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Casinos foresee impact
With legal gambling now moving beyond the casinos and onto the Internet, the industry is bracing for the most far-reaching changes in its history. A Las Vegas firm, Ultimate Gaming, on Tuesday bec...
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Survey: US service firms grew slowly
WASHINGTON — A survey of U.S. service firms says the sector expanded at a slower pace in April than March, as companies reported less business activity and couldn’t raise their prices. The Insti...
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Associated Press Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks April 10 during a luncheon in Chicago. A refined plan to add more casinos and slot machines in Illinois was approved by the Illinois Senate on Wednesday, a proposal supporters believe is their best chance yet to expand gambling in the state. Emanuel has vowed that all revenue from a Chicago casino would go to city schools.
Lawmakers make case for casino
CHICAGO — Visitors to the nation’s third-largest city are usually spotted wandering the Magnificent Mile, snapping pictures of the Willis Tower and sampling Chicago-style deep dish pizza, but if so...
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Jobs
From April 25 to Wednesday, the Office of Employment and Training added 74 jobs to its database for regional employers. The first 38 are listed (Paducah unless noted otherwise): sales associate (no...
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Associated Press Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg (foreground), with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and others, speaks during a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington on April 10.
Bill targets large pharmacies
WASHINGTON — Large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards under a new Sen...
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Japan prices fall in March as deflation continues
TOKYO — Japan’s consumer price index fell 0.9 percent in March from a year earlier, underlining the challenge of ending a long spell of debilitating deflation despite an onslaught of monetary easin...
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Associated Press The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is revealed at media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 14. GM says a base model of the Corvette Stingray will start at just under $52,000, including a $995 shipping charge, when the all-new version goes on sale this summer.
Corvette gets price increase
DETROIT — General Motors said Friday that a base model of the 2014 Corvette Stingray will start at just under $52,000. Considering everything that GM put into the newest Corvette, the $1,400 pri...
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2013 US economy picks up
WASHINGTON — After nearly stalling in late 2012, the American economy quickened its pace early this year despite deep government cutbacks. The 2.5 percent annual growth rate in the January-March qu...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Eirinn Abu, a saxophone performer, plays for the lunch time crowd on Thursday outside the Julian Carroll Convention Center during the American Quilter's Society's Quilt Week in Paducah. One of Paducah's busiest festivals highlights how McCracken County ranks high among Kentucky counties in tourism spending.
Tourism hits sweet note
A steady stream of almost exclusively women flowed past Mary Hammond, executive director of the Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau, on Thursday inside the Julian Carroll Convention Center. T...
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Associated Press A banner reading "No arrests for defending salaries!" is held as a member of the army wears a mask with Jorge Bravo's face on it reading "disciplinarian regime" during a protest outside the Defense Ministry in Madrid on Saturday. Dozens of military personnel were protesting in support of the president of the United Spanish Military Association, Jorge Bravo, who was jailed for openly criticizing government imposed financial cuts to military salaries.
Spain delays deficit targets
MADRID — Spain slashed its economic forecasts Friday and said it would take two years longer than promised to cut its swollen deficit in an acknowledgement that its harsh austerity measures had fai...
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