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Fifteen grassroots nonprofit organizations active in violence prevention are receiving grants from ONE Lexington. Karyn Czar has details.

Kentucky's Senate has voted to ban devices resembling slot machines that have proliferated in the state. The vote caps one of the most bitterpolicy fights of the year. Josh James reports.

Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in Kentucky achieved a breakthrough Tuesday when their bill cleared a Senate committee with support from a key Republican leader after years of running into a roadblock.

Laura Cullen Glasscock from the Kentucky Gazette and WUKY's Alan Lytle discuss the controversy over so-called gray machines and why Kentucky's horse racing industry is lobbying hard to ban them. And speaking of lobbying there are now 700 registered lobby groups operating behind the scenes in this year's session. What is all of that money being spent on?

In this week's edition of CivicLex Chat Richard Young recaps what happened last week regarding the short-term rental issue and previews a very busy Tuesday on tap at City Hall with discussions on Community Corrections, Lexington's paramedicine program and other substance use disorder issues.

The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team extended its national record for most NCAA Tournament appearances to 60 on Sunday, as the Wildcats were selected as the No. 6 seed in the East Region. The Wildcats will play Providence, the region’s No. 11 seed, on Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Cats and the Friars will tip off at 7:10 ET and the game can be seen on CBS.

Ezra Manjon scored 25 point and Vanderbilt jolted No. 23 Kentucky by rallying from a 10-point deficit to beat the Wildcats 80-73 in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

Four of the candidates running in Kentucky's Republican gubernatorial primary staked out positions Tuesday night on medical marijuana legalization and whether the state's anti-abortion laws should be relaxed to allow more exceptions to the near-total ban.

Today is day 21 of the Kentucky Legislative Session and the next two weeks will be make or break time for hundreds of bills. Everything has to be wrapped up by March 30th. Laura Cullen Glasscock, the editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette tells us what we need to look for over the coming days and how the 'politics of the now' may influence the agenda.

WUKY's Josh James spoke with Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton about the ongoing effort to restore power to thousands of Fayette Countians still without electricity following Friday's wind event.