♪ >> A jury says Donald Trump is guilty of 34 felonies.

The Kentucky reaction ahead.

>> We're fighting our tails off here to ensure that the 150 plus-year relationship we have with Kentucky at Central Central Kentucky.

Lexington continues.

>> Big changes are on the way for one of the state's largest newspapers.

And how many tornadoes was it last Sunday, the newest numbers from the National Weather Service.

>> If you don't, you don't use it, you lose it.

>> Why it's important for older Kentuckians to KET on the go.

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♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Friday.

You made it to Friday.

May the 31st.

I'm Christie that in filling in for Renee Shaw.

Thank you for joining us.

>> We brought you the breaking news last night.

A jury in New York found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts related to paying hush money to a porn star.

The verdicts had to be unanimous.

A judge has scheduled Trump sentencing for July.

11th just a few days before the beginning of the Republican National Committee for the party's expected to nominate Trump, the punishment could range from probation to prison thus the first time in history that a former president has been found guilty of a felony.

Kentucky Republicans are blasting the jury's decision.

Some members of Kentucky's congressional delegation called the verdict a sham and claim it was a rigged trial and that the justice system has been, quote, weaponized.

Senator Rand Paul calls it a sad day for America and says the verdict will tragically undermine Americans confidence in impartial justice.

Congressman Andy Barr of the 6 district called the prosecutor corrupt and said his tactics were outrageous and unconstitutional.

Kentucky additions Clayton Dalton has more reaction.

>> U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader has been critical of Trump at times in the past, but he posted this yesterday, quote, these charges never should have been brought in the first place.

I expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal, unquote.

Congressman James Comer of the first district is chair of the House Oversight Committee.

Here's what he had to say.

Quote, Today is a sad day for all Americans.

This verdict in New York is another example of Democrats being relentless in their pursuit to weaponize the courts abuse America's judicial system and Target President Joe Biden's political opposition, unquote.

Congressman Thomas Massie of the 4th district was part of an unsuccessful effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just a few weeks ago he criticized Johnson as he criticized the verdict.

Massie said, quote, today's conviction was a weaponization of the judicial system.

But there's more to come.

Alvin Bragg is funded by the state of New York.

But Jack Smith is funded by the U.S. Congress lead in the House by Mike Johnson who refuses to defund the next champ conviction of Trump unquote.

Massie was referring to Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor in the New York case against Trump and Jack Smith, the special counsel investigating Trump for federal crimes.

This is from Brett Guthrie, the Republican congressman for the second congressional district.

Quote, This was a baseless trial brought by a partisan hack prosecutor solely to stop President Trump from regaining the White House.

This kangaroo court is an insult to the American justice system and to the very foundation of our constitutional democracy.

This is an outlandish abuse of our criminal justice system, unquote.

This from the Republican Party of Kentucky.

Quote, Today is a shameful day in American history that should send chills down the spines of anyone who respects to a fair and impartial judicial system.

However, the outcome of this case should surprise no one.

The case against President Trump has been twisted and manufactured to meet the political agenda.

The Biden administration, including its strategic placement and one of the most liberal legal venues in the country, unquote.

Congressman Morgan Mcgarvie of the 3rd district in Louisville is the only Democrat in Kentucky's congressional delegation.

He has a different take on yesterday's verdict.

He posted this on X, quote, a New York jury has spoken.

Donald Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a felony.

34 to be exact in America.

No one is above the law.

Donald Trump is now a convicted felon.

He is also the presumptive Republican nominee for president and he is unfit to serve in any public office, especially president of the United States, unquote.

For Kentucky edition.

I'm Clayton Dalton.

>> The Lexington Herald leader is scaling back in an article published today, executive editor Richard Greene announced the paper will only be printed 3 days a week and those papers will be delivered by mail.

The changes begin August.

The 5th newspaper sales have been declining for years and a study by Northwestern University found that by the end of this year, more than 3,000 newspapers will have closed over the past 2 decades.

That also means more than 40,000 journalists, jobs lost.

Green says the Herald-Leader isn't going away but adds it's important to KET up with the changing trends.

>> It's not a secret that we've seen a decline in our print readership, Dolly the Herald leader, but newspapers literally around the country about the world.

In many cases driven by a lot of different factors.

One of them is the fact that readers spend more time was ordering their news and spending time with the mini computer that best Cure AIDS is a smart phone that they have in their back pocket or purse of their wallet or right from him every day.

That's where they're getting a bulk of their news.

I think never before has Lexington in the commonwealth, the country.

>> Needed smart, essential rebel Tory Journal as we need that cuts, the coal, which will content in our lives.

And, you know, we're dedicated to the pursuit.

A fair and fearless journalist.

The Herald-Leader newsroom in Kentucky dot com.

We're going to continue that.

There are stories that we tell.

There are important projects that we've investigated and delivered to readers.

>> That have righted wrongs and change the laws and and to me, one of the most important causes we have us to protect.

Those are the most vulnerable.

I'm not being political and anything that I say.

But no, this is a very, incredibly important part of the fact of America.

The roll newspapers, the road journalists, the world media sites.

Now more than ever, we have to stand up and defend protect taxpayers.

Do the right thing for constituents and would be a bright spotlight at a time when we're so much of this case and that we see from elected officials and bureaucrats, public employees and public agencies.

>> Not just locally in our backyard.

Certainly we've seen that.

But at the state level, certainly at the federal level as well.

Now more than ever, local girls really matters.

We're fighting our tails off here.

Ensure that the 150 plus-year relationship we have with Kentucky at Central Central Kentucky.

Lexington that quite a part of this movie is about.

>> What the response into what readers habits are.

We also got to be completely recognizing him and strategically embrace what's unfolding in terms of challenges in front of us.

And that's what I wanted to.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> The Louisville police officer who arrested golfer Scottie Scheffler says he has no ill will but isn't happy with remarks by Scheffler's attorney prosecutors drop charges against Scheffler yesterday.

Police arrested Scheffler May 17th as he drove near a fatal crash scene.

Police said Scheffler disobeyed the officers traffic directions.

Detective Bryan Gillis disputes attorneys Steve Rowe mines statement that Scheffler had been, quote, falsely arrested.

Vines also said Gilles hasn't been dragged by a hadn't been dragged by Scheffler's car.

Gillis responded by saying to be clear, I was dragged by the car.

I went to the ground and I receive visible injuries to my knees and wrist.

I'm going to recover from it and it will be OK. Kentucky has 8,000 new doses of naloxone, an opioid opioid overdose tracked thanks to a settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals last October, 7 agreed to pick Kentucky more than 71 million dollars over 13 years after Kentucky accused the company of fueling the drug crisis, but its marketing and promotional campaigns.

In addition to the money to have a promised to.

Yep, Kentucky.

23,000 doses of naloxone.

The first 8,000 just arrived and were sent to 5 distribution centers in Kentucky.

Some lawmakers are returning to Frankfort next week.

The 2024 interim session begins Tuesday.

It's a chance for lawmakers to have in-depth discussions about policy matters ahead of the next legislative session.

Interim joint committees on Education, Transportation, Judiciary and others are scheduled to meet next week.

The 30 day 2025 General Assembly is set to begin January 7th.

The National Weather Service says 13 tornadoes touched down in Kentucky over Memorial Day weekend.

They were confirmed in the 16 counties you see there on the map.

Most were EF one tornadoes, a stronger eof.

2 tornado was confirmed to have touched down in Trigg County and then went into Christian County and even stronger.

The EF 3 tornado started in Lyon County and was on the ground for 35 miles into Caldwell and Hawkins counties that tornado had estimated peak winds of 160 miles per hour.

The severe weather led to 5 deaths across the state.

This year, KET has launched its special new initiative, focused on the issues facing Kentucky's aging population and their loved ones.

We're introducing several programs focused on addressing a variety of aging related topics.

I recently spoke with professor at NYU's ecology about ways in which we can KET physically and mentally sharp.

That story is part of a larger program.

We'll see next week.

Take a look.

>> The closest thing we have.

2 of the lecture or found of youth is exercise.

There's just no question about it.

>> Ryan Stanford is a professor of kinesiology and integrated physiology at Hanover College.

He says when it comes to optimizing your health is a senior.

You've got to move it or lose it.

>> The less you move, the more your body looks at that muscle mass and says we don't need that.

It's not doing hardly anything.

So why bother?

Let's dismantle it.

And this let's get rid of it.

And so once you get rid of the muscle mass, you just KET getting progressively weaker and weaker.

>> According to the CDC, exercise can reduce the risk of dementia, stroke and heart disease.

It can also improve balance bone strength and help older adults live independently longer.

Stanford says the top 3 exercises for seniors might be easier than you think.

>> And so I always like to KET things.

Remarkably simple.

Walk.

Climb stairs.

Carrie, things around that.

>> The first exercise walking benefits more than just the body.

>> It's going to KET your brain alive and active in such a way that you don't deteriorate.

>> It serves as a physical and mental exercise.

>> When you're walking, you are engaging your brain in terms of the connections in the brain to think what's wrong with Alzheimer's, you lose the connections.

The brain no longer can communicate in all the ways that has to communicate to get simple things done.

Walking covers all of it because you have both sides of the body in very intricate ways happened to communicate in hundreds of ways instantaneously back and forth back and forth back and forth.

>> The second exercise is climbing stairs.

>> If you do climb stairs, the day will come when you can climb stairs.

>> This is only suggested for those who currently climb stairs safely.

>> Hold the railing on the stairs.

The climb the stairs, Senegal and the climb the stairs up and down 10 times a day.

Then add to it 10 to 15 times 20 times and they don't have to be on the one's.

KET a little marker.

How do they climb stairs?

20 times a day if you did that, if you did that, you would be retaining a lot of restraint.

>> The 3rd exercises carrying things get a box.

>> And and put ex-member books on that.

That's comfortable to you.

Put it somewhere.

Typical like in the corner that table.

Every time I pass to lift the box up, take it where I'm going to put it down.

And it weighs 10 pounds.

Whatever, 15 pounds.

And as you get stronger and more books to it.

>> And when the going gets tough.

>> When something becomes challenging, that should be a heads up.

Call to you to do more of it.

Not less of it.

Doctor roads, let me ask you.

>> So when you're seeing the patients and we're talking about maintaining that health, how important is the physical therapy side of it?

And the prescription of exercise that we just heard.

Doctor Stanford >> I think I think he's right.

I think it's If you don't, you don't use it.

You lose it.

I think moving is important doing it safely.

I think physical therapy is there to help maybe set up.

Some guidelines are some guardrails around what say for you as an individual versus what may be safe for the next person.

So we like to incorporate physical therapy into strength, training into helping us build up the proper exercise regimen for patient into fall assessments and risk falling risk in the home.

They'll go into the home and actually look to see.

Are you at risk for fall?

Do you have rugs?

Yes, small pet.

If things that could cause a trip you up that you're not necessarily thinking about.

But I think there's a cult therapy is a very strong partner and making sure that we stay healthy and active.

>> I want to welcome doctor Henri Tap with the Kentucky Safehome correlation.

Doctor tap, tell us about your agency and what steps can and should we take to make our homes safer?

>> Thank you for having me.

There are many things we can do.

Any of them are inexpensive for free.

First, I would suggest that we pay attention and take action by this.

I mean, for example, if one is on medication in the feel like they are off balance war, having problems that may impede their mobile to consult their physician.

And find out what's going on inside the home itself.

There's many things we can do like clear walkways.

Make sure there's an this everything's on the floor.

Live courts, for example, wind those up, put them off to the side, put the land next to once bed in the bathroom.

One could do things such as make sure the floor is dry.

Seems to rest to the house in the bath tub have little strips in a skid in the slips trips.

And have hand holds as well.

So they do not fall.

Something else that one can do throughout the House.

Is if you have steers what?

What on the stairs?

Many people like Putin planners are little boxes.

Stared planners on those steps.

Not a good idea of Florence having problems with polling or think they're falling.

In addition in the kitchen, make sure everything is cleaned up and what what one is doing, for example, it's Super Bowl evening.

We're in the rush to get to the chair.

What's the ball game?

Got the basket bucket of dirty needles.

Popcorn.

We got a so do the one mode under rushing in there.

And we put it down.

We Mister Chair.

So we need to pay attention.

Slow down what we're doing.

Pence or another issue to have a pet and you have many toys are scattered throughout the House pits tonight, clean up after themselves, dogs, cats and so and make sure those are taking care of.

And outside the House, make sure everything is basically taking care of debris is all for this step place and just slow Think about where you're at in one pip.

I would give is have a family member or a neighbor come by.

And do a self-check look Iran to what one may head.

Yes.

>> You can see more of this discussion next week.

Be sure to catch healthy aging Akt forum Monday night at 8 Eastern 7 Central right here on K T. ♪ >> The Family Care Center in Lexington that serves low income families.

Receive a $75,000 grant from PNC Foundation.

>> To build a nature based playground, PNC officials says the project is among the first of its kind in the community.

>> The Family Care Center serves a low income population.

Most of our children live in apartment complexes, something it could have playgrounds.

The majority of the children that we serve have not been exposed to a nature based playground and learning environment.

Parents are working and often do not have time to take their child to a local park.

That's about to change for the children here at the Family Care Center.

>> Helping prepare young children for success in school and life accomplishes several objectives that create economic impacts both now and in the future.

A $75,000 grant from the PNC Foundation through PNC Grow Up, Great to help fund the development of an outdoor play and learning environment here at the Family Care Center, actually where you're seeing right?

And our new nature base playground, they will have the opportunity to enhance our daily learning activities with every day objects in nature.

We're thinking of Lockridge is climbers titles, Locke balance beam and tree Steppers study show that when natural elements are incorporated into a playground when the time a child place is more than double to have a playground of this magnitude.

>> Will be a really huge deal, not just to the children but to the teachers as well.

Because this will give them the opportunity for a lot of teaching moments about nature.

So here's the Family Care Center.

We have 4 different programs.

We have a parent education program, which is our high school program.

So there are teen moms can finish her high school credits.

We also have the hands program which is open to new families who have children, ages 0 to 2.

We also have a family Service Coordination program, which is a program that with families for children, ages 0 to 5, that they can go through.

And we also have an early childhood education program for ages 0 to 5.

What makes the family Care Center unique is our parent education program.

We are the only alternative program in Fayette County that offers this program for teen moms and are pregnant moms the way that this works is that a school bus will actually pick up the mom and their baby and bring them to school in the morning.

We've had a lot of parents say that we'll be bringing their children here.

Just makes it easier for them.

They're able to go to work and know that their children are taken care of, that they're safe and that they are going to learn something while they're here.

The construction of the park will happen in 2 phases.

The first phase is expected to be finished in the fall and the second phase.

>> Next summer.

♪ >> Some are bringing isn't always a break.

For many teachers, many have to receive professional development training that's required to continue teaching the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education held a unique training in midway this week.

The outdoor learning some gave teachers the skills and the confidence to think outside the classroom.

>> This is a day where we bring together teachers from a particular area and just try to give them an opportunity to get some experience outdoors, gain some resources that they can take back to their classroom and then use with their students.

>> Oftentimes are kind of stuck in trying to our classrooms and we make our own movement breaks inside the classroom, but they and the opportunity that we can exit supermodels students, they don't go into recess anymore.

So it's great to just have the opportunity, even if it's going outside to just sit on the sidewalk, if they still have that fresh air and have that the great going there and and they also get Arnold about like hands-on perspective.

We are able to get the job citing have forced their way to.

Sometimes that's not the one of the highlights.

Sessions is called.

Take it outside.

>> Outdoor classroom or just outdoor learning management for for what it looks like to, you know, control your students to monitor their behavior, to make sure you're putting yourself in a position where they can always say when you get And that also helps the teachers feel more comfortable with taking the now when they they have those routine set and they know what they're doing and have the skills that they need to take their statements outside.

One of our news programs is called the Kentucky Green Schools Program.

There's these themed investigation says students really lead the way and looking at what's in their school and how they can conserve more say than and it's really a benefit to the school because they're going to thin work together as a team to develop an action project to the vet to address some of those issues that they discover through their investigation.

Science in general, I think awesome.

A subject area because you can go out and really connect with what you're learning about.

And so obviously outside in nature plays a little bit from that.

And next year upcoming, we have this really big opportunity to and 4 per 8 more project based learning more community-based into our daily curriculum.

So it just comes a really good time engaging form of education is always going to.

>> positive for the kids.

I think that the teachers are gaining insight and reminders.

I'm about it's okay to not use the technology.

It's OK to build projects that are.

And I'm betting both the best of both worlds.

It's okay to allows students to the outside and that that is just as important as the learning that's happening within the classroom walls.

When you look at the research that >> the mental health benefits of just being outdoors, whether you're actually learning something or not.

But just being there is is huge.

It's it's the most magical thing to watch your kids when they start to just breathe in that fresh air, you can have a kid who was super fidgety inside and take them outside and just watch them calm down and like connect where they are.

>> This is the 7th outdoor learning symposium in Kentucky.

It changes counties every year.

And the goal is to bring the program to Eastern Kentucky next year.

♪ >> Enjoy good food, good music and a taste of the Renaissance begins explains in this.

Look at what's up.

>> Around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> The first event and the downtown Frankfort summer concert series is already underway.

Check out regional bands and enjoy some downtown shopping at the night market.

This event runs until 09:30PM, tonight.

So there's plenty of time to get in on the fun this evening.

Plus, this event kicks off the Kentucky History Day Festival this weekend.

Be sure to check it out.

The farmers market season.

Owsley County is kicking off tomorrow morning for your shopping bag with fresh produce.

Baked goods.

Organic tea and more.

There will also be great food vendors there so you can get in a delicious breakfast while you enjoy the market.

Be sure to be in Louisville this summer for their great farmers market.

Hear Ye.

Hear Ye.

The 19th Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival begins this weekend in Eminence, John, your finest apparel and joined King Robert, the Bruce and Queen Elizabeth de Burgh for their royal wedding.

They're great events all weekend, including forge and glass work.

Demonstrations sort swallowing, downstate and more.

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and museum has a great show tomorrow evening.

The Cody Norris Show is bringing traditional American folk music to Owensboro.

>> Clad in colorful suits covered and tassels and rhinestones.

This group truly does put on a show it ran, do operate and vaudeville.

Matt, the result would be the coating or a show you don't want to Center college in Danville.

This has been an adventure that will blow your socks off the Great American Brass Band Festival started yesterday and he's running through tomorrow.

Catch the parade, the main stage performances and a Great American picnic that will close out the festival tomorrow afternoon.

>> Get your brass over there.

And that's what's happening around the commonwealth will begin.

>> Well, join us for Kentucky Edition Monday as the incoming education commissioner and other school leaders head to Bourbon County to talk about literacy and Jefferson County has a plan to make sure students stay well fed over the summer.

We'll tell you all about it Monday on Kentucky Edition.

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