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Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating by police shown on video MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in Memphis have released video showing Black motorist Tyre Nichols being beaten by five police officers who held him down and repeatedly struck him with fists, batons and boots. The footage released Friday also shows the Black officers pummeling the 29-year-old…

A large crowd participated in Paris and Bourbon County’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. March which was held Monday, January 16, just a day after the legendary figure in American’s history’s birthday. He would have been 99 years of age. Walkers met at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. and paraded from there…

Trump rings in 2023 facing headwinds in his White House run WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump began 2022 on a high. But the former president is facing a very different reality one year later as he runs again for the White House. He’s mired in criminal investigations that could end with indictments. He’s been blamed…

Large group officially sworn in at Bourbon County Courthouse by Pat Conley/Citizen staff Some sixty elected and appointed officials were sworn into office on New Year’s Eve at the Bourbon County courthouse. It took about 45 minutes Saturday morning to successively process the various officials. Each promised to uphold Kentucky’s constitution and to affirm that…

Kentucky on track to have worst flu season in at least 10 years FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 19, 2022) – Today, Gov. Andy Beshear encouraged Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the flu and reported six new, flu-related pediatric deaths, including three in the past week. This toll already meets the prior record for the highest number…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky is a site for the groundbreaking AHEAD study, the first-ever clinical trial to test the effect of lecanemab (investigational antibody) in people who have no cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but in whom biomarker tests indicate amyloid is present in the brain, known as “preclinical” AD. The AHEAD study is…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map With national rates of influenza, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus rising together, the “dreaded and much anticipated triple-demic is finally here,” epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina writes in her newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist.  RSV is a common virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. And while most people recover in a week or…

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died By KRISTIN M. HALL – AP Entertainment Writer Oct 4, 2022     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out…

Queen visited Bourbon County twice… PAT CONLEY | Citizen Staff Canadian native Dr. Murray West of Paris vividly remembers the first time he ever saw Queen Elizabeth, II of England. “I was six years old, in Vancouver,” he described in an interview last week, only a few days after the passing of the monarch beloved…

By TOM LATEK, | Kentucky Today Sep 20, 2022   FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Giving home-schooled students the chance to earn the same amount of Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) money as is available to students who attend high school, was discussed at a legislative committee meeting on Tuesday. Sen. John Schickel, R-Union, told the…