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Amid the holidays, pickpockets ply ancient trade
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO — It’s a dying art on America’s city streets, a bit of sleight-of-hand straight out of Charles Dickens’ London. And yet on the final shopping and tra...
Dec 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Greenup school gets ‘Incredible Hulk’ weights
Associated Press LLOYD — Weights that were custom-made for “The Incredible Hulk” are now helping eastern Kentucky high school athletes shape up. The weights were made for Lou Ferrigno after h...
Dec 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Illinois to create independent tax appeal tribunal
By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tucked away in a law Gov. Pat Quinn signed earlier this month to grant tax relief to major corporations is a provision that supporters sa...
Dec 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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300 soldiers return on Christmas eve FORT KNOX— Hundreds of soldiers stationed at Fort Knox have returned from Afghanistan just in time for Christmas. Army officials say 300 soldiers with the...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish living in once-dead creek near bomb plant
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — For decades at the Y-12 National Security Complex in East Tennessee, mercury from making hydrogen bombs flowed into East Fork Poplar Creek. After its atomic bomb making in Wor...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Probe of deadly crash ranks as top state story
LOUISVILLE — The push to toughen highway safety rules because of a horrific crash linked to cell phone use has been named Kentucky’s top story of 2011. The National Transportation Safety Board d...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Paralyzed man takes long road to graduation
BOWLING GREEN — A bullet may have paralyzed a Bowling Green man’s body, but it focused his mind. After being shot in 2007, Phillip Cole II returned to his hometown of Bowling Green and began tak...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bond at $350,000 for man accused of dragging woman CHICAGO — A judge in Chicago has set bond at $350,000 for a robbery suspect accused of dragging an 80-year-old woman for a block in his car aft...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Religious concert criticized
LIBERTY, Mo. — A Kansas City suburb that attracted a record crowd to its community concert series by inviting a contemporary Christian group plans to stay away from the genre in the future after th...
Dec 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky ‘excited’ about education funds FRANKFORT — Kentucky education officials say they are “excited” about being awarded $17 million in federal “Race to the Top” funding to improve K-12 prog...
Dec 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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