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Brown exits animal control director job
Jeff Brown is no longer the McCracken County Animal Control director, and Chief Deputy Mike Turnbow has taken over interim administrative duties at the county’s animal shelter. Judge-Executive V...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Pat Sparks, a development leader at LYNX Services, takes the first swing at a battered old car Thursday as part of a destructive fundraiser for the McCracken County Relay For Life, while Wes Dixon, community services representative, cheers her on. The fundraiser is in honor of Sparks who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer over the summer.
Event takes whack at cancer
Something strangely therapeutic lies within taking a sledgehammer to a car window, and it’s precisely that unexpected venting of frustrations that went through Pat Sparks as she lifted her hammer t...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun From left, Gary Adkisson, general manager of The Paducah Sun and of the Four Rivers Business Journal, Tammi Halvorson, 2012 Woman of Achievement winner, and Kim B. Knopf, CEO of Innovative Mattress Solutions, pose for a photo Thursday during the awards luncheon in Paducah.
Knopf shares story of success
Starting out with nothing but sheer guts, self-determination and a really solid work ethic, Kim Knopf climbed her way to the top of the corporate world, serving now as an inspiration for fellow pow...
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Sun files One of the participants of the 2011 Paducah Zombie Walk grabbed for the camera as an estimated 350 people shambled along Broadway in downtown Paducah. The ghoulish fun at this year's Zombie Walk will begin at 5:45 p.m. Saturday at Ninth Street and Broadway.
Zombie Walk turnout could be staggering
Organizers are looking for a few good walkers to shuffle, shamble and stagger their way through the fourth annual Paducah Zombie Walk. Zombies will depart from Ninth Street and Broadway at 5:45 ...
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Cash
Police name trooper who killed gunman
Four days after a fatal shooting in Graves County, police released the name of the state trooper involved. State police on Wednesday identified the trooper as Jody Cash. Trooper Jay Thomas, Pos...
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Livingston Livestock
LEDBETTER — Markets totaled 636 head. Compared to last week: All classes of feeder cattle were steady. Slaughter cows and bulls, steady to $2 higher. Slaughter cows: breaker, 75 to 80 percent le...
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Murray State suspends Jackson for entire season
Murray State announced Wednesday afternoon that men’s basketball player Zay Jackson has been suspended for the entire 2012-2013 season. MSU athletic director Allen Ward said Jackson won’t be all...
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Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today. n Murray City Council — 6:30 p.m., City Hall. n Paducah-McCracken Joint Sewer Agency — 5 p.m., meeting facility, Northview Street.
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Think Pink! Think success
Wednesday marked the conclusion of the Sun’s 2012 Think Pink! program that for five consecutive Wednesdays beginning Sept. 26 shared local stories of breast cancer survivors and highlighted the ...
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The Lineup
Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive; 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Report e...
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Search for fugitive triggers 5 drug-related arrests
Five McCracken County residents face drug-related charges after a search for a fugitive from a halfway house. The sheriff’s department received information about David McElya, 33 — convicted in ...
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Photo contributed Paul Welch (right), professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, inspects an excavation site at Kincaid Mounds in Massac County with participants in the 2012 SIU summer field school. Welch will lead walking tours of the mounds during the annual Kincaid Mounds Archaeology Field Day on Saturday.
Field Day showcases findings at mounds
Attempts to solve the mysteries at Kincaid Mounds have brought as many questions as they have answers. On Saturday, archaeologists and other scholars will share both with the public. Last summer...
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Collision injures driver
A two-vehicle wreck in Calloway County sent a Murray man to the hospital Tuesday, police said. State police learned of the wreck at 6:52 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 641 and Radio Road, just...
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Easter Seals offers new program
Easter Seals West Kentucky plans a program designed to provide medically specialized child care and development services for children with special health care needs. Danny Carroll, Easter Seals ...
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WKCTC test scores result in dismissals
At least two employees involved in inaccurately reported McCracken County Adult Education program test scores at West Kentucky Community & Technical College have been fired. Letters were mailed ...
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