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Associated Press A flock of endangered whooping cranes enters the skies over Kentucky in 2008, on their way to their wintering sites in Florida. Kentucky wildlife officials report they've spotted a whooping crane at the Sloughs Wildlife Management Area near Henderson and received a report of two others along the Pond River in Hopkins County.
Endangered whooping cranes spotted in midst of sandhill hunting season
FRANKFORT — Kentucky wildlife officials report they’ve spotted an endangered whooping crane at the Sloughs Wildlife Management Area near Henderson and that they’ve received a report of two others a...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rupp ditches Coke for Pepsi
LEXINGTON — Wildcat fans who have spent 37 years drinking Coca-Cola products at Rupp Arena will be in for a surprise next week. Beginning Wednesday, Rupp will be selling only Pepsi beverages at ...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Unemployment rates improve in 99 counties, worsen in 20
FRANKFORT — The state agency that monitors unemployment is reporting that jobless rates improved in 99 counties in November but worsened in 20 others. The Kentucky Office of Employment and Train...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Mark Hicks, of Paducah, sweeps snow off his sport utility vehicle Wednesday in Paducah. Hicks, the owner of a Waffle Hut, was heading out into the winter storm to pick up employees for work.
Snow blankets Western Kentucky
Heather Cauley and her family didn’t want to miss seeing snow for only the second time since moving to western Kentucky two years ago, so they cut short a vacation to visit family in south Georgia ...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Barge companies plead for help on Mississippi
FRANKFORT — Several companies that operate barges on the drought-stricken Mississippi River have asked Gov. Steve Beshear to intervene by calling for a presidential disaster declaration. The com...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judge: Chinese man not advised of deportation
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge has ruled that a man cannot immediately be sent to back China because he wasn’t told of the risk of being deported when he pleaded guilty to illegally harboring immigra...
Dec 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Woman charged in shooting gets holiday off
FRANKFORT — A Kentucky woman in jail awaiting trial on charges she shot her neighbor’s trailer, hitting an elderly woman’s head, has been granted a 24-hour furlough to spend Christmas with her thre...
Dec 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jailer starts church services behind bars
HICKMAN — A western Kentucky jailer has started church services for inmates who can’t get to a house of prayer from behind bars. Fulton County Jailer Ricky Parnell started the practice three mon...
Dec 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Weather extremes voted top story
LOUISVILLE — Punishing weather that spawned late-winter tornadoes and a summer drought has been voted Kentucky’s top story of 2012. Kentucky was hit by a cluster of tornadoes in an early March o...
Dec 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bill would expand DNA testing to more inmates
FRANKFORT — A northern Kentucky lawmaker has proposed allowing more inmates around the state to have access to DNA testing. Republican state Sen. John Schickel of Union has thrown his support be...
Dec 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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