From where do great leaders draw their inspiration? For George Washington, it was the Roman general Cincinnatus; for Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky’s greatest son, it was forebears like Henry Clay and great thinkers like Thomas Paine. For Matt Bevin, Kentucky’s present leader, it is a smear on the sidewalk that, if it isn’t an actual piece of shit, it certainly looks a lot like one.

Tuesday night, the Associated Press declared Kentucky’s Democratic primary too close to call, reporting a margin of less than one-half of 1 percent between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton with almost all the votes counted.

Thousands of people in Kentucky learned a very valuable lesson about cars and snow on Saturday: do not mix them.

Thanks to an executive order from Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear today, 140,000 people convicted of nonviolent felonies in the state will have their voting rights restored, effective immediately. Previously, a felony conviction carried a lifetime voting ban in Kentucky.

The Appalachian Trail seems like America’s Bermuda Triangle. It’s where horny politicians conveniently go missing. It’s the 2,200 miles of wilderness my boyfriends decide to go when things start to get serious. And for a Kentucky man who left his family and wanted to avoid a near $9 million embezzlement case, it’s a great place to relax for six years, New York Daily News reports.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt contemptuous, anti-gay civil servants.

A barbecue cook was charged with second-degree wanton endangerment this weekend for allegedly throwing a piece of hot brisket at another cook, burning her face, neck and shoulders, WKYT reports.

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has found a way to have her wedding cake and eat it too: she’s back in the office collecting a paycheck but she won’t be issuing any marriage licenses to gay couples, no siree.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk and Christian conservative hero who went to jail last week for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was ordered released by a federal judge today.

The last union coal mine in Kentucky, a state where workers fought and died for the right to organize, has closed, the Associated Press reports. Patriot Coal had announced the closing of its Highland Mine, which employed about 400 hourly workers, late last year.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, will appeal the contempt of court ruling that put her in jail, her attorney said Friday. Davis has been locked up since Thursday, and her deputies have been granting long-awaited licenses to gay couples in her absence.

With anti-gay Clerk Kim Davis locked up for contempt of court, William Smith and James Yates were able to this morning to finally obtain a gay marriage license from the Rowan County, Kentucky, courthouse.

After Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis was held in contempt of court and locked up Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples “on God’s authority,” five of her six deputy clerks told a judge they would begin issuing the licenses as the law requires.

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage in June, has been jailed in contempt of court, local news outlets are reporting.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in June, is scheduled to appear in federal court this morning. If U.S. District Judge David Bunning holds Davis in contempt of court, she may face fines or jail time.

Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, continued to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples Tuesday, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s direct order that she do so. Davis, an elected official, had asked to be excused from that part of her job on religious grounds. The Court denied her appeal Monday.

In the face of adversity, one courageous defender is holding strong: the Rowan County clerk’s office in Morehead, KY, which is bravely defying a federal judge’s order in its quest to ensure that not all people are treated as equals, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

The footage above is incredible, perhaps era-defining. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to a man named David V. Moore and his male partner of 17 years when they went to the Rowan County Clerk’s Office in Morehead, Kentucky on Monday. The pair were made to wait around while others cut ahead of them. When they finally were acknowledged by those working in the office, they were told to go to another county courthouse to obtain their license.

According to WOWK-TV, two men were arrested in Kentucky this weekend after filming a video where one of them runs exposed through Walmart wearing a Halloween mask while dousing himself in milk and yelling, “I’m on fire!”