Kentucky settles a lawsuit with a major maker of eyeglasses, and future medical students are applying for medical residencies in Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs has details on those stories and more in our Tuesday look at headlines around Kentucky.

Glasses retailer Warby Parker has agreed to a settlement with Kentucky after the business allowed residents to take online vision tests, which is illegal.

The Paducah Sun reports that Attorney General Russell Coleman's office says Warby Parker agreed to pay more than $55,000.

Coleman's office alleges 69 Kentuckians took Warby Parker's online vision test from July of 2021 to October of 2021.

If the business violates state law again within the next five years.

That penalty will increase to $138,000.

A study found that fewer medical students are applying for Kentucky programs, WKYC says.

According to the Association of American Medical Schools Research and Action Institute.

US medical students are less likely to apply for residencies in states with abortion bans.

Kentucky's near-total abortion ban only allows exceptions if the mother is an imminent risk of death or permanent injury.

Dr. Rachel Grover with the institute found that 15% fewer U.S. medical students applied to residency programs in Kentucky during the last academic year compared to the 2022 23 school year.

More than $1.6 billion in state support has been approved to train and developed nearly 5000 workers across 25 companies.

The State Journal reports the Bluegrass State skills cause grant in aid and skills training.

Investment credit programs are making this possible.

This month's approvals included training for more than 770 employees at Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort and 393 trainees for Franklin Precision Industry in Franklin.

So far, Governor Andy Beshear has now announced more than $19 million in funding through BSE, across 127 projects to train about 43,000 people for fiscal year 2024.

Hundreds in Kentucky donated more meat to food banks in 2023 than in previous years.

WQ reports that Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry works with meat processors to facilitate the processing, packaging and delivery of ground venison meat.

Kentucky hunters donated more than 3000 legally harvested deer to the program last fall, yielding nearly £117,000 of venison.

That's 467,000 servings of meat.

Brian Clark with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says this gives hunters the opportunity to give back with headlines around Kentucky.

I'm Toby Gibbs.