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Former amusement park in bad shape
LOUISVILLE — The new partners who are working toward reopening the former Kentucky Kingdom amusement park say the facility is in bad condition and may not reopen until 2014. The Courier-Journal ...
May 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McConnell focuses on protecting jobs
LOUISVILLE — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell received a hero’s welcome Wednesday at a Louisville aluminum fabricating plant that had fallen on hard times until he helped pass fair trade le...
May 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky hailstorm costs $175 million in losses
LOUISVILLE — A major hailstorm last month in Kentucky is estimated to have caused $175 million in insured losses and damages when balls of ice as large as baseballs battered cars and homes and knoc...
May 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Colleges want coal-funded scholarships
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear could keep alive a proposal to use coal severance tax dollars for college scholarships that failed to gain traction in the General Assembly earlier this year. Kent...
May 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Western Kentucky getting music park
HARTFORD — A music park is being planned in the western Kentucky town of Hartford. Susan Matthews said she is turning a former country club near the William H. Natcher Parkway into Kentucky Musi...
May 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Researchers win grant for paralyzed patients
LOUISVILLE— University of Louisville scientists who have helped three paralyzed patients stand again have won a $6.3 million grant to bring their technology into patients’ homes. The Courier-Jou...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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AP Photo/Lexington Herald-Leader, Dori Hjalmarson Judy Moore holds a flier with images of her son Kelly Hollan, which includes an age-progression rendering of how he may have looked as he got older, in Jackson in 2009.
Break in Patz case brings hope, tears to families
By ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of “closure.” Patty Wetterling hates the wor...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trial delayed for teen in stepbrother’s death
LOUISVILLE — The trial for a Kentucky teenager charged in the beating death of his stepbrother has been delayed by a day because of furloughs in the court system. Joshua Young, 16, is now set to...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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2 state workers fired for sex with inmate
FRANKFORT — Two female state workers have been fired after admitting to investigators that they had sex with a male prison inmate who was performing janitorial work at the Department of Housing, Bu...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Brian McHale, with Windows of Heaven, removes a section of stained glass from its frame during restoration at First United Methodist Church in Frankfort, Ky. After 150 years, the stained-glass windows of First United Methodist Church are getting a facelift. It's all thanks to tens of thousands of dollars in donations and a man willing to drive nearly 1,600 miles round trip to do the work.
Church windows on the mend
FRANKFORT, Ky. — After 150 years, the stained-glass windows of First United Methodist Church are getting a facelift. It’s all thanks to tens of thousands of dollars in donations and a man willin...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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