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Steven Lynn "Steve" Beshear (born September 21, 1944) is an American politician who is the 61st Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Steve Beshear is predicting he will coast to re-election over two rivals Tuesday, confident of becoming the second Democrat to win a U.S. gubernatorial race this year despite an ailing economy statewide and nationwide that's already proving worrisome to President Barack Obama's 2012 effort.In a conservative state where voters routinely choose Republicans in national races, Democrats have lost only two governor's races since 1950. But Beshear's chief rival, Republican challenger and longtime state Senate President David Williams, is promising to buck a string of poll projections favoring Beshear and score an upset.Williams, the longtime state Senate president, and independent Gatewood Galbraith, an attorney making his fifth run for governor, campaigned on claims that Beshear wasn't doing enough to create jobs in a state where one in 10 workers is unemployed and where budget woes have forced severe cuts to government services.Pre-election polls showed Beshear with a double-...Bruton Smith boasted about the largest crowd to attend a NASCAR race this season: More than 100,000 fans filled Kentucky Speedway in its inaugural Sprint Cup Series ...
Kentucky's governor said Friday there will be an immediate review of ways to restore an aging traffic bridge in the western part of the state after a five-story-high...
Gov. Steve Beshear was accused of snubbing President Barack Obama by not going along when he visited Fort Campbell earlier this year to meet with the Navy SEAL team ...
Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes wrecked several Indiana towns and killed at least 20 people Friday as the system tore roofs off sch...
Carol Rhodes picked through the debris of her life Saturday morning, clutching four VHS tapes to her chest and sobbing as she talked about her neighbors, the Allens....
“You’ve been waiting 11 years,” Bruton Smith told the assembled crowd.No longer.On the “waiting list” for more than a decade, Kentucky Speedway will join the family ...
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is putting up some ice cream from the University of Connecticut's dairy bar against a country ham in a Final Four wager with Kentuc...
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Interstate 75 in Kentucky has been designated as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail."Gov. Steve Beshear joined local leaders in Frankfort to unvei...
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says he supports having two Iraqis face terrorism-related charges at Guantanamo Bay rather than in his state's courts.The Democrat's comm...
Gov. Steve Beshear says the state will make $3.6 million in road improvements around the Kentucky Speedway racetrack where massive traffic jams marred a Sprint Cup r...
In a Bible Belt state that is home to the Creation Museum and a Noah's Ark-themed park in the works, the sight of Kentucky's Democratic governor taking part in a Hin...
A Bible-belt state hoping to land a biblical theme park that includes a full-size replica of Noah's Ark approved tax incentives Thursday to help pay for it.The Kentu...
A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security, politics and even the poss...
After a sex scandal at a privately run prison in rural Kentucky, the state cut off the institution's funding and now it's shutting down — and that worries town offic...
En route to having his jersey retired by the University of Kentucky, Richie Farmer embodied the traits of a storied basketball program that's as deeply ingrained in ...
Another championship banner has been unfurled at Rupp Arena.Kentucky's basketball team returned home to its adoring fans Tuesday, after defeating Kansas 67-59 Monday...
The voyage of a cargo boat that carries space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force has stalled in a western Kentucky river after it slamme...
The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday reopened a portion of the Tennessee River after a cargo boat struck and collapsed a section of a Kentucky bridge at the western entr...
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has been re-elected, becoming the second Democrat to win a U.S. gubernatorial race this year amid lingering economic uncertainty that's a...
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