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Lingering death penalty case takes toll on family
COVINGTON — Gayle Williamson Cummings and Michelle Hubert sat just feet apart, separated by an aisle and a security guard. They didn’t look at each other or speak with each other, even though they ...
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State to change execution method
Kentucky officials signaled Thursday they will change how prisoners are executed, opening the door to using a single drug instead of the current three-drug method that has been challenged by inmate...
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hospital lays off undisclosed number of workers
ASHLAND — A spokesman for King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland says the hospital has laid off workers and is closing at least one satellite center. The Independent in Ashland reported that...
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Daniel Boone Forest included in caves, mines order
LEXINGTON — The Daniel Boone National Forest is included in an order that’s been renewed closing all caves and abandoned mines on federal forest land in the southeastern United States. The Lexin...
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Swimming advisories extended for streams
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Division of Water and Division of Public Health Protection and Safety say swimming advisories issued last summer will remain in effect because of high levels of fecal colif...
May 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
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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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