Oh, Kentucky

Just tremendous jobs news from Brandenburg ...

Bevin announces Nucor Corp. to build $1.35 billion steel mill in Meade Co.; average full-time position to pay $72k per year https://t.co/vHDaDDVFVY

— K105 Radio (@k105radio) March 28, 2019

Justin Case with WYMT in Hazard ("Dedicated to Eastern Kentucky") heads to JRL Coal in Harlan County's Coalgood community to see how the "Green New Deal" is going over. (I don't believe I had ever heard of Coalgood.)

Hiring in Elkton (for an assistant city clerk at at least $16.39 an hour) and Madisonville (for BestVines viral-video finders).

The state's birth rate among females ages 15 to 19 is about 3.6 percent. Powell County has the state's highest rate, at more than twice that.

Will London get the neonatal intensive care unit?

What happens to the homeless after Louisville gets rid of a giant camp downtown? 

Pike County's got bridge problems.

A part-time worker at a Lexington Taco Bell successfully called on his CPR training from Tates Creek High when he saw a man unresponsive outside the restaurant.

Oh, Kentucky

Rest in peace, Dennis Fradin (1945-2012), who was not from Kentucky and “whose works were lauded for both their meticulous research and accessibility to young readers, and he delved into subjects ranging from natural disasters (Earthquakes: Witness to Disaster) to the American Revolution (Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence, The Boston Tea Party and Let It Begin Here! Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution),” per the Chicago Tribune. 

Kentucky for sale.

The 7-1 Belfry High School Pirates, the three-time defending Class 3A Kentucky High School Athletic Association football champs, host Pike County Central tonight, and it'll be Game 3,001 (or so) for the school's stats guy of 38 years, Bennett West.

Tom T. Hall could come out of retirement and do an album called, "The Eggner's Ferry Bridge." Each song could be about some real or imagined event involving the bridge, and certainly this one, from 1940, would be the subject of one of the tunes.

A study indicates about half of Kentucky's kids have tooth problems.

Hardin County apparently can't get enough of Beef O'Brady's, and the feeling's mutual.

More Kentuckians than ever are registered to vote. More than 100,000 new voters--including 46,328 registering Republican and 44,712 registering Democrat--are now on the rolls.

The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have been fasting and praying for peace Tuesdays through Election Day since the summer.

The state supreme court struck down Lexington's and Louisville's minimum-wage hikes.

Good jobs news from Louisville.

The state's first home for woman veterans is open, in Lexington.

Kentucky State University, Frankfort Independent Schools and a North Carolina foundation are working together to boost STEM participation among African-American boys.

Survey says ..., in Cadiz.

Debt-free, since 2014 in Lyon County.

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— Kentucky New Era (@KentuckyNewEra) October 21, 2016

One and done: Boys' round of 32

It was a very good last night in Lexington, Morehead, Mount Washington, Owensboro, Pineville and Winchester. Celebration and anticipation commence tonight for nine more Kentucky communities.

Today's games:

First Region, at Murray State University--Paducah Tilghman vs. Marshall County

Second Region, at Hopkinsville High School--Christian County vs. Madisonville-North Hopkins

Fourth Region, at Western Kentucky University--Bowling Green vs. Warren Central

Fifth Region, at Green County High School--Bardstown vs. Elizabethtown

Seventh Region, at Bellarmine University in Louisville--Jeffersontown vs. Louisville Eastern

Eighth Region, at Henry County High School--Oldham County vs. Spencer County

12th Region, at Lincoln County High School--Southwestern vs. Wayne County

14th Region, at Memorial Gym in Hazard--Perry County Central vs. Knott County Central

15th Region, at East Kentucky Expo Center in Pikeville--Pikeville Shelby Valley vs. Pikeville

These regional champions await the March 16 start of the Sweet Sixteen at Rupp Arena at the University of Kentucky in Lexington:

Third Region--Daviess County

Sixth Region--Mount Washington Bullitt East

Ninth Region--Edgewood Dixie Heights

10th Region--Winchester George Rogers Clark

11th Region--Lexington Catholic

13th Region--Bell County

16th Region--Rowan County