Former Hardin County teacher to serve 15 years on child porn charges Share Updated: 12:07 PM EST Feb 2, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 12:07 PM EST Feb 2, 2021 WLKY Digital Team A former Kentucky middle school teacher convicted of child pornography charges has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.Robert Alan Thompson, 34, of Hodgenville, Kentucky, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David J. Hale on Thursday in Louisville. Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Bennett said in a news release that Thompson reached a plea deal with prosecutors.Thompson was fired from his job at a Hardin County middle school in April. He had also taught eighth grade in Franklin County.Investigators found that Thompson initiated a conversation with one of his former eighth grade students in which he spoke of sexual subjects and asked and received explicit images of the student, The U.S. Attorney’s office said. Federal officials said he was in posses
Friedlander and interpreter Virginia Moore announced the new hospital payment program. Hospitals agree to follow higher quality standards to get more money from Medicaid, which covers 1/3 of state s population
By Melissa Patrick
Kentucky Health News Jan 25, 2021
Friedlander and interpreter Virginia Moore announced the new hospital payment program.
With up to 28 rural Kentucky hospitals vulnerable to closure if their finance don t improve, Tuesday s announcement of a new payment model to increase the amount Kentucky s hospitals are paid for Medicaid patients is cause for their celebration. Improved reimbursement for Kentucky s hospitals is vital for their survival. Medicaid . . . does not cover the full cost of caring for the patients we serve, Nancy Galvagni, president of theÂ
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This print, Hon. William Goebel, Our Martyred Governor, was given to the Taylor Regional Archive Center by local historian Steven Wright, of Hodgenville.
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Shown is a sketch of the Goebel assassination in Harper’s Weekly, 1900. In the waning days of the 19th century, Kentucky’s gubernatorial race between Republican William Taylor of Butler County and Democrat William Goebel of Covington was unbelievably bitter. Taylor was the current Attorney General of Kentucky, elected in 1895 along with the Commonwealth’s first Republican governor, William Bradley. Goebel made his foray into politics with a successful bid for state senate in 1887, and immediately made a name for himself by taking aim at the powerful L&N Railroad. During his senate career, Goebel defeated efforts to abolish Kentucky’s Railroad Commission, drastically increased the tax valuation on the property owned by the L&N and exposed unethical tactics used by their lobbyists. In
As the clouds parted at Biden s inauguration, the sun set on Donald Trump s presidency
Dan Zak, The Washington Post
Jan. 20, 2021
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1of5Marine One, carrying President Donald Trump, flies over Washington near the Capitol.Washington Post photo by Matt McClainShow MoreShow Less
2of5President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk to board Air Force One inn Suitland, Md., on Jan. 21, 2021.Photo by Will Newton for The Washington PostShow MoreShow Less
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4of5On the eve of his inauguration, President Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden visited the covid-19 memorial at the reflecting pool.Washington Post photo by Demetrius FreemanShow MoreShow Less