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The goal is to develop two Georgetown graduates each year who meet academic qualifications and earn admission at UK, which will provide financial aid for the two minority students to complete medical school.

UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. said in a release that the initiative "will help our medical school attract qualified applicants from a variety of different backgrounds, including some students who may have not considered a career in medicine as a possibility."

Minorities make up 7 percent of Georgetown's 2,000 students. About 20 percent of students in UK's medical school are minorities.

Georgetown will take the first step by identifying prospective minority students as early as the sixth grade who have potential for a medical career.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407540.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407540.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:04 EDT
She starts the weekend Saturday with a 1:30 p.m. tour of the Maker's Mark Distillery and a community picnic at 3350 Burks Spring Road in Loretto.

All events are open to the public.

Other stops on Clinton's schedule include:

.. 4:15 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Get Out the Vote Rally at Kentucky State University, Bell Gymnasium, 400 East Main Street, Frankfort.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407553.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407553.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:04 EDT
Hazard Mayor Bill Gorman did not agree with the arrests, saying police should have turned the teens over to their parents without charging them, according to statements made during an open city commission meeting.

"I know you are right as far as the law is concerned, but as far as the compassion of this city is concerned, you were wrong," Gorman said to the police chief during the meeting, which three parents attended to complain.

"I disagree with you, mayor," responded police chief Ronnie Bryant. "I think this city wants us to enforce the law with our juveniles. I want to save their lives. I don't want to go to a funeral or to the hospital next time."

The commission meeting, which was held on May 5, was taped and released to the Herald-Leader by the city.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407564.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407564.html Sat, 17 May 2008 06:25 EDT
"It's all about heart and determination," Mackey said at the time. "If you wanna win it, you gotta go get it."

These days, he shoots around during recreation time at the Scott County Detention Center. Mackey faces a felony trafficking charge; police say he carried 1.6 grams of rock cocaine into the high school, hidden in his shoe.

He says he wants to apologize to his family, his teammates, his community. "All the people that was behind me, I let them all down," Mackey said in an interview Thursday at the jail. "It's like they wanted it more for me than I wanted for myself, and that really doesn't matter unless I wanted it for myself."

Mackey said he has always had a supportive family who encouraged him to do well in school. But, reflecting back, he started taking missteps last July.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407568.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407568.html Sat, 17 May 2008 08:45 EDT
McCain called the Illinois senator "reckless" for being willing to hold talks with Iranian leaders over the nation's nuclear capability.

"It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. That's not the world we live in," McCain said. "And until Senator Obama understands that reality, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, the judgment and determination to keep us safe."

Those remarks -- which were last-minute additions to his speech at the NRA's 137th annual meeting at the Kentucky Expo Center -- followed a news conference Obama held in South Dakota in which he jabbed at McCain.

Obama is still locked in a primary race with U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton but he has increasingly looked past her in recent remarks. On Friday, Obama labeled McCain's foreign policy "naive and irresponsible" and linked him to President Bush.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407577.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407577.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:05 EDT
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services plans to reapply for Medicaid certification for the Somerset facility, where 223 people live, but it is not ready to do so, said Vikki Franklin, a spokeswoman for the Cabinet.

"We are finalizing preparations," Franklin said. "We want the facility to be as ready as possible."

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, decertified Oakwood, making it ineligible for Medicaid funding, in September 2005, after an unsupervised resident drowned in a bathtub.

The decision came at a low point for the chronically troubled facility: In 2005 and 2006, Oakwood received 24 Type A citations, the most serious kind, for failing to keep residents safe. Two of the citations involved the death of a resident.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407578.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407578.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:05 EDT
"When we're able to campaign in a place like Iowa for several months, and I can visit and talk to people individually, I do very well. That's harder to do at this stage in the campaign," Obama said in a brief telephone interview with the Herald-Leader Friday. "And once we get past the primary, we'll be able to focus more on those states where we need to make sure people know my track record."

Obama, who trails his Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the state, said he's also been hampered in places like Kentucky by "systematically" dispersed e-mails of misinformation about him, as well as Fox News, which he said has played up "rumors."

But he maintained that he can connect with voters who might still be skeptical or unsure of him with his message of change and "pushing aside the special interests that are dominating Washington."

"Being truthful with the American people about how we're going to solve problems, like high gas prices -- that, I think, is the kind of approach that will appeal in Kentucky like it has everywhere else," he said.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407592.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407592.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:05 EDT
Beshear said Kentucky "would be better served if Sen. Williams worked with us to enact pension reform and adequate funding for education instead of constantly creating unnecessary controversy."

The Democratic governor also said of the legal action of the Republican senator from Burkesville, "It is telling that the legislature is not challenging my actions and that only Sen. Williams feels compelled to do so."

Beshear said he is "confident in our legal position and that the veto of House Bill 79 is effective and in the best interest of the Commonwealth."

Williams claims in the lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court that Beshear's veto was made beyond the constitutionally allowed 10 days after adjournment of this year's General Assembly.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407593.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407593.html Sat, 17 May 2008 06:51 EDT
The Russell School project, which will transform Lexington's oldest historically black school into affordable apartments, Head Start classrooms and a neighborhood service center, received a boost Friday when U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, presented project organizers with a check for $196,000.

Chandler was joined by Mayor Jim Newberry and officials from the Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County and the Community Action Council. Representatives from the Kentucky Housing Corp. and Central Bank also announced donations.

Officials said the project is short about $3 million, but the Urban League and Community Action Council plan to start renovations at the front of the school later this year. The front of the school will be the site of 27 apartments for seniors and people with disabilities.

Organizers have started collecting memorabilia, including an old football helmet, pictures of Russell Elementary School classrooms and a graduation certificate. The memorabilia will be placed in an exhibit.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407601.html http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/407601.html Sat, 17 May 2008 02:05 EDT
Justin Prater was arrested in Knott County on April 7, when he arrived with the child after driving 115 miles from Greenup County to Knott County.

Eight days before that arrest, Prater was ticketed by police in Boyd County for careless driving. He paid a fine.

The case reveals an inequity in the child-protection system, one of the state's leading child advocates says.

Families seeking to regain custody of children are typically subjected to drug screens, and any new charges against them can cause social workers to recommend that visitation be revoked.]]>