Justin Hicks
Data ReporterJustin is LPM's data reporter.
Email Justin at jhicks@lpm.org.
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Dozens of homes were destroyed in the town of Milton, Kentucky, after a tornado hit Thursday afternoon.
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Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. It’s a time when Muslims participate in increased prayers, daily fasting and community events.
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The first site to supply new homes to survivors of the 2022 floods is almost ready near downtown Whitesburg. It’s the first of seven high ground housing sites designed to house a total of more than 500 families.
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Up-to-date digital maps are instrumental for everything from emergency management to routine property valuation. But the current legislative budget bill doesn’t include funding to continue an ongoing statewide mapping project.
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Before becoming the host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Bob Edwards was a Louisvillian. Those who knew him said he was erudite, but never lost his love for Kentucky and local public radio. He died this weekend at 76.
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Fried, baked, on bread – Louisville-area churches are finding many ways to feed the masses for Lent.
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FEMA is rolling out new benefits and processes for disaster victims in March. Many hope it will simplify a complex system that’s prevented some in eastern Kentucky from getting all the help they may be eligible to receive.
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Kentucky’s Department for Local Government received plenty of criticism on its plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in federal flood recovery, but the agency submitted the plan to the feds with few changes.
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Candidates are set for Kentucky’s 2024 elections, but many races have little or no competition.
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The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is undergoing a long federal permitting process to store electricity from the grid in the form of water.