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McCreary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,888. [1] Its county seat is Whitley City. [2] The county is named for James B. McCreary, a Confederate war soldier and two-time Governor of Kentucky (1875–1879, 1911–1915).
McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, 545 U.S. 844 (2005), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 2005. [1] At issue was whether the Court should continue to inquire into the purpose behind a religious display and whether evaluation of the government's claim of secular purpose for the religious displays may take evolution into ...
Whitley City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 968 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 1,170 in 2010. It is the county seat of McCreary County. [4] Whitley City is one of two unincorporated county seats in Kentucky (the other being Burlington in Boone ...
All defendants, including officials from the McCreary County prison and Fort Leavenworth, have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuits, according to court documents. The issue is awaiting a court ...
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
A former assistant principal at a Kentucky high school who resigned while under investigation was charged Monday with having sex with a minor. A McCreary County grand ... The court record ...
A citation from McCreary County Schools’ police department said Gunn was arrested after he attempted to enter the McCreary County Board of Education with a handgun at 6:02 a.m. Tuesday.
In the 2005 case of McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that a display of the Ten Commandments in the Whitley City courthouse of McCreary County was unconstitutional. [17]