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Credit Kiowa County Press The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the Circuit Court judicial vacancy for Greenup and Lewis counties. The counties make up the 20th Judicial Circuit and the vacancy is in the circuit’s Division 1. The three nominees for the judgeship are attorneys Paul Eugene Craft of Russell, Brian Christopher McCloud of Worthington and Matthew Jackson Warnock of Ashland. Craft is a managing partner with the general practice law firm of McGinnis Leslie and serves as the city attorney for the cit...

PROVIDENCE -- Four nominees to state court bench are expected to go before the full Senate on Friday after being approved by the state Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The committee on Tuesday night roundly approved, following glowing testimony, Gov. Gina Raimondo’s nomination of  Linda Rekas Sloan and Superior Court Magistrate Richard Raspallo  as Superior Court judges; Central Falls Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Ortiz to the Family Court bench; and Kevin Reall to Workers’ Compensation Court. If approved by the Senate, Rekas Sloan and Ortiz would make historic firsts in Rhode Islan...