music >> It's not something you see every day.

A former governor's mug shot.

Details ahead on Matt Bevin's arrest and what happened today in court.

>> With the Brent.

>> I got to kiss some babies just a few minutes ago, which is there's no greater joy if you're a grandparent, as both of us are.

>> Doctor Oz visits a barren county health care provider.

[MUSIC] >> I am Big Blue Nation.

That's how I feel.

I am one of them.

I grew up Big Blue Nation.

>> And on the eve of a new college football season, we chat with the Wildcats new head man.

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[MUSIC] >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition for Friday, September 4th.

I'm Marvin Bartlett.

Thanks for joining us.

A judge sends a former Kentucky governor to jail.

Last night, deputies in Bourbon County arrested former Governor Matt Bevin on a contempt of court warrant.

The Courier-Journal reports he was in Paris as an extra in a holiday movie.

Bevin appeared in court today in Louisville before Judge Angela Johnson.

Johnson said Bevin had shown complete disregard for and disrespect for the court, leading her to sentence him to 60 days.

She says the sentence could be shortened based on his behavior in jail.

After 30 days.

All of this related to an ongoing child support case involving Bevin's adopted son, Jonah.

As the case has moved through court, Governor Bevin has had failed to appear or failed to provide documents ordered by the judge.

That's what led to Judge Johnson to issue a warrant in June today, Jonah Bevin's attorney, had this reaction to Bevin's arrest and the former governor's behavior throughout the court process.

>> This is a father whose hidden information from his son, who is left to fend for himself after really traumatic and abusive situations.

And this is, at the end of the day, still tragic for Jonah.

Jonah is still having to deal with his dad.

Would rather be serving 60 days either home incarceration or not, would rather do that than just pay what he should to support a child who needs it.

>> Bevin could appeal the judge's 60 day sentence.

He was returned to jail after today's court hearing.

Attorney General Russell Coleman is suing May day.

Health Coleman says the nonprofit broke state law by advertising mail order abortion pills.

One of the ads was on a banner attached to an airplane flying over the Kentucky State Fair.

He also says May day advertises at gas stations.

Coleman wants a judge to block those ads.

May Day Health's executive director, says abortion pills are safe, effective and FDA approved, and that everyone deserves access to the information.

He also says the ads are protected by the First Amendment.

Lawmakers are considering creating a registry for those convicted of domestic violence in Kentucky, state Representative Kim Holloway plans to introduce legislation to create a registry to provide the public an accessible way to verify information about offenders.

Our Mackenzie Spink tells us more about the bill and the concerns brought up in this week's Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary.

>> Representative Holloway's proposed bill, the first time an offender is convicted of domestic violence, they would appear on the registry for five years.

But their information would only be available to law enforcement after a second offense.

Their conviction information and photograph would be made available to the public.

>> An allegation does not put a person on this registry.

An arrest does not put a person on this registry.

The filing of a protective order does not put a person on this registry.

>> Holloway says.

While many criminal convictions are already public, record, the information is not readily available to the average Kentuckian.

Her goal is to provide a more accessible way to determine if a potential partner is a repeat domestic abuser.

However, she says she is aware of the concerns brought to her by domestic violence survivor advocacy groups.

>> Some advocates worry that a registry could discourage a victim from reporting abuse because they do not want the person they love live with, depend on financially, or share children with to eventually appear on a public registry.

Others are concerned that public identification of an offender could indirectly affect a victim or children through lost employment, lost housing, retaliation or stigma.

There is also a concern that a registry could create a false sense of security.

If someone searches a new partner's name and finds nothing, that certainly does not mean that person has never committed domestic violence.

>> Tennessee is the only state with a domestic violence registry, and it was only created this year, so there isn't any data yet on whether registries like this result in lower reporting numbers.

According to Holloway.

And she says the registry will be designed to protect the identity of families.

>> I'm worried that people's privacy will be invaded, and especially the children whose parents perhaps are going to be on the registry now for the public to see.

>> And as far as as as the children, that was one of my initial thoughts with creating a registry like this.

And I've tried to minimize those effects by not including the location of the offender.

So you wouldn't be able to look in your county like you can a sex offender registry and say, okay, who are all the offenders right here in my neighborhood, a person would have to would have to know that that person was from their county after they found them on the registry somewhere.

But it wouldn't necessarily pinpoint exactly where they're from, which would hopefully help to protect on some level, the anonymity of, of people who didn't ask for this, such as children.

>> Although advocacy groups like zero V have not supported the proposal, Holloway says the reason she started this bill is because domestic abuse survivors reached out to her about creating a registry.

>> The person who hurt you doesn't necessarily look like a dangerous person.

They can be charming.

They can be loving.

They can be someone's friend.

They can be someone's favorite coworker.

And when they enter another relationship, the person on the other side may have no idea what happened before them.

They don't know what they don't know.

>> So a registry will not fix everything or replace enforcement advocates.

Counseling, meaningful consequences.

But it can give another woman something I didn't have, which is a warning.

>> If passed, the proposed bill includes measures to collect data on potential unintended consequences of the registry, including reporting information and overall usage for Kentucky edition.

I'm McKenzie Spink.

>> Representative.

Holloway's proposal would also require online dating services to conduct background checks on users and flag profiles with domestic violence convictions.

Two years ago, Kentucky Edition brought you an exciting development to combat the microplastics that end up in our food and water.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky found a way to use plants such as mint and time to absorb plastic particles that are so small they can't be caught by a filter.

>> So as engineers, we try to apply the solvent to a simple process.

We dump the water mixed with the solvent and then the microplastics will be extracted from the water.

And then we get a much cleaner water kind of with a minimum level of microplastics remained.

There.

And so our data show that we can take out up to 95% of the particles and up to 95% of the polystyrene particles from the water.

>> These researchers want a bioengineering award this year for their work, and Kentucky lawmakers are taking notice.

>> At what point.

>> Of the process would those be applied to remove the plastics?

Would that be at the treatment centers?

Will it become filters that you could put on a faucet?

At what point would would those be applied?

>> I think that would be a great question.

Because there are multiple steps you can stop the microplastics into into the water.

But really, from my thinking at this moment, I think most likely this is somewhere concurrent with wastewater treatment facility where the existing technology may not be that efficient of dealing with those smaller, smaller particles.

And we can end on this technology to be the final safeguard to remove those particles from the water.

And then you can send directly to the next step.

>> Professor, she says he's testing other vegetation to see if it will work the same way.

He says this science will only work with industry buy in and regulation.

A well-known figure in the Trump administration was in south central Kentucky today.

Doctor Mehmet Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid, met with hospital administrators in Glasgow.

Laura Rogers has more from Barron County.

>> About 60 million Americans who live in rural America have a life expectancy that's almost three years shorter than if you're an urban America.

That's just wrong.

Your zip code should not be your destiny, especially when it comes to health.

>> Doctor Oz, administrator of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, visited the TJ Health Pavilion in Glasgow this morning for a roundtable discussion with health care leaders.

>> We are not going to get ahead of the health care costs in America if we don't deal with chronic illness.

>> Doctor Oz was a guest of Congressman Brett Guthrie, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee responsible for health care in the United States.

>> I knew him famous from television when he had his own television show, but he got to know him not just as a great personality, but a wonderful physician.

>> The visit was to discuss the rural health Transformation Program, which is sending $50 billion to states across the country for the next five years, including nearly 213 million to Kentucky.

>> Kentucky is blessed with wonderful medicine.

Some of the top centers in the country are here, but they tend to be in the more urban areas.

>> Doctor Oz says he'd like to see those larger hospitals help smaller clinics that may not have access to the same technology and tools.

>> Hearing and understanding firsthand from people who are practicing medicine here in Kentucky has been immensely valuable to me personally, as a little biopsy of the kinds of challenges that we face.

>> The way R.h T is designed to work.

States first had to apply for the money, explaining how they planned to use it.

>> Tell us.

Brag to us, brainstorm with us about how you can change health care in rural America.

>> Those applications are graded by what Doctor Oz describes as third party experts.

The money then doled out for the requested programs and services.

>> If the money is not used the way it was promised to be used, we will take the money back and give it to other states who are doing what they promised that they would do.

>> Doctor Oz says it's all designed to reimagine rural health care.

He was asked about a statement from Governor Andy Beshear, who said federal guidelines prevent the state from using the funds to protect rural hospitals.

>> The money cannot go to building new hospitals.

We didn't want to build things because we don't think that's where the problem is.

But we can certainly create programs that help struggling hospitals.

>> Doctor Oz went on to explain what some of those programs and measures could look like.

>> You can, for example, support the infrastructure of technology flow in the hospital.

You can support with programs that historically weren't there.

You can help those smaller hospitals adopt clinics around them so they have a better catchment area.

You can do group purchasing together.

So if you're going to buy a machine, buy, have all the hospitals buy that machine and get a better price for them or supplies.

>> We also asked the CMS administrator about preventative medicine.

He indicated obesity is the underlying cause of many prevalent illnesses.

>> These GLP one drugs can help you lose 20% of your weight, and that gets you to a playing weight.

The weight you were when you were much younger, usually, and when you were healthier.

And it turns out your blood pressure and diabetes and all those things get much better.

So we want people to have access to that.

>> He points to Trump R X, which offers discounted prescriptions, including on GLP one medications for Kentucky edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

>> September is National Recovery Month and Kentucky is celebrating people in recovery in a big way.

Stories of hope and perseverance were the focus of Thursday's event at the Capitol in Frankfort.

>> It's our mission, collectively that everyone who interacts with us in our services and our supports has more hope than they did before they met us.

More hope and hope doesn't look like systems or policies.

It looks like people welcoming people.

You've come to the right place.

You're not alone.

Recovery is possible.

>> Any event that brings awareness to substance use disorder and what people go through to have substance use disorder, it's going to help combat the stigma naturally, because people are going to learn about the condition.

They're going to learn about the resources that are available for it.

And all of our community partners can come together, share space, network, build a collaborative effort together.

So I think all that's really important for today, the fact that the state puts on this event and hosted it, our state capitol just shows the dedication together.

>> We're building a commonwealth and a country where we have more resources to fight addiction, and our communities are safer here in Kentucky, we've shown what's possible for a decade.

We've been putting in the work, fighting for the interests that became the feet, that became the miles of progress.

And because of your work, I'll say it again, four straight years of decreases in drug overdose deaths.

Thank God, in 2025, we saw a 22.9% decrease compared to the year before.

Even more people that are with us today.

That means that last year we had the lowest number of overdose deaths recorded in the Commonwealth since 2014.

>> I started using substances at a young age.

I went downhill fast, but I was quickly given options to go to treatment.

Find help at mental health institutions, and I even found myself having some trouble with the law.

I found recovery at 20 years old, so I was only in active addiction for about two and a half years, so I've never had a legal drink.

And my 21st birthday looked quite different than I expected.

But I do consider myself to be one of the lucky ones.

And I say that because I'm no braver or more courageous than my fellows.

But I was simply met with love and compassion on my hardest days.

>> My recovery journey began when I walked into the women's healing place in Louisville, Kentucky in January of 2019.

I was hopeless.

Slowly dying, full of shame, addicted to narcotics, and had given up everything that mattered in life.

I will be forever grateful that recovery gave me a second chance to be the mother that my little girl deserves.

Looking at each of you standing here today, I see something really powerful.

I see a lot of hope.

And if you want to know whether recovery works, don't look at the statistics.

Just look around you.

We are the faces and the voices of recovery.

And today we get to celebrate it.

>> And that celebration continues this weekend.

Voices of Hope, a nonprofit focused on providing services for substance use disorders, is having an event for Recovery Awareness Day in Lexington on Saturday.

[MUSIC] The new college football season begins this week, and for the University of Kentucky, it also brings a new head coach.

Will Stein grew up in Louisville, played football for Trinity High School and the University of Louisville, and was an assistant coach in Texas and Oregon.

Then he got the call to come back home.

A big blue fan at heart, coach Will Stein sits down with Kelsey Starks to kick off a brand new season of Inside Louisville.

>> What was that phone call interaction with your parents?

>> It was emotional.

>> When they knew you were coming home.

>> It was emotional for sure.

Talking to my dad like that was really, really cool and a cool moment that we shared together.

See, my wife, Derby, knew and we knew we were going back, but the first phone call was to my dad, who obviously he played here and we had so many memories growing up, going to Commonwealth Stadium or going to Rupp Arena or going to the Music City Bowl or the Outback Bowl against Penn State.

So it was a really cool moment that we shared.

And yeah, they're very proud.

They're very excited.

They're so much closer to their grandkids now, which has been a big game changer for all of us.

And I feel like it's just, it's made us stronger and better as a family.

Just coming back home.

>> What what's it been like for you to be back in Kentucky and.

State's arguably biggest celebrity right now.

>> It's been great.

It's been great.

Yeah.

You know, you go to places and you're like, oh, they're not going to recognize me.

I'm just a pretty normal looking dude.

Not, not I'm not like too tall, like Coach Pope or anything.

That kind of, you know, go under the radar.

But people definitely notice who I am, which is, which is honestly, it's just an honor.

I'm very humbled that they do.

And again, it just fires me up about how passionate they are about the Wildcats.

But it's been great just to be able to be around some of my buddies from Trinity and that I've played with and just to see their kids now, you know, and I still don't have as much time as I'd like with everybody.

But it is nice knowing that I'm very close.

>> Yeah, it is interesting too.

You've got Coach Brian coaching UofL Trinity guy and you coach UK Trinity guy.

How about that?

>> It's awesome.

Yeah.

Go Shamrocks.

We're we're obviously very proud of our high school.

It really shaped us into who we are today.

And you know he was able to play for Dennis Lampley who was another legendary coach in the state of Kentucky.

And me, Bob Beatty.

And I know Brian obviously played for for Coach Beatty.

And so the Trinity connection is real.

You know, I was able to see those guys a few times over the last couple of months.

And it's not like we're hugging and high fiving, you know, there's still a rivalry.

>> A little bit of a rivalry.

Yeah.

>> And competitors.

But that's I think what Trinity guys are all about.

They're all about winning and being super competitive.

So you know, obviously I have a very big respect for for Coach Brahm, what he's been able to do with all of his stops.

The football IQ that he has and the teams, you know, speak for themselves.

So I'm excited to face off against him late in the season.

>> Yeah.

How how did the city of Louisville or growing up in Louisville shape you as a person and as a coach and as a player?

>> Sure.

Well, I mean, as you know, the city of Louisville is very connected.

Everybody knows everybody.

So and sometimes to a fault, you know, everybody's business.

So I think it just shaped me like just having that sense of community, that sense of connection.

And, and that's our number one DNA trait for our team is connection.

So, you know, I love Lexington.

I love living here.

And Lexington is a, a small town feel, but I love it.

I really love being a part of this community, being so close to the stadium to where my kids and my wife can come over and see me whenever they want.

So I'm fired up to live here and to to again, explore Lexington even more.

>> What is what's the main things you want fans to know about you and your leadership style going into this season?

>> I mean, I think the number one thing or number one sign of a great leader is being a servant leader.

Like putting other people first.

And it's a lonely spot at times.

I think I'm finding that out more and more each day.

We talked about things I'm learning.

That's definitely one and not every decision is liked, but it's not about one person or one single thing in your program.

It's about the good of the whole.

So that's been really important for us and for me is to to be a great leader.

In every decision I make affects everybody.

So I want to put, obviously Kentucky first, first and foremost, put my staff, put my players first and what's best for them.

And then, you know, I'm going to be aggressive and I'm going to be hopefully cutting edge and always have a growth mindset.

Hopefully our team looks better week 12 than it did week one.

And continue to improve every single season.

And find those little pieces of advantage that I can find to make our team better.

>> Do you have an overall?

Kentucky fans have seen a lot of different styles of play over the years.

What do you think that the style is?

>> That's a good question.

It really changes offensively each year.

I mean, the core principles of what we do, I think maintains throughout my entire coaching career.

But I mean, it's like I mentioned, like, I want us to be connected.

I want us to look tough.

I want us to play clean.

The best teams have the least amount of penalties.

They have the most explosive plays.

They get the most first downs.

They stop people from getting explosive plays on defense.

So I think you're going to see an aggressive style of play from both sides of the ball.

Even special teams, which is exciting for fans.

Not necessarily a bend.

Don't break on either side, but just like me, I feel like I'm aggressive and try to be cutting edge.

That's what I want our teams to look like.

And I mentioned some a team that just gets better each week.

That's a that's a sign of a good program.

>> Thank you.

Kelsey the Kentucky Wildcats kick off their season this Saturday against Youngstown State, then watch Kelsey's full conversation with Coach Stein on Inside Louisville Sunday at noon 11 central here on KET.

[MUSIC] For many, a three day weekend is on the way.

Get out and enjoy some of the activities planned across Kentucky.

Our Toby Gibbs looks at what's happening around the Commonwealth.

>> They're playing possum in Harlan County starting tonight with the return of Possum Fest.

It's a two day block party celebrating North America's native marsupial.

Events include old time bluegrass and Americana music, wildlife education and competitions, including a mullet contest, corn shucking, race and playing possum staring contest.

The festival also includes a possum art competition and the crowning of the possum Queen.

You can travel around the world without leaving downtown Louisville this Labor Day weekend at World Fest, highlighting the cultures and international communities represented in Louisville and the surrounding region.

The four day event includes three entertainment stages international food and merchandise vendors, a global village, children's activities and the Parade of Cultures.

A naturalization ceremony for new U.S.

citizens is also part of the weekend.

Monroe County has been slicing into this tradition for more than four decades.

The Monroe County Watermelon Festival returns this Saturday to downtown Tompkinsville for its 47th year.

The festival includes a parade, contests, live music, vendors and food with watermelon taking its traditional place at the center of the event.

Winchester is blazing a trail into Labor Day weekend with the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival.

For more than 40 years, the event has highlighted the area's pioneer history.

The festival includes live entertainment, local talent contests, a five k run and over 130 arts, crafts and food booths.

It takes place this Saturday and Sunday.

The Ohio River is getting some extra sparkle this Labor Day weekend, as the annual Riverfest fireworks display marks its 50th year with an expanded show along the Ohio River.

Plans include fireworks, launch locations and a large scale drone display activities before the show include music, face painting, a bubble station and a stilt walker.

[MUSIC] The show goes on Sunday.

Bowling green is putting the pedal to the metal for a weekend built around horse power.

Holly L s Fest brings L. S powered race cars, street rods, muscle cars, trucks and late model vehicles to Bowling Green.

The two day competition includes drag racing, autocross and drifting.

The rubber hits the road starting next Friday.

There's a little German flavor brewing in northern Kentucky this weekend, as Covington Oktoberfest returns to Goebel Park.

Traditional Oktoberfest food and beverages, live music, local craft vendors and competitions are all part of the three day festival that begins next Friday.

And that's what's happening around the Commonwealth.

[MUSIC] I'm Toby Gibbs.

>> Stick around for Bill Bryant and a panel of Kentucky reporters as they discuss the big news of the week, on comment on Kentucky coming up at 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central here on KET.

Join us all next week at 630 eastern, 530 central for Kentucky Edition, where we inform, connect and inspire.

Subscribe to our Kentucky Edition email newsletters and watch full episodes and clips@ket.org, and you can send us story ideas at Public Affairs at ket.org.

That's it for tonight.

I'm Marvin Bartlett.

Have a great Labor Day weekend.