Casey Parker-Bell.

#### Kentucky's COVID positivity rate remains above nine percent.

There were almost 200 deaths the last three days.

Case numbers are at a nine-week high.

The governor says the state does NOT have a confirmed case of the omicron variant, but he suspects it is already here.

He says it's unclear how contagious it is, and how it responds to the vaccine.

#### Medina Spirit, winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, died this morning in California.

ESPN says the horse collapsed and died after a workout at Santa Anita.

Trainer Bob Baffert says Medina Spirit died of a heart attack.

#### Senator Rand Paul says he will vote against raising the debt ceiling before the government runs out of money, later this month.

According to the Courier Journal, Paul says he objects to spending trillions of dollars we don't have.

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