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Associated Press A sign states that the Bad Branch Nature Preserve in Whitesburg closes at 8 p.m. More than three dozen Pennsylvania college students spending spring break in Kentucky on a mission trip were safe Friday after becoming lost for hours.
Rescuers help 40 lost hikers
WHITESBURG SEmD More than three dozen Pennsylvania college students spending spring break in Kentucky on a mission trip were safe Friday after becoming lost for hours when a sightseeing mountain hi...
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Associated Press A crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas June 25 in Zelienople, Pa. As the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking; mobilizes thousands around the country both for and against the process, industry and some environmental groups in Illinois have come together to draft regulations both sides could live with. Some hope that cooperative approach could be a model for other states.
Illinois deal could be national model
CHICAGO — After years of clashing over the drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the oil industry and environmentalists have achieved something extraordinary in Illinois: Th...
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Associated Press House Agriculture Committee and Small Business Committee Chairman Tom McKee (center) talks with Rep. Jim Wayne (left) and Rep. Brent Yonts on Monday in Frankfort. A House committee passed a hemp bill Wednesday, but its future remains uncertain.
Panel passes hemp bill; future uncertain
FRANKFORT — A proposal that could open the door to industrial hemp farming in Kentucky cleared a House committee Wednesday, but it faces a dubious future in the full chamber. The Senate already ...
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Beshear pledges to finish pension reform
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear pledged Tuesday to get a measure passed this year to shore up the state’s pension system for government retirees, even if it means calling a special legislative sessi...
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Judd needs to decide soon on Senate
FRANKFORT, Ky. — As Democrats encourage actress Ashley Judd to jump into Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race and Republicans take every opportunity to call her a Hollywood liberal, a University of Kentucky...
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Company in fatal crash had 17 traffic tickets
LOUISVILLE — A trucking company involved in a crash that killed six people in Kentucky had accumulated 17 traffic violations over two years before the accident, leading federal authorities to advis...
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New teacher evaluation program receives praise from latest users
FRANKFORT — A pilot program to standardize the way educators are evaluated across Kentucky drew rave reviews Wednesday from some who have been using it. The program evaluates teachers using seve...
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McConnell readies for re-election
FRANKFORT — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is gearing up for a tough re-election fight next year in Kentucky. He wants to prevent one, too. McConnell is trying to head off a GOP p...
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6 die in crash on I-65 in central Kentucky
ELIZABETHTOWN — Kentucky State Police said six people died and two children were injured in a fiery crash on Interstate 65 in central Kentucky. Police dispatcher Chuck Stewart said a semi-truck ...
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Associated Press U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (right) and wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, speak with supporters at a Republican dinner Saturday in Winchester. A liberal political group had made an issue of Chao's ethnicity in messages distributed on Twitter last month.
McConnell takes on group for criticizing wife
WINCHESTER — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, calling its Twitter m...
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