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A jury recommended a 20-year sentence for a Mayfield man convicted of trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree second offense on Tuesday in Graves County Circuit Court. The final sentencing is set for August. Anthony Finch, 43, sold a substance testing positive for cocaine to a confidential informant on Jan. 10 while he was on probation for trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree first offense. He was arrested on Jan. 25, and has been in Graves County Jail since that time. Finch has a re-trial set for July 12. ... A Benton man was listed in fair condition at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind., after falling asleep while driving on Ky. 402. Edward A. Dixon, 20, of Benton was driving west on Ky. 402 when he apparently fell asleep and crossed the east lane of traffic before going off the south side of the roadway at about 6:08 a.m.

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Safe at home on the Fourth
Overcast skies and sporadic rain didn't stop many people from getting outside to celebrate the Fourth ...

Photos by JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun
Nine-week-old Kayley Howell of Benton rests peacefully in her stroller engulfed with American flags Friday at Glory Days in Mayfield. Her grandmother, Kim Glover of Mayfield, was watching Kayley. The child is the niece of Staff Sgt. Billy Nored, a medical technician with the U.S. Air Force based at Langley, Va., who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Dwarfism no big deal for Union teenager
DONGOLA, Ill. - Mitchell Ulrich's story is how big of a story his dwarfism is not.
Sure, people in ...

Cities ponder making golf carts street legal
Various movies and TV shows have always enjoyed a good car chase on a golf course, as golfers tee off ...

Riverfront bustles before fireworks show
At about 6 p.m. Saturday, clusters of families and friends gathered around picnic tables and on the ...

Graves schools remove tuition
MAYFIELD, Ky. - Students from kindergarten through 12th grade who want to attend a Graves County public ...

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KITTY LEAGUE BASEBALL - Farmington at Fulton (7 p.m.), Marion at Owensboro (7 p.m.)
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OUTDOORS

Brown recluse
We tend to make monsters out of anything that is venomous and has been known to bite people, and the ...

The brown recluse is probably present in more homes than the human residents realize.

Not mowing in some areas way to spare wildlife
The exorbitant cost of gasoline this summer is just another good reason to park the mower and spare ...

LBL seeks input on plan to bolster shortleaf pine
GOLDEN POND, Ky. -The Land Between the Lakes is open to public comments on efforts to regenerate and ...

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July is a good time to consider starting new plants
July is a transition month. The flush of spring is over, and summer plants have settled in. Maintenance ...

OPINION

NUCLEAR
The president may not be able to pronounce it, but he understands how vital "nukular" energy is to America's ...

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