LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky swimming and diving program will travel to Knoxville, Tenn for the 2025 Southeastern Conference Championship, which is held at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center from Feb. 16-21. Last season, the Wildcat men finished ninth and the women, eleventh. Levi Sandidge took home silver as a junior in the 1650 freestyle, while a handful of other Wildcats cracked the top five, ten, and A finals.  Sandidge looks to lead the men’s team with his SEC Championship experience, having won every medal in the 1650 freestyle race. Sandidge now ranks No. 2 in the SEC in […]

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — University of Kentucky researchers have been awarded a five-year grant, projected to total $7.2 million, from the National Institutes of Health to test overdose prevention strategies for women transitioning from jail back into rural Kentucky communities. The new project is supported by the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of its Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network, a nationwide program that tests strategies to expand effective treatment, recovery and related services for individuals involved in the criminal legal system.  Women involved in the criminal legal system face elevated overdose risk during the vulnerable period of community […]

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TOMAHAWK, Ky. — A Martin County man and woman face drug trafficking charges, after police found a large amount of meth hidden in their truck. A Martin County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling Milo Road, when he saw a truck with a sign blocking the rear window veering over the center line in a curve. The deputy wrote in his report the occupants — Larry Joe Horn Jr., 58, and Brandi Moore, 35, both of Inez — appeared nervous and were shuffling around inside the truck after he pulled them over. Inside the truck, police found about 7 grams of meth […]

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