Lisa Autry
Reporter/ProducerLisa is a Scottsville native and WKU alum. She has worked in radio as a news reporter and anchor for 18 years. Prior to joining WKU Public Radio, she most recently worked at WHAS in Louisville and WLAC in Nashville. She has received numerous awards from the Associated Press, including Best Reporter in Kentucky. Many of her stories have been heard on NPR.
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Governor Andy Beshear’s newly-formed political action committee, In This Together, has released its first round of endorsements. The list includes candidates running for federal and state offices, including one contest in his home state of Kentucky.
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A superintendent from Eastern Kentucky will become the state’s next education commissioner. The appointment of Robbie Fletcher was approved on Thursday in a special meeting of the Kentucky Board of Education.
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A former Eastern Kentucky coal mine is being revived into a storage facility that creates hydroelectric power. Gov. Andy Beshear joined officials on Thursday from the U.S. Department of Energy to announce the project in Bell County.
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The Kentucky Board of Education will announce its choice for the state’s next education commissioner on Thursday. Members have scheduled a special meeting to announce the new hire after confirming on Tuesday that contract talks had begun with the preferred candidate.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court has removed Pulaski County’s circuit court clerk from office. Employees accused Joseph Flynn of inappropriate conduct, but he could return after the November election.
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The operations arm of Kentucky’s court system says there was no emergency on Friday, despite an alert issued to many courthouses and judicial centers.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court has denied a reduction in bond for Brooks Houck, the ex-boyfriend of a Bardstown woman missing since 2015. The decision will keep him in jail until he goes on trial Feb. 10, 2025, on charges related to the death of Crystal Rogers.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit Elizabethtown on Wednesday to promote President Biden’s economic agenda. During her visit to Hardin County, Yellen will tour an electric vehicle battery supplier.
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More than 1,000 Kentuckians are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. That list is now one person shorter thanks to a selfless act from a stranger. While some college students were headed to the beach on spring break, a medical student at Somerset Community College used that time to donate a kidney to someone she’d never met, a grandfather from Eastern Kentucky.
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On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible along a 2,000 mile stretch from Texas to Maine. Western Kentucky University will play an important in documenting this rare, celestial event.