>> And that he tell him, I want to crush it.

And he says, would you be okay if we just didn't know I want to crush it too.

Kentucky Democrats say they're ready to fight for their party and public education.

>> Now we can see some of the innovative idea is that create opportunities for young people that will KET them out of the cycle of violence.

>> Some nonprofits in the state get a boost to help prevent gun violence.

And it's about pride and it's about building that community spirit with generations.

That's the gold will tell you how a western Kentucky town is striving to meet it.

Would you do any studying of how the people in Texas actually celebrated those first 2 years?

>> They were just he's done that they had been free.

>> And a Juneteenth event honoring Kentucky Civil War soldiers who fought for freedom.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KU Team Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition, we're starting off another week.

It's Monday, June 17th.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Monday night with us.

We're taking Kentucky Edition on the road this week tomorrow will be broadcasting from Hopkinsville in Christian County, but it's not just hop town as they call it.

That will be focusing on will also bring you stories about important issues and people around southwestern Kentucky with that begins today.

Coming up in just a few minutes, we'll introduce you to a town and Todd County that's making locals proud.

And today's news a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's new title 9 rule expanding protections to LGBTQ+ students in Kentucky and his ruling.

The U.S. District judge said the new rule is, quote, arbitrary and the truest sense of the word.

It's another setback for the policy that has come under fire by Republicans, including Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman who asked the court to put the new rule on hold.

In a statement, Coleman said today's ruling, quote, Makes clear that the U.S. Department of Education's attempt to redefine sex to include gender identity is on lawful and beyond the agency's regulatory authority and quote, the Biden administration argued the policy change was needed to expand the definition of sexual harassment in schools and colleges and ad safeguards for victims.

It was set to begin an August.

Today's ruling blocks the policy from going into effect in Kentuckyian 5 surrounding states.

Kentucky.

Democrats met in Louisville this weekend to choose who will represent them at the National Democratic Convention.

But as Kentucky additions do Leffler report, the Democrats have their eyes set on winning races down the ballot come November, including defeating a constitutional amendment.

>> The Democratic State Convention is to elect to 59 delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention and Chicago and August, who will then cast our votes to reelect President Joe Biden and Vice president calling Kamala Harris.

>> At a Democratic Party fund-raiser, former Democratic Governor Steve Beshear slammed Biden's opponent Donald Trump.

>> We do not need a convicted felon as the president of the United States.

I can tell you.

For the very first time the other day I shouted Hallelujah, 34 straight times.

>> Trump to Kentucky in 2 elections.

The current governor Andy Beshear says the former president doesn't decide Kentucky's down ballot races.

>> A custom gather last November.

We beat Donald Trump's handpicked candidate for governor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

>> November Democrats say they'll defeat a constitutional amendment to fund private schools in Kentucky with public dollars.

We are ready for the fight.

We're on the right side of this issue.

We are on the right side of history and I've had several conversations with the governor about this amendment and that KET telling him, I want to crush it.

And he says, would you be okay if we just beat it?

No, I want to crush it too.

Because what we all know about the work that we do, the things that we care about, the values that we have is to build that better.

Kentucky requires us to make sure that every child no matter their zip code have the best opportunity they can have and a brighter future to be able to play a role in that economy that Governor Beshear gets up and works to build every single day.

The future of that economy.

It's in our classrooms today.

>> In the state house where Democrats are greatly outnumbered.

Dozens of seats are up for grabs.

>> I'm grateful for a lot of great House and Senate candidates that are here tonight.

We are going to pick up seats in our state legislature this November.

>> I thought I created a record number of jobs.

Well, guess what, now?

I'm second best.

And you're right.

I am second band.

We did the Medicaid program.

He's now expanded it.

To include vision.

And hearing and dental.

So thousands of more Kentuckians.

Get good health care coverage.

Just think though.

Just think what we could do.

If he had a willing partner in the Legislature.

Think about that.

>> Governor Beshear touts giving Kentucky ends more jobs in health care coverage, but he says he won reelection for speaking on social issues, too, like abortion and LGBTQ rights and diversity, equity and inclusion, all things the Republican supermajority have chipped away at the statehouse for Kentucky edition.

I'm June Leffler.

>> Thank you.

June.

The Kentucky Democratic Party also hopes to elect the first black woman to the state Supreme Court.

Their chores choices, Court of appeals just as Pamela Goodwine.

She's running against a private attorney.

Aaron despite the party endorsement.

This is a nonpartisan race.

State lawmakers want your help examining Jefferson County public Schools and education news.

A resolution establishing a JCPS task force was passed during the last legislative session.

Legislative task forces are usually made up of lawmakers on life.

But this one will consist of lawmakers, representatives from the state auditor's office.

The Louisville mayor's office, a JCPS principal and 4 others who will be selected by the Legislative Research Commission.

The Lrc is looking for to JCPS parents, a teacher and a business member.

Anyone interested in applying will need to commit to attending at least 6 meetings in Frankfort and one that the Kentucky State Fair, the first meeting is scheduled for July 15th.

The future of JCPS was a frequent topic during the last legislative session.

Some lawmakers backed the idea of splitting up the district into smaller ones.

The task force must submit its recommendations by December.

First of this year.

Some Lexington nonprofits trying to put an end to youth gun violence now have more support for their efforts.

Mayor Linda Gorton announced 15 grassroots nonprofits that will receive $100,000 in funding through the one Lexington Gun Violence prevention program.

That announcement came this afternoon.

These organizations are involved in programming that is directly focused.

>> On our young people, including mentoring art, coaching education wellness, counseling, and much, much more.

Now for the 3rd year in a row.

Our government is providing 15 non-profit organizations with funding.

So they can continue to uplift our young people.

>> 2022 was a rough year for our city.

We an all-time high shootings and homicides.

But last year we we saw a stiff beachline.

I'm almost 50% first time in almost 6 years that we saw below 100 shootings.

And then this we've seen that progress continue.

Now, I think we're only a 6 homicides almost halfway through the year.

How are we focus in on the line the root causes of gun violence so that we're not back here.

5, 10, 20 years from now.

And so I say that to say the recipients of this grand are going to look different now that we're not in the crisis that we were in 2 years ago.

And that's a beautiful thing because now we can see some of the innovative idea is that create opportunities for young people that will KET them out of the cycle of violence.

>> It is the 3rd year in a row that the grants have been awarded.

So shifting now to a programming note.

We want you to join us for Kentucky tonight this evening as we discuss the state of the media allow you have a lot to say about that.

I'll be joined by a panel of veteran journalists in Kentuckyian an expert in media law.

So we hope you'll tune in tonight at 8 Eastern 7 Central for Kentucky tonight right here on KET.

The company contracted to demolish a Martin County coal plant is fined for safety violations after an investigation into the deaths of 2 workers, Alvin knees and Billy Joe Daniels died in October after the plant collapsed on them.

The Kentucky education and labor cabinet conducted an investigation into the collapse.

The Kentucky Lantern reports the Cabinet find the contractor schemes enterprises more than $31,000 for multiple safety violations.

That included not having an engineering survey and planned before demolition.

Not bracing corroded load bearing steel columns and not informing means and Daniels of the hazardous conditions involved with the demolition.

The Kentucky Lanterns says it reached out to the company and its representatives for comment but have not heard back.

One of Kentucky's most notorious contemporary outlaws has died and obituary for Johnny Boone says he died Friday.

Boone was the ringleader of the Cornbread Mafia in the 1980's, federal prosecutors describe the group as, quote, the largest domestic marijuana producing organization and the history of the United States.

Boone's roots were in Marion Nelson and Washington counties.

The mystery around him grew in 20 0, 8, when he went on the Ron Innovated.

Federal authorities for 8 years.

The so-called godfather of grass was eventually arrested in Canada and sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison.

The Courier Journal reports he was released from prison early because of an outbreak of COVID-19.

Johnny Boone was 80 years old.

♪ ♪ If you stepped outside at all today, you felt the heat.

Temperatures spiked into the 90's today and the heat looks to be sticking around all week.

>> The city of Lexington issued a phase one heat alert today.

It means several outreach teams will be distributing water and helping people stay safe.

The city is also opening several cooling stations astronomical summer officially begins Friday.

Each year in the United States.

More than 11,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer.

About 4,000 women will die from it.

One of the most common causes of cervical cancer is human papillomavirus or HPV.

HPV can also cause several other forms of cancer experts at the UK Market Cancer Center say the good news is it's preventable.

They recently hosted an HPV Cancer Center consortium aimed at finding ways to increase HPV vaccination rates.

This and tonight's medical news.

>> It could be stands for human papilloma virus and it's a very, very common virus infection that about really a out of 10 people get it sometime in their life.

The reason why it's important to talk about HPV and learn about it is because it can cause 6 types of cancer.

What people don't realize that they think they may have heard about cervical cancer, but their mind about the other ones.

But it really kind of 6, 6 of them in the most common of head and neck cancer that affects men and women.

So it's not just cervical cancer.

Kentucky has among the highest rates of cervical cancer in the country is about 200 women a year in Kentucky that get it.

And we also have among the highest rates of head and neck cancer with about 100 men and women getting head neck cancer each year in Kentuckyian the vast majority of those convicted people be prevented with HPV vaccine that rates of cervical cancer in head and neck.

Cancer and other cancers are highest in rural areas can come in, you know, compared to cities.

And but unfortunately, right now, the HPV vaccination rates are lower in rural areas.

So with a greatest need in rural areas.

But so far, not as much vaccination has been a general area.

So we want to work with our partners and our different role commute across the state and see how we can partner together in that effort.

We really have the tools in our tool box that we need to to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem in this country.

And that doesn't mean 0 several cancer, but it means for the reducing it to a very, very low number.

And the 3 tools that we had or HPV vaccine several cancer screening and follow-up on screening.

And if we can get up to 90% and each of those 90% vaccinated 90% screen than 90% follow-up.

Then we can virtually eliminate cervical cancer.

So doctors routinely recommend the HPV vaccine about ages 11 12, the same time.

The other vaccines are also do.

But parents can vote started early at age 9.

Some parents prefer to spread the vaccines out to maybe get one a year and knocking about same time are some I prefer to get it when they're in there for 11 or 12 year-old check out all 3 vaccines together.

But if you didn't get vaccinated on it they're older teenagers, young adults.

You can catch up if you didn't get the vaccine earlier of 3.26.

In.

But it can get the vaccine.

And then after it went that age between 27 in 45 years old people can talk to your doctor and see if they still need to get the vaccine in that age.

If it would be helpful for them or not.

The screening start to age.

21, all women need to start a 21.

And up to 8.64.

It's it can either be 3 or 5 years opinion which type of screening you do.

So we have the traditional pap tests to that most people know about.

And there's also a HPV test now because since HPV infection causes cervical cancer, they can just has to have an infection.

And that's a kind of a really exciting development because now they've approved that women can do the tests themselves so far to have to in the doctor's office.

But in the future that we hopefully approving it so we can to the test at home as well.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> He and south western Kentucky, a town of about 1400 people is working to preserve its history, attract visitors and locals proud to call their pocket of Kentucky home.

Our Laura Rogers takes us on a trip to the Todd County community of Guthrie for another installment of Monday's on Maine.

>> This mural started in.

>> The rainy month of May, Tennessee muralist Kim Bradford using shades of blue to tell the story of the blaze.

And downtown Guthrie.

Kentucky Guthrie wanted to pay homage to that.

The town had a venue on the Chaplain Circuit giving black musicians a place to play and perform during racial segregation.

So this was inspired, but a small.

Juke joints.

>> Or >> Soul Blues club that existed and was really pop and >> they would come to small towns like ours and play some of the best music.

In my opinion of that era.

>> Tracie Robinson as executive manager of Got 3 Main Street.

I grew up here.

So it has a special place in my heart.

In the early 2, thousands, the need was realized for historical preservation and got 3 and a way to support more retail and restaurants.

>> Vacant buildings.

There are a lot of business is leaving and moving to the edges of bigger cities.

>> They joined the Kentucky Main Street program and came up with a plan where nationally certified 2 Main Street America.

So we use the 4 point approach which is organization promotion, economic vitality.

>> And design.

The mural is the latest project to beautify Guthrie painted at Long Hurst Park, the site of summer concerts that begin later this month.

Public art is an investment in a city and town.

>> It tells them like here important come spend time here.

You're invited.

That's exactly the message.

Small businesses want us in retail.

You want people to get out of their cars.

You want him to walk and you want to see all the things that you have 2 years ago.

Todd County native Andrea Koski moved into the former long Hearst General Store to open a business of her own, naming it long Hearst and Lindell's.

>> After her late grandmother, they just kind of fell into place that this was going to be retail slash cafe.

We've kind expanded our menu, 2 different things as the ice cream, the milkshakes coffees.

We do a lot of bakery, a lot of catering.

Her efforts have paid off recently, Kentucky Main Street awarded McCaskey Entrepreneur of the Year was really honored and shocked and on.

>> We've got 3 is also the birthplace of poet and novelist Robert Penn.

Warren, his childhood home now a museum.

That's a great place, a committee that has preserve that museum for the last couple of decades of then outstanding job.

If you come to get where you need to get the Robert Penn Warren using.

>> A railway town that's home to history and heritage.

The community embracing the past.

Looking ahead to the future.

I would love to see it brought back to life to Woods.

It was 50, 60 years ago.

>> It's about pride and it's about building that community spirit with generations.

>> Where Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you, Laura.

The city's music in the Park concert series begins June.

29th shows are the last Saturday of the month through October.

The 12th.

>> They start at 7 at Long Hurst Park in downtown Guthrie.

♪ Juneteenth also known as Emancipation Day commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States on June 1918, 65 Major General Gordon Granger led soldiers to Galveston, Texas, to deliver the message that the war was over.

The union had one and slavery had ended before that happen.

And slave man were allowed to enlist in the U.S. colored troops to self Emancipate a Juneteenth event over the weekend at an African-American cemetery in Lexington celebrated Kentucky soldiers who fought for their freedom and the freedom of others.

>> Most of the other Juneteenth events are fun hours.

He's always been very dedicated to the man who fought this particular cemetery was organized in 18.

69 by former enslaved people.

And that's 4 years short of the end of the Civil war and the passage of the 13th Amendment.

154 solders.

>> Who have been identified and over a dozen headstones have been dedicated in their honor.

Black soldiers from 20 regiments are interred here, came nose and offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the war soldiers and families who service any Syria's says the term to future for freedom for African Americans in the preservation of United States slavery.

We need legally protected in Kentucky.

>> However, see the revolution were planted in Lincoln things, population and African-Americans themselves do not only for the government policy to seize their own freedom.

Cano says from now to Lucian occurred in 18, 64, we had more man register during the Civil War.

>> Than any other state except for Louisiana on April 18th 18, 64 jail.

Steven Burbridge issue.

General orders number 34.

>> Which authorized the restricted in looking at the list of have in your community, U.S. Army.

The U.S. Army was authorized to little is able body free African-Americans and is leading with the commission of their is labor who are compensated by the federal government.

The U.S. Army organize, recruited and trained.

22 U.S. colored troop residence in Kentucky.

8 of the 20 to organize at Camp knows him the largest U.S. CT recruiting center in the state in the 3rd largest in the country in total 23,703 African-American men, the majority of them enslaved something Nancy painted by joining the Army in Kentucky.

Over 10,000 serving regiment organize that camp will see if you do any studying of how the people in Texas actually celebrated those first 2 years.

>> They were just as stunned that they had been freed and we're told they had to stay where they had been enslaved to work out agreements with their former owners of that work.

But one of the other things they did to celebrate was to find the graves of them and the African American soldiers who had been killed.

Put them in a sacred place, a cemetery.

>> We have to tell that story.

♪ >> African-American cemetery number 2 has a website with profiles of those buried at the cemetery as well as information on a self-guided walking tour of the cemetery.

In sports news, the University of Kentucky baseball team is keeping their record-breaking season alive.

The bad KET hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th on Saturday, giving them a 5 to 4 win over North Carolina State and their first College World Series game in program.

History.

Kentucky has one of the most versatile offenses in the country.

Something sports contributor did great Bill says is no accident.

On Friday, he told us a lot of the credit goes to head coach Nick Midge Medina Lake.

>> I've always said that Senate first about football, but I say about Kentucky baseball.

People couldn't wait to love UK baseball needed a of late Nick Mingione in a staff of given them reason he has to say what's the secret sauce this time around?

with with Nick, I really believe those 2 things.

He learned that a schedule better >> French's Kentucky's RPI is number one of the country's you want to.

It's got to do with the SEC.

But non-conference games are tough.

But Kentucky has been successful.

The other thing is they worked the transfer portal as well as any team in America.

The last 2 years.

And you can just pick and choose like a fantasy team.

But you really got to get obviously, guys, you need positioning.

But guys, you know, that are going to fit that your style fit your ballpark, the future locker room 5th.

That culture.

And they've done a superb lay the last 2 years.

>> The name NGO.

Kentucky is looking to KET their winning streak alive.

They take on Texas Anm and just a few minutes tonight at 7 Eastern.

Good luck guys.

That's not the only baseball story tonight.

Our Toby Gibbs as more news from the diamond and our look at what made the news this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> On June, 17th 17 92 16 days after Kentucky join the union Governor Isaac Shelby, name John Logan is Kentucky's for state Treasurer.

Logan would serve as treasurer until his death in 18.

0, 7, >> The next day, June 18th, the Kentucky General Assembly appointed 2 U.S. senators for Kentucky, John Brown and John Edwards.

Aviator Glenn Curtiss dazzled a crowd of thousands during an air show at Churchill Downs on June 18th, 1910, the first demonstration of an airplane in Kentucky.

Kentuckians mourned the passing of Smiley Pete on June 17, 1957.

Smiley paid showed up in the downtown Lexington area, mostly around Maine and Limestone streets in 1946. and became the unofficial town dog.

Get your U.S..

Senator Jim Bunning threw a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies on June.

21st 1964.

He also pitched a no hitter for the Detroit Tigers in 1958.

The Kentucky General Assembly made the Appalachian Dulcimer the official state musical instrument on June.

21st 2021.

You might think bourbon or a late his Kentucky's official state drink, but it's milk named as the state drink on 6/20/2005.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I will be good for us.

>> Thank you as always.

Toby.

As we mentioned earlier, Kentucky edition is hitting the road.

We'll bring you interviews and stories from southwestern Kentucky and polluting a look at how the city of Hopkinsville is preserving the legacy of one of its most celebrated natives.

>> The late activist and author Bell Hooks.

That's tomorrow night on Kentucky edition at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central.

I sure hope to see you then.

Take good care.

Have a great night.

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