The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee marks the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Kentucky is reporting that 410,709 residents have tested positive since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The positivity rate currently stands at 4.12% statewide.
Community members, health department officials, healthcare workers and religious leaders took the first lap of a prayer walk around Jasper Memorial Hospital on Saturday morning.
The Islamic State's brutal three-year rule of much of northern and western Iraq, and the grueling campaign against it, left a vast swath of destruction. Reconstruction efforts have stalled amid a years-long financial crisis.
The McCutchanville Fire Department held a drive-thru chili fundraiser on Saturday to remember fallen firefighter Jeremy Tighe, who died nine years ago in a fire truck accident.
The governor went ahead to promise to Kentuckians that no victim of COVID-19 will be forgotten, and pledged to end the war against the virus as early as this year.
