May 24, 2013
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Robin Propes' third grade class scramble to form a pile before the other third grade classes as part of a relay race during field day Thursday at Heath Elementary School.
County schools let out for final time before restructuring
If the beautiful, warm weather didn’t signal the official start of summer, the final bell at McCracken County schools certainly sent the message home. Thursday was the final day of classes for c...
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Sun files Passersby take in the sights and sounds of Live on Broadway last year in downtown Paducah. The downtown summer entertainment series kicks off from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, and will run most Saturdays through Aug. 3.
Live on Broadway returns
It must be summer already. Temperatures are rising. Mosquitoes buzz around. And Live on Broadway is returning. The city’s summer entertainment series launches Saturday with acoustic classic r...
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Nominations sought for Pioneer Award
Nominations are being accepted through June 10 for the Graves County Pioneer Award, an annual tribute to be presented Aug. 3 at the Fancy Farm Picnic. The Pioneer Award honors Graves County resi...
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Ovey places integrity over Russell verdict
EDDYVILLE — Trigg Commonwealth Attorney G.L. Ovey says he is placing his professional integrity over his desire to see the high-profile murder case of Claude Russell come to a verdict by asking to ...
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Theft lands Copelands 10 year sentence each
Two brothers face the next 10 years behind bars for robbing a Paducah Walgreens at gunpoint last summer. Jurors convicted Delvonte Copeland, 20, and Delquan Copeland, 18, of first-degree robbery...
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Paducah Improv to donate proceeds to disaster relief
Paducah Improv will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from its Studio Series shows to disaster relief in Oklahoma. Producer Chuck Tate said the group is concerned with the devastation tornadoes...
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Preparing to say goodbye
It’s part pomp and circumstance and part nostalgia, but when the goodbye ceremony at Paducah Middle School is over Monday and the final bell tolls, assistant principal Christine Krueger may get a l...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun What used to be Sulli's Steak House at 900 N. 32nd St. will soon become a new location for Martha's Vineyard, according to founder Martha Bell. She hopes to move her food preparation to the 32nd Street location while offering clothes and furniture for the needy at the existing 12th Street location.
New location coming for Martha’s Vinyard
For the 23 years Martha Bell has delivered food and essential living supplies to the region’s needy through Martha’s Vineyard, the faith-driven woman has never known how she’d do it. “I don’t ev...
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Park hosts living history event
Columbus-Belmont State Park and the Friends of Columbus-Belmont organization will host a living history program June 1 for National Trails Day. The event will include guided history hikes, cooki...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS| The Sun Jacob Locke, soon to be a sophomore, leads a group of students down a Lone Oak Middle School hallway while carrying desks from Lone Oak Elementary on Wednesday. The Lone Oak Middle School students will move into the current Lone Oak High School, as Lone Oak Elementary's fourth and fifth grade classes move into the middle school building.
Lone Oak students prepare for transition
The end of the school year has arrived and Lone Oak students not only have their bags packed and ready to go, but their entire buildings, too. As Lone Oak High School students make the transitio...
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Symphony offers first summer camp
The Paducah Symphony Orchestra will host its first music camp this summer, June 17-21, at West Kentucky Community & Technical College. It features large and small ensemble groups for fourth thro...
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Agenda
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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