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Associated Press Members of the United Mine Workers of America wait to be arrested by police during a protest outside the headquarters of Peabody Energy in St. Louis on Feb. 13. The union is promising to have thousands of miners and their supporters rallying in St. Louis when Patriot Coal Corp.'s bankruptcy hearing begins. Patriot, spun off Peabody in 2007, is seeking drastic cuts in retiree health care benefits.
Patriot Coal bankruptcy case begins
ST. LOUIS — The United Mine Workers of America union is promising to have thousands of miners and their supporters rallying in St. Louis next week as Patriot Coal Corp.’s bankruptcy hearing goes to...
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Homicide victim won $4.9 million in 2005 fire
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Columbia art dealer who was gunned down in his home earlier this month had won nearly $5 million in a legal settlement after he was badly burned in a 2005 apartment fire that forc...
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No fat left to cut, chief tells board
PARIS, Tenn. — The administrator of Henry County Medical Center says the hospital in Paris may have to begin cutting services. According to the Paris Post-Intelligencer, a financial report show...
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Man pleads guilty to running down joggers
JACKSON, Mo. — A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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School threat brings charge
HENDERSON — A western Kentucky man has been charged with terroristic threatening after police say someone overheard him in a restaurant discussing how he could use explosives at Henderson County Hi...
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Coal plant to use byproduct as fertilizer
LOUISVILLE — Waste products from a coal-fired Louisville power plant will be turned into fertilizer by a new facility that was unveiled Monday. The announcement by LG&E and Charah Inc. drew Kent...
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Relatives wrestle over gun, 1 shot
HODGENVILLE — Investigators say two family members fought over a gun, resulting in one person being shot at a home in Hodgenville. LaRue County Sheriff Merle Edlin told WAVE-TV in Louisville the...
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Associated Press Richie Farmer smiles before a debate at Ketucky Educational Television in Lexington in 2011. Farmer, a former agriculture commissioner, was indicted Monday on federal charges of misappropriating state funds.
Former ag commissioner indicted on federal charges
LEXINGTON — A Kentucky basketball icon whose jersey hangs from the rafters of Rupp Arena was accused in a federal indictment Monday of misappropriating government funds during his tenure as head of...
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Associated Press Film critic Roger Ebert and wife, Chaz, look at a plaque dedicated to Ebert's life and achievements in front of his childhood home in Urbana, Ill., in April 2009. Through his television shows, movies reviews and essays, Ebert belonged to the world beyond nearby Urbana. But if you read the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic closely, you knew a piece of him stayed behind in the college town where he grew up.
Ebert remained close to Urbana
URBANA, Ill. — Michael Esteves wakes up every day in the spot Roger Ebert called the center of the universe, and it isn’t Chicago, New York or Cannes. Esteves owns the place, in fact. He has si...
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Toyota to build Lexus in Kentucky
GEORGETOWN — Toyota will start building the Lexus ES 350 at a factory in Georgetown, Ky., starting in 2015, producing a luxury brand vehicle for the first time in the United States. The Japanese ca...
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