MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — As April Miller drove to work, still too stunned to grasp the magnitude of the fight erupting around her, an old song crackled over the car radio.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ A Kentucky judge has finalized the adoption of a 28-year-old man by a woman who was legally married to his mother in Massachusetts, the first step-parent adoption by a member of a same-sex couple in Fayette County and possibly the state following a federal court ruling.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Five pastors and a deacon met with Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's chief of staff on Tuesday to again urge the outgoing governor to accommodate Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' wishes to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Thomas Vandergrift is speaking out against Facebook postings made by a member of the Pennsauken Board of Education, which he views as homophobic and transphobic.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Lexington Mayor Jim Gray filed to run for Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, giving Paul a viable challenger and complicating his bid for re-election as he lags in the polls in his presidential campaign.

The Rowan County clerk at the center of a conflict over same-sex marriage and religious conscience closed her office on Saturday ahead of a rally protesting her refusal to issue marriage licenses.

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — April Miller and Karen Roberts hugged as the news flashed across their television screen, and their hug turned into a brief slow dance across the living room rug.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court is considering whether a woman has a right to intervene in an adoption case involving the child of her former same-sex partner.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Monday night denied an emergency application from a Kentucky clerk who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses because of her religious objections to same-sex marriage.

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Kim Tabor sometimes wears a bright orange T-shirt bearing a slogan she's found herself repeating for weeks: "Hello my name is not Kim Davis."

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A familiar scene repeated itself at a rural Kentucky courthouse: a gay couple marched into the clerk's office, requested a marriage license and insisted that a mounting pile of court orders proves they are entitled to one.

Unsurprisingly, Wednesday’s ruling by Federal Judge John G. Heyburn II that concluded that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states on the grounds that part of the state ban on same-sex marriage treated "gay and lesbian persons differently in a way that demeans them" is not sitting well with most right wing Christian and Tea Party conservatives.

Embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis having gay friends sounds like an oxymoron. But according to the woman herself, she has a few GBFFs.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A transgender employee who said she felt forced to quit her job at a Fargo hospital filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 2 alleging discrimination over the use of locker rooms and treatment by managers.

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The latest on a Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses (all times local):

NORFOLK, Va. -- The Virginia Attorney General's Office wants a federal judge to take note of a recent ruling in Kentucky that said the state must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

White House hopeful Bernie Sanders distanced himself from billionaire Donald Trump on Monday rejecting comparisons between the two anti-establishment campaigns.

Push Ups for Pets, a one-of-a-kind fundraiser will be held on Saturday, Nov. 28 between 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Participants are encouraged to seek sponsors and request at least $1 per push up. The money raised goes to help feed pets in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties with families who are financially challenged due to illness, disability or aging.

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A gay couple emerged from a Kentucky county clerk's office with a marriage license in hand Friday morning, embracing and crying as the defiant clerk who runs the office remained jailed for her refusal to issue the licenses because she opposed same-sex marriage.