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Livingston Central's softball team sent this photo on Twitter for the Union County students injured Friday afternoon. The message says 'Pray 4 Union.'
Bus crash on US 60 spreads 25 people among trio of hospitals
SMITHLAND — A school bus carrying softball players headed to a game in Livingston County overturned Friday, sending 25 people to area emergency rooms and snarling traffic more than five hours. R...
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The Lineup
Today Military Order of the Purple Heart for Western Kentucky, Chapter 585, monthly meeting, 9 a.m., Smokies Restaurant, Fifth Avenue, Calvert City. Paducah Railroad Museum, Marine Way and ...
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Legislation buys time for Barkley tower
The air traffic control tower at Barkley Regional Airport will stay open through the federal fiscal year, which ends this September. The extension is a result of the Reducing Flight Delays Act o...
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Garden club prepares for event
The Paducah Garden Club welcomes spring through a salute to the outdoors with its Mayfair Tour. The Mayfair Tour, which the garden club hosts every two years and began in 1990, is planned for Tu...
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Relocated U.S. 641 section to become ‘super two lanes’
A relocated U.S. 641 from Marion to Interstate 69 is likely to begin as a “super two-lane” highway with the possibility of eventual widening to four lanes. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secret...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Audience members listen during the Murray State University Board of Regents' regular meeting at Pogue Library on Friday. The board voted 7-4 not to renew President Randy Dunn's contract, and he later accepted a position in Ohio.
Dunn rebounds with Youngstown presidency
MURRAY — Within hours of a second Murray State University Board of Regents vote not to renew President Randy Dunn’s contract on Friday, Dunn accepted a new position as president of Youngstown State...
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Wreck causes Murray outages
A Friday morning wreck in Murray caused power outages in some Murray State University buildings. A car driven by Christopher Rowell, 26, of Murray was on North 16th Street when his rear wheels b...
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Names released for boating incident on Kentucky Lake
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has released the names of two men involved in a fatal boating incident on Kentucky Lake. Richard C. Bowen, 53, of Jackson, Mo., was driving...
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The Lineup
Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Call 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. ...
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Bolden slaying case ends
Ronald Lynn will spend at least the next 25 years in jail for the brutal killing of 66-year-old Teresa Bolden. Lynn, a Brookport, Ill., resident, halted preparation for his June death penalty tr...
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Sandra Wilson becomes new chamber president
That didn’t take long. Under four weeks after Elaine Spalding’s last day as Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce president, the chamber board’s chairwoman, Lynn King, announced Sandra Wilson as the ...
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Festival comes together
There was a time when the small town of Cunningham was punctuated by strawberry fields. Seemingly every resident had an acre or two of the vines growing in a field adjacent to the home. Larry Frasi...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Swift & Staley Chief Operating Officer Bill Holsapple (left), CEO Patricia Holsapple, Program Manager Scott Smith and Administrative Manager Shannon Wathen show off copies of "The Story of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Megawatts to Megatons to Megawatts" on Thursday at the Julian Carroll Convention Center. The company sponsored the publishing effort, which documents the history and impact of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Commemorative book details plant’s impact
Ralph Young reminded the community Thursday that the Paducah Citizens Advisory Board is for the people. And Young, CAB chairman, shared that the panel has something new for the people, as well. ...
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Runners honor mothers at Iron Mom marathon
The Paducah Iron Mom Half Marathon was made for people like Brian Waid. Waid, a Paducah firefighter, lost his mother last December. He plans to honor her Saturday by completing the 13.1-mile rac...
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"Flashback: Moments in Time at Lone Oak High School" is available for pickup on Saturday for those who ordered copies, and it goes on sale Monday at The Paducah Sun's offices, 408 Kentucky Ave. James Marine sponsored the book, which looks at the history of Lone Oak High School.
‘Flashback’ preserves Lone Oak High School memory
The new McCracken County High School set to open in the fall isn’t the first instance of local high school consolidation. In 1910, “Professor” Joe Ragsdale established the first McCracken County...
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