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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