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Associated Press Knee-high socks and wreaths of flowers adorn Jessica Brinker's headstone Thursday at a Catholic cemetery in St. James, Mo. Brinker was 15 when she was killed in August 2010 when the bus on which she was riding with fellow members of her high school's marching band was involved in a pileup wreck investigators say began with a pickup truck's driver who had been texting behind the wheel.
Cellphone debate hits home where wreck took heavy toll
ST. JAMES, Mo. — The text was about something innocuous: A request to go to the county fair. It set off a highway pileup that took two lives, injured dozens and left two school buses and a pickup ...
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Charging stations not getting much use
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Charging stations in Tennessee outnumber electric cars and many aren’t used for hours or even days at a time, according to The Tennesseean. State data shows that about 270 all...
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Worker dies from injuries in plant explosion
Worker dies from injuries in plant explosion HENDERSON — A worker who suffered severe burns in an explosion at a western Kentucky plant earlier this month has died of his injuries. Mark Stone...
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Associated Press Duck hunter Gavin Sullivan motors around Big Lake, west of Blytheville, Ark., on Dec. 8 to check the water levels after recent flooding. Big Lake was changed to a swamp ecosystem by the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.
Two centuries after earthquakes, what’s next?
The United States was still a young nation when three major earthquakes rocked the central Mississippi River valley in the winter of 1811-1812. Chimneys fell, the earth heaved and church bells r...
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Nation Briefs
Irene was tropical storm over New Jersey MIAMI — Irene was a tropical storm — not a hurricane — when it made landfall in New Jersey in August, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have d...
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Donations get judge pulled from asbestos cases EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A judge who was assigned to hear all of the asbestos cases in her southwestern Illinois county was stripped of those cases aft...
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Blagojevich
Attorney requests treatment for Blago
CHICAGO — Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys have asked to have him placed in a drug abuse program when he starts his 14-year prison sentence for corruption, though they aren’t saying if the former Illino...
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Former Louisville archbishop dies
LOUISVILLE— Thomas C. Kelly, who led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville for a quarter of a century and guided it through a clergy abuse scandal, died at his home parish on Wednesday. He w...
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Associated Press Gov. Steve Beshear sings "Happy Birthday" to his wife, Jane Beshear, on Tuesday before taking the oath of office at his inauguration in Frankfort. Beshear's inaugural day push to allow more kinds of gambling in Kentucky drew immediate opposition from church leaders.
Gambling foes ready for next fight
FRANKFORT— Gov. Steve Beshear’s inaugural day push for a constitutional amendment to allow more kinds of gambling in Kentucky drew immediate opposition from church leaders who are promising a fight...
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Records: Substance abuse factor in child abuse
LEXINGTON — A newspaper’s review of recently released records found that substance abuse is often a factor when children in Kentucky are neglected or abused. The Lexington Herald-Leader reviewed...
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