Andy Beshear: Last News

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page

Kentucky has launched a new food safety website where people can report foodborne illnesses, Gov. Andy Beshear said.

The death toll from historic flooding that swamped portions of eastern Kentucky this summer has risen to 43, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday in announcing two additional fatalities. The latest two deaths were caused by "health conditions directly arising from the flooding," the governor said at his weekly news conference.

A family in Hindman, Kentucky has tragically lost four young children while trying to get to safety during a flood.

Kim Kardashian uses her power and influence to help a prisoner who lost their child during the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.The 41-year-old The Kardashians star took to social media to ask the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a temporary release for Eli Torres so he could attend the funeral of his 10-year-old daughter, Eliahana “Ellie” Cruz Torres.Kardashian posted a school photo of Ellie alongside her plea, writing, “Her family are desperately hoping that her father, who is incarcerated for a non violent drug offense, be granted temporary release so that he can attend her funeral.”So far their requests have been denied. I ask the @officialFBOP to grant Eli Torres temporary release so that he can say his last goodbye to his baby girl.

Courier-Journal. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association already requires high school athletes to undergo gender confirmation surgery if they wish to compete on sports teams that don’t match their assigned sex at birth. Chris Hartman, the executive director of the Fairness Campaign in Kentucky, said that requirement would make most, if not all, transgender youth under the age of 18, ineligible to compete, as gender confirmation surgeries are rarely performed on minors, and only then after extensive therapy.The NCAA, the governing body in collegiate athletics, recently adopted new guidelines regarding transgender athletes’ eligibility. Under that policy, each individual sport’s governing body will determine eligibility criteria for competing.

Kentucky once again broke the record for new cases of COVID-19 reported in a week on Sunday when the state recorded 1,449 new cases of the virus, state officials said.  The 1,449 cases also mark the highest number of new cases ever reported on a Sunday, according to a statement from the office of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.

That wasn’t a typo: Tupac Shakur is alive and well in Kentucky, aside from the fact that it took forever to get his unemployment check from the government.

Tupac Shakur has signed on to receive benefits in the US — but all is not as it seems.