Morehead, Ky (By: Alex Crown) – Rowan County clerk Kim Davis has been summoned to the hearing at 11 a.m. Thursday before U.S. District Judge David Bunning. “Just because five Supreme Court judges make a ruling, it’s not a law”, she said. “Last night Kim Davis was incarcerated in a jail cell while the rest […]
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A gay man had his nose bitten off in protective custody at the Warren County Regional Jail. Gay civil rights activist Jordan Palmer and Kentucky Equality Federation’s legal representation, Jill Hall Rose, sue. An incarcerated gay man sued a southern Kentucky jail and a fellow inmate Tuesday, claiming the prisoner bit off part of his
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The Daily News Bowling Green – Brandon Milam, an openly gay former inmate of the Warren County Regional Jail, says hatred was the motivation for an assault he suffered at the jail in July. Minutes after teaching a group of other inmates how to play the card game hearts, Milam, 26, was sitting on the
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with kidnapping a man and taking him to a state park in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, then severely beating him while yelling slurs about his sexual orientation. The FBI arrested 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and 19-year-old Alexis Leann Combs Jenkins of
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Growing up, Hindman resident Shannon Ratliff didn’t know she was a lesbian, but like her friends –a group of girls and boys who loved one another unconditionally — she understood that she was different, she says. Although they went their separate ways, they kept in touch and learned in adulthood that
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