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Associated Press Ross Elementary fifth-grade students Juilanna Bell (clockwise from left), Mollie Weinberg, Courtney Turner and Mckenzie Thompson work on a handmade sign Wednesday in Creve Coeur, Mo. The sign will be used when St. Louis hosts a "Welcome Home the Heroes from Iraq Day" on Saturday with a noontime parade through downtown to welcome veterans of the war in Iraq.
St. Louis hosts end-of-war parade
ST. LOUIS — Since the Iraq War ended there has been little fanfare for the veterans returning home. No ticker-tape parades. No massive, flag-waving public celebrations. So, two friends from St. ...
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Kentucky man hopes to give away 1 million baseball cards to kids
DANVILLE — A central Kentucky man is swinging for the fences — hoping to collect and give away 1 million baseball cards to children who have very little. Jerry Milburn of Lawrenceburg started th...
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Eastern Kentucky school battling bedbugs LONDON — Laurel County health and school officials are trying to eliminate bedbugs at an elementary school. Teachers first noticed the insects before ...
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Lawmakers work to postpone filing deadline
FRANKFORT — Congressional candidates would have an additional week to file for election under an agreement reached on Friday between the House and Senate. Negotiators trying to work out an agree...
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FBI: Foiled slaying plot was to be blamed on cat
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Federal investigators helped by a conscientious paroled killer say they foiled a plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy man in a scheme they say borrowed elements f...
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House GOP lawsuit challenges redistricting
FRANKFORT — House Republicans hit hard in a contentious redistricting process struck back Thursday, filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of newly drawn legislative boundaries that the...
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Associated Press Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, speaks Wednesday at Miami-Dade College in Miami, Fla.
Romney, Gingrich have filed in Kentucky
FRANKFORT — Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are the only two candidates to officially enter Kentucky’s May 22 primary election so far. Gingrich made the ballot on ...
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Beshear: Casino bill coming soon
FRANKFORT — A long-awaited proposal to open Kentucky to casino gambling could be introduced in the state Senate within days. Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear said Wednesday he has reached an agreem...
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GOP to seek injunction on House redistricting
FRANKFORT — Kentucky House Republicans plan to file a lawsuit within days challenging the constitutionality of a redistricting measure that hits GOP state representatives especially hard, the party...
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Committee approves buggies bill
FRANKFORT — A Senate committee has approved a bill that would allow the Amish to use reflective tape and lanterns on their horse-drawn buggies and wagons rather than the orange triangular slow-movi...
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