crimestoppers dot. Com and this concludes the reading of
The Lexington Herald leader for, Today, Wednesday october twenty. Ninth
your reader has Been Rod. Brotherton thank, you as always for,
listening and now please stay tuned for sports news right

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