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Beshear appoints 4th GOP lawmaker to state job
FRANKFORT — A retiring Republican lawmaker is being appointed to a position in the Finance and Administration Cabinet. State Rep. Danny Ford, 60, of Mount Vernon is set to become surplus propert...
Dec 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Counterfeit bill in printer leads to arrest
RICHMOND — Police said a central Kentucky man was arrested after allegedly returning a printer to Walmart that contained a counterfeit bill. The Richmond Register cited a statement from police i...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suit: Lounge denied access to blacks
LOUISVILLE — A restaurant emblazoned with the Maker’s Mark name is accused in a lawsuit of civil-rights violations by allegedly refusing to allow a party for a black group. The claim has stirred th...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Officials: More school resource officers needed, not armed cops
Kentucky education officials said Friday the National Rifle Association’s call for armed police officers in every school is not the answer to school safety issues. Instead, officials said every ...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Study: Overdose deaths up 282 percent
LEXINGTON — A new study shows drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 282 percent between 2000 and 2010. The study announced this week by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center analyze...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Threats common after attacks
LOUISVILLE — After a freshman shot and killed three classmates at Heath High School in Paducah in 1997, the man who was principal at the time says so many new threats were reported that police want...
Dec 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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School saves $1 million in energy use
GEORGETOWN — A central Kentucky school district says it has passed the $1 million mark since implementing a plan three years ago to become more energy efficient. Jim McClanahan, who is energy ma...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ex-military contractor pleads not guilty to fraud
LOUISVILLE — A former military contractor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to writing a federal contract and creating a job with a private company at Fort Knox that ultimately worked to his financial ben...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Regulation bans new forms of synthetic marijuana
LOUISVILLE — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear stepped up the fight against synthetic drugs on Tuesday by signing emergency regulations banning new forms of synthetic marijuana. The action is aimed at...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Student arrested after weapon parts taken on school bus
SHEPHERDSVILLE — Police arrested a Bullitt County High School student who is accused of bring parts of an air gun onto a school bus. Bullitt County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Murdoch said that the juven...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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