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Associated Press Eastern Kentucky resident Rick Handshoe stands beside a small creek on land his family has owned for 200 years in Hueyville. Handshoe says mining has poisoned the water, which sometimes foams like laundry detergent, a sign the pH level is so low something is destroying organic materials in the water.
Floyd County man fears surface mining effects
HUEYSVILLE — Rick Handshoe has about given up. He dreamed of a house beside the small creek on land his family has owned for 200 years; he hoped his daughter would one day live in that house whe...
Jul 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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McConnell tops $6 million for re-election campaign
FRANKFORT — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has banked another $1 million, pushing his campaign bank account to more than $6 million for an election that’s still more than two years away, ...
Jul 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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License plate supporting veterans available
FRANKFORT — Kentucky is now offering a license plate that supports veterans. Gov. Steve Beshear announced on Thursday that the new “I Support Veterans” plate is available for purchase. He sa...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Miss Kentucky 2012 to be chosen this week
LEXINGTON — The competition begins Thursday in Lexington for the Miss Kentucky 2012 pageant, with 31 contestants vying for a chance to represent the state in the Miss America Pageant in January. ...
Jul 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Divisive politics a campaign issue
FRANKFORT — Kentucky candidates have been following the lead of Gov. Steve Beshear who promised last year to try to rid Frankfort of the divisive politics that he insists have been holding the stat...
Jul 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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105-year-old registers to vote in general election
FRANKFORT — Margaret Harris hasn’t voted in an election in 84 years. But she intends to on Nov. 6. The 105-year-old Harrodsburg woman, who was born 14 years before women got the right to vote...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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General Fund exceeds outlook by $83 million
FRANKFORT — Thanks to a slowly recovering economy, Kentucky raised more General Fund tax revenues during the past year than a panel of economic experts had predicted, the state’s chief financial of...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Historic eastern Kentucky building damaged by fire
STERNS — An eastern Kentucky structure built more than a century ago was heavily damaged by a fire. McCreary County Sheriff Gus Skinner said officials are investigating the cause of the weekend ...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Charlotte Stenger (left), a park ranger at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Lake Barkley, briefs visitors during a public tour of the Barkley Power Plant on June 23 in Grand Rivers. Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Public tours resume at Barkley Dam
GRAND RIVERS — Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has pu...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heat blamed on deaths of 1,000 chicks
LOUISVILLE — Postal officials are blaming high temperatures for the deaths of about 1,000 chicks at a mail processing plant in Louisville. United States Postal Service spokesman David Walton sai...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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