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Teacher vacancies reported in Kentucky as of start of September

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SUMMARY: Educators in Kentucky are concerned about a troubling statistic: only one school district, Science Hill Independent in Pulaski County, is fully staffed. As of September 1, Kentucky had nearly 900 open teaching positions, with the most significant shortages in elementary education, special subjects like music and PE, and middle school math and science. According to the Department of Education, approximately 133% of teaching positions remained unfilled throughout the last school year. This staffing crisis highlights ongoing challenges facing the state’s educational system.

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State data shows that 13% of vacant positions remained open last year and there are currently 899 vacant positions.

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Evening weather forecast 3/28/2025

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SUMMARY: The weather forecast for March 28, 2025, predicts a warm weekend with gusty winds, temperatures in the 70s and 80s, and a few chances of showers. By Sunday, cloud cover increases, bringing a chance of thunderstorms, with a risk for strong to severe weather, including winds, hail, and tornadoes. A cold front moving through the region could trigger significant storms late Sunday into Monday. Heavy rain, flooding, and severe weather are expected, with a significant weather risk from the Midwest to the East Coast. Temperatures will drop following the front, with more storm chances next week.

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FOX 56 meteorologist Justin Esterly is tracking a severe weather system due to cross into Kentucky bringing flood chances as well as high wind and hail potential throughout western and central Kentucky on Sunday evening into Monday. For the latest weather updates, download the FOX 56 Weather Authority App.

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Update: 4 arrested during drug roundup in Logan County

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www.wnky.com – WNKY Staff – 2025-03-28 15:23:00

SUMMARY: In Russellville, Kentucky, law enforcement officials, including the South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force, arrested multiple individuals during a drug roundup on March 24 and 25. The arrested include Mark Matthews, Marilyn F. Posey, Chasity Browning, and Terry Price, all facing serious drug-related charges. Browning is charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Matthews faces multiple counts of trafficking in cocaine and related offenses. Posey’s charges involve trafficking in cocaine and complicity to trafficking near a school. Price faces charges of trafficking in methamphetamine and being a persistent felony offender.

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Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to restore blocked deportation plan

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kentuckylantern.com – Ariana Figueroa – 2025-03-28 12:50:00

by Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern
March 28, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in an effort to resume the rapid deportations of Venezuelans accused of gang ties under a wartime law that a lower court blocked.

Acting U.S. Solicitor General Sarah Harris argued in a brief to the Supreme Court that a federal judge’s temporary restraining order this month, and an appeals court ruling Wednesday upholding it, wrongly denied President Donald Trump the authority to make decisions about national security operations, including the removal of Venezuelan nationals the administration says are subject to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

“The district court’s orders have rebuffed the President’s judgments as to how to protect the Nation against foreign terrorist organizations and risk debilitating effects for delicate foreign negotiations,” Harris wrote in her request to the court.

The Alien Enemies Act had only been invoked three times, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.

The Trump administration has tried to use it in a novel way, when the nation is not officially at war. The administration designated the Tren de Aragua – a gang that originated in Venezuela – as a foreign terrorist group, and argued that any Venezuelan nationals aged 14 and older with suspected ties to the gang are subject to the proclamation.

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg placed a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s use of the law this month, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the order this week. The administration asked the Supreme Court to lift the order.

“As long as the orders remain in force, the United States is unable to rely on the Proclamation to remove dangerous affiliates with a foreign terrorist organization—even if the United States receives indications that particular (Tren de Aragua) members are about to take destabilizing or infiltrating actions,” Harris said Friday.

Extending restraining order

Boasberg’s temporary restraining order placed on the use of the Alien Enemies Act is set to expire Saturday. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the suit, requested that order be extended for an additional two weeks.

The ACLU also plans to request Boasberg issue a preliminary injunction, which would block the administration from deportations under the act until the lawsuit is complete. A hearing is set for April 8.

Boasberg has rejected the Trump administration’s move to lift his restraining order, on the grounds that those subject to the Alien Enemies Act should have due process to challenge those accusations.

At the D.C. Circuit this week, Department of Justice attorneys for the Trump administration argued that those subject to the proclamation do not need to be notified they are being removed under the Alien Enemies Act. The Trump administration also argued that those who fall under the Alien Enemies Act can bring a challenge of their detention under a habeas corpus claim.

Defied verbal order

The White House quietly implemented the act on March 15 and a verbal restraining order given by Boasberg that day to block it went into effect hours later.

In that order, Boasberg barred the Trump administration from applying the act but three deportation planes landed in El Salvador after the order was issued. The Trump administration has argued that his verbal order was not enforceable.

Boasberg also ordered that anyone subject to the Alien Enemies Act be returned to the U.S., but federal immigration agents took more than 250 men aboard the three flights to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Boasberg has vowed to determine if the Trump administration violated his restraining order in sending the deportation planes to El Salvador, but Attorney General Pam Bondi invoked the “state secrets privilege” to refuse to answer detailed questions about the flights.

Friday’s emergency request is one of several immigration-related appeals the Trump administration has made to the high court, such as the request to lift several nationwide injunctions placed on the president’s executive order that ends the constitutional right of birthright citizenship.

Last updated 2:31 p.m., Mar. 28, 2025

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