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Drug abuse bill OK’d
FRANKFORT — Responding to an epidemic of prescription drug abuse, Kentucky lawmakers passed a measure Friday that political leaders hope will help change the stark reality that more people are dyin...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Senate committee approves transportation budget
FRANKFORT — The Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee has approved a $4.5 billion transportation budget but not before inserting language that would restore nearly $50 million for road constr...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Theft victim chases suspect until police arrive
HOPKINSVILLE — A robbery suspect is in jail, perhaps for lack of an exit strategy. Police in Hopkinsville have charged Jimmy Leon Yokely with robbing a consignment shop in Hopkinsville. The quic...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beshear approves road plan after vetoing portions
FRANKFORT — Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear signed off a $4.5 billion road construction plan Wednesday after using his line-item veto power to remove nearly $50 million in projects slated for a large...
Apr 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Prescription abuse bill clears Ky. House committee
FRANKFORT — Unscrupulous doctors who overprescribe painkillers that are being widely abused in Kentucky could be more quickly identified and prosecuted under a bill approved by the House Judiciary ...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man breaks into house, pour a bowl of cereal
EAST BERNSTADT — An eastern Kentucky homeowner says a man came into his house and poured a bowl of cereal. Mark Copeland walked into the kitchen of his family’s home in East Bernstadt and saw 36...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Proposed ban on race day medications fails
LEXINGTON — A proposal to ban an anti-bleeding drug on race days in Kentucky lost by a nose on Monday in a debate dividing a hobbled thoroughbred industry struggling to preserve the Bluegrass state...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lawmakers return to Frankfort for another round
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers hurriedly introduced two key bills dealing with highway construction and drug abuse Monday in hopes of wrapping up a $60,000-a-day special legislative session as quickly as po...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Work on Greenup Locks and Dam to begin in June
LLOYD — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say work to replace a set of aging gates at the Greenup Locks and Dam on the Ohio River will begin in June. The $12 million project will replace the upri...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Amish families carry clout in politics
FRANKFORT — With his broad-brimmed straw hat and long beard, Jacob Gingerich drew strange looks as he walked the marble corridors of the state Capitol alongside powerful men in shiny shoes and e...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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