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After 6 years, UK settles journalism professor defamation case
Sylvia Freire, Staff Reporter • May 28, 2025
UK President Capilouto shares possible impacts of Trump administration bill
Adah Hufana, Staff Reporter • May 24, 2025
‘It looked like a war zone.’ Laurel County rebuilds after deadly tornado
Sammy Wynn, Assistant News Editor • May 21, 2025
Jelly Roll hugs his guitarist, screaming during his performance, at Railbird Music Festival on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at Red Mile in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Christian Kantosky | Photo Editor
PHOTOS: Railbird Music Festival
Christian Kantosky, Sydney Yonker, and Isabella Sepahban June 2, 2025

Country music artists, including Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey, Riley Green and others, along with rock and soul groups, performed for tens of thousands of people during the Railbird Music Festival, held Saturday, May 31, and Sunday,...

the during the baseball game vs. Evansville on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at Kentucky Proud Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Kentucky 24-3 Photo by Matthew Mueller | Photo Editor
A late rally by West Virginia ends Kentucky baseball’s season in the Clemson Regional
Jonathon Bruner, Sports Editor • June 1, 2025

West Virginia (35-14) scores six runs in the eighth to stun Kentucky baseball (31-26) 13-12 to win the Clemson Regional and end Kentucky's season. West Virginia had the advantage in the matchup as they were 2-0 in the regional and did not...

Attendees pet and feed the sanctuary horses during the walkthrough at the BraveHearts Equine Center on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Paris, Kentucky. Photo by Sydney Novack | Staff
Providing a second chance, horses find their light at BraveHearts
Sylvia Freire, Reporter • April 22, 2025
Shawn Pryor, an author talks during an interview on Thursday, Mar. 13, 2025 at University of Kentucky Bookstore in Lexington, Kentucky. Sydney Yonker | Staff
How Shawn Pryor is inspiring the next generation of authors
Melanie Schouppe, Reporter • April 21, 2025
Bryan Station High School teacher and Unsung Hero award winner Justin Royal discusses his classroom posters during an interview on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in his classroom in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Cara Raiford | Staff
No cape needed: Lexington teacher honored as an Unsung Hero
Abigail Wright, Reporter • April 15, 2025
Film review of ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Sammy Wynn, Reporter • April 21, 2025

A man is straddling the sidewall of a boxing ring. The camera cuts to a box, a box that drops a zombie. It cuts again, this time to another man. He looks left, he looks right and with a worried smile,...