May 22, 2013
Kentucky
High court takes up governor’s moves
FRANKFORT — Kentucky lawmakers took $700,000 in excess funds from the agency that oversees charitable gaming in 2008 and to help pay off a $265 million shortfall in the budget. Should the state hav...
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Gov. Steve Beshear (left) talks with Chamber of Commerce President Dave Adkisson at the Capitol in Frankfort after a news conference held on Monday. Beshear told reporters that he supports awarding grants to school districts that prohibit anyone under 18 from dropping out of school.
Education fund launches with $3 million in grants
FRANKFORT — A non-profit foundation that will support innovative teaching approaches in Kentucky’s public schools will launch this week using nearly $3 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda G...
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McConnell fundraising nears $13 million
FRANKFORT — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has banked nearly $13 million for his re-election campaign, including more than $1.8 million since January, according to a financial report filed with the Fede...
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Senate Republican Mitch McConnell talks with his wife, then-U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao, during a Fraternal Order of Police convention in Louisville In August 2007. McConnell has asked the FBI to investigate how a recording of himself and aides talking strategy, tied to liberal group Progress Kentucky, was made. In March, the same group tweeted that Chao, who was born in Taiwan, may be the reason U.S. jobs are going to China. The group later removed the tweets and apologized.
Liberal PAC has little cash, influence
FRANKFORT — The liberal super PAC from Kentucky that incurred the wrath of one of the country’s most powerful Republicans is an organization of outsiders that has barely raised any funds toward its...
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Popular mud runs come to Ashland
ASHLAND — Races that include obstacle courses and plenty of mud are making their way to Boyd County. The Independent reports Mountain Rush Mud Run is holding four events at the Boyd County Fairg...
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Trial begins for three charged in fatal attack
PINEVILLE — The trial has begun for three people charged with fatally attacking a 91-year-old man in southeastern Kentucky. The Middlesboro Daily News and WYMT-TV report testimony began Friday f...
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State charge remains on Tennessee man’s record
LOUISVILLE — A Tennessee man is fighting to clear his name of a felony drug charge in Kentucky. Louisville police arrested 24-year-old Jerry Jones of Cookeville, Tenn., in 2011 on a marijuana ch...
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Dropout incentive money in budget
LOUISVILLE— Kentucky education commissioner Terry Holliday says he’s using money already in the department’s budget to offer incentives to school districts that are quick to adopt a new dropout age...
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Breathitt schools removing Ten Commandments
JACKSON — Breathitt County school officials say they are removing Ten Commandments displays from the high school, middle school and elementary schools. WYMT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/ZdS6n0) the...
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Sheriff: 2 teens confess to shooting livestock
PINEVILLE — A south-eastern Kentucky sheriff says two teenagers charged with shooting several cows told him they committed the acts because they were bored. Bell County Sheriff Bruce Bennett tol...
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