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Beshear order adds more qualifying conditions to Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program

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Additional conditions have been added to the list of recognized conditions for the Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program.

Governor Andy Beshear on Tuesday signed an executive order “directing Team Kentucky’s Office of Medical Cannabis to issue an emergency regulation further clarifying qualifying conditions for medical cannabis in Kentucky law.” Included in the order are sickle cell anemia, ALS, Crohn’s disease, Parkinson’s, terminal illnesses, and more.

According to a release from the Governor’s Office, Beshear says the law is meant to provide “a safe alternative form of pain relief for Kentuckians suffering” so the executive order makes the law more clear to help more Kentuckians have access to medical cannabis as an alternative to opioids. Beshear noted that the added conditions have always been within the scope of the Medical Cannabis Program’s six permissible diagnoses, but the order provides patients and medical providers clear confirmation.

32 medical cannabis businesses are up and running in Kentucky, including Green Leaf Dispensary which opened in Elizabethtown on June 1. More than 500 medical cannabis practitioners have been registered under the program, and more than 23,700 Kentuckians have been approved for medical cannabis cards.

Find more information on the Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program at kymedcan.ky.gov.

Nick Houck arrested in Nelson County on Perjury charge

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The brother of the man convicted for the murder of Crystal Rogers is now in custody.

Kentucky State Police Post Post Four says just after 1:30 p.m. Thursday Nicholas “Nick” Houck of Bardstown was arrested on a Nelson County indictment warrant which was the result of an investigation conducted by KSP Post Four detectives.

According to the KSP, the investigation indicates Houck “allegedly committed perjury between 2015 and 2023.” Houck was charged with First Degree Perjury, a Class D Felony punishable by one to five years in prison.

Houck was taken into custody and lodged without incident. He was lodged in the Nelson County Correctional Center, held on a $25,000 cash bond, before being transferred to the Hardin County Detention Center on a courtesy hold. Kentucky’s VINE system indicates Houck was released at 6:18 p.m. Thursday. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for June 18.

The KSP says the investigation is ongoing and “no further details will be provided at this time.”

Houck’s brother, Brooks Houck, was found guilty of Murder – Principal or Accomplice and Tampering with Physical Evidence on July 8, 2025, for the death of Rogers. While never arrested or charged in the investigation, Special Prosecutor Shane Young stated in a hearing that the Commonwealth considered Nick Houck and his mother, Rosemary Houck, “unindicted co-conspirators” in the case.

(Photo Credit: Nelson County Jail)

Breckinridge County Public Library offers summer reading fun for kids and adults

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The Summer Reading Program is under way at the Breckinridge County Public Library, and a wide variety of activities are available at the library all summer long to keep kids reading during summer break.

“Our basic schedule is on Mondays we have our special events like our Pokemon Party that was this week and then this upcoming Monday is our Garden Party, and we’ll also have our special visitors on Mondays,” said BCPL Children’s Librarian Izzy Deaton. “On Tuesdays we have our regular story time, and we’ll be doing our outreach in the Cloverport area at different places each week. On Wednesdays we have Art Club at 1, and on Thursdays at 10 a.m. we have Gardening Club and in the afternoon starting at 1 we have Open STEAM. On Fridays we have our Book to Movie Club so we are screening movies that were originally books, and then on Saturday we’ll have activities that go along with the stories we have out on our Story Walk, so you can walk, get some exercise in, read a story, and then come inside, cool off, and do an activity that will go with that.”

In addition to programs and activities, the library also invites kids to participate in the Summer Reading Challenge, where kids can pick up a weekly reading log and enter to win a prize. There is also a Summer Reading Challenge for adults.

“We have a summer reading log that measures minutes as well, and then we also have our summer reading bingo, which is like specific little events and if you get a line bingo you can get a prize, and then there’s a monthly prize for reading for June and July for adults,” Deaton said.

Summer reading program events are free and no registration is required. Visit the Breckinridge County Public Library Facebook page or website for more information.