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n Paducah-McCracken Joint Sewer Agency — 5 p.m., meeting facility, Northview Street. n Murray City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m., City Hall.
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Bobby Staples Jr. (front) reviews surveillance footage as a state witness Wednesday in McCracken Circuit Court as Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Jim Harris holds up two guns that police say were used in a 2012 robbery of Walgreens. Staples, who is the stepfather of defendants Delvonte and Dequan Copeland, owns the guns but testified that they were not the ones shown in the videotape.
Jurors to get Walgreens robbery case
McCracken County jurors will decide today the fate of two brothers accused of robbing a Paducah drug store at gunpoint.  Delvonte Copeland, 20, and Delquan Copeland, 18, are charged with first-d...
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Ovey seeks recusal from Russell case
Trigg County Commonwealth Attorney G.L. Ovey is seeking to recuse himself from the high-profile murder case of Claude Russell, according to a motion filed this week. Russell is charged with murd...
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LATA delays layoffs, jobs hinge on DOE funding
LATA Kentucky will hold off for 30 days on planned layoffs that were set to kick in June 3, according to Mark Duff, LATA Kentucky project manager. Congress has approved a “reprogramming request”...
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Traffic to be restricted on Cairo bridge
Repairs on the U.S. 51 Ohio River bridge, also known as the Cairo bridge, will restrict commercial traffic this summer and fall. Commercial trucks, tour buses and other large vehicles will be re-ro...
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Moped crash injures teen
A Paducah teen was injured Wednesday evening in a collision on Benton Road. Deputies with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched at 5 p.m. to the crash at the intersection wit...
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McCracken District Court
March 14 Cynthia Tilford, 54, 224 Westside Dr., Paducah, harassing communications; 30 days, serve two, two-year conditional discharge, no contact with victim or victim’s family, pay $210. R...
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Boy, 13, accused of assault
A 13-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree assault after an incident Sunday evening on the playground of Morgan Elementary School, and the child making the claim of being attacked has return...
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Kathleen Fox | The Sun Clyde Stevens (right) and Gerald Wells look over information related to options for the future of the Cairo bridge at a public meeting Tuesday at The Ballard Center in La Center. The primary options include rehabilitating the existing bridge, replacing the bridge at its current location or building a new bridge in a different location.
Residents review Cairo bridge options
LA CENTER — Local residents had two opportunities this week to voice their thoughts on several options related to the fate of the Cairo Bridge. Opinions varied but the bottom line was that the agin...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Kelsey Thompson, a survivor of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia, works at a computer terminal at the American Cancer Society office in Paducah on Tuesday. Thompson's experience as a cancer survivor fueled her desire to work with the cancer society.
100 years, and still fighting strong
Essie Bailey knows firsthand how advances in cancer treatment and research have changed in the past century. The 87-year-old Murray resident has battled breast cancer twice. The diagnoses were s...
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