
Headlines Across Kentucky (1/30/24)
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What does the future hold for some flood-damaged property in Floyd County?
What does the future hold for some flood-damaged property in Floyd County? And a Kentucky minor league baseball team is changing names again. Toby Gibbs has more in tonight's 'Headlines Around Kentucky.'
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Headlines Across Kentucky (1/30/24)
Clip: Season 2 Episode 173 | 3m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
What does the future hold for some flood-damaged property in Floyd County? And a Kentucky minor league baseball team is changing names again. Toby Gibbs has more in tonight's 'Headlines Around Kentucky.'
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Our Toby Gibbs has more in tonight's headlines around Kentucky.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $1 million to acquire properties in Floyd County affected by the 2022 floods.
According to FEMA, the Floyd County Fiscal Court will buy the nine flood prone properties.
The Floyd County Chronicle reports the properties will be demolished and debris will be removed.
The properties will then become a green space.
The Floyd County Chronicle quotes officials as saying the projects will protect the community from future flooding.
Three colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System will receive federal grants to develop high quality career vocational programs.
The Harlan Enterprise reports Big Sandy Community and Technical College will receive $1.8 million.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College will get 1.9 million.
And Hazard Community and Technical College will receive 2.2 million.
The purpose of the Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development Grant program is to strengthen career pathways associated with high skill, high wage and in-demand industry jobs.
Baptist Health will celebrate its centennial this year with 100 days of caring and effort to give back to the communities it serves.
The Sentinel echo reports.
Baptist Health has expanded to nine hospitals and more than 2700 licensed beds since its opening in November 1924.
Every month, each hospital will take part in community projects, which will include health screenings, neighborhood cleanup events and supply and food drives.
Baptist Health has hospitals in Louisville, Paducah, Elizabethtown, Lexington, Richmond, Corbin, Lagrange and Madisonville.
A Broadway actor from the Louisville area is home to perform in Disney's Frozen.
Global Public Media reports that Jack Brewer grew up in Oldham County.
The production runs at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts through February 4th.
Lexington's minor league baseball team has new ownership and will get a new name.
WVXU reports the team's new name.
Mascot and uniforms will be announced at the Red Mile on February 15th.
The team's new owner is Temerity Baseball, which owns two minor league baseball teams in North Carolina.
Original team founder Alan Stine says the new name will be legendary, seeming to reference the team's old name, the Lexington Legends.
The team has recently been called the countdown clocks with headlines around Kentucky.
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Adult Businesses Might Have to Move
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 1m 45s | Adult businesses might have to move if House Bill 402 or Senate Bill 147 become law. (1m 45s)
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 2m 59s | Central Kentucky Job Club teaches people skills that will make hem better job applicants. (2m 59s)
Chamber of Commerce Hosts A.I. Summit
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 3m 23s | Exploring what artificial intelligence, or A.I., means for Kentucky businesses. (3m 23s)
Kentucky Republican Lawmakers Support Texas Governor on Border
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 43s | Republican lawmakers urge Gov. Beshear to support Texas' efforts to secure the border. (43s)
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 3m 9s | There are efforts in the Kentucky General Assembly to help mothers and their babies. (3m 9s)
Paid Family Leave Passes House
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 1m 15s | House Bill 179, expanding access to paid family leave, passed the full House. (1m 15s)
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 4m 6s | We went outside the statehouse to speak with those who've lived behind bars. (4m 6s)
Two Approaches to Increasing Teacher Pay
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Clip: S2 Ep173 | 2m 56s | The Republican budget proposal does increase funding for public education. (2m 56s)
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