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Casino: Politician lost $500,000 playing slots
CHICAGO — A powerful Chicago politician who earns just a five-figure salary gambled away nearly $500,000 playing slot machines over three years at a single casino, according to records entered into...
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Email exchange hints at Missouri GOP rift
ST. LOUIS — A rift appears to be growing between the new and veteran factions of the Missouri Republican Party. Missouri Republican chairman Ed Martin sent an email this week chastising what he ...
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East Tennessee experiencing increase in armadillo numbers
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The armadillo invasion of East Tennessee has gone more quickly than expected. Timothy Gaudin, who is a biology professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, says ...
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Woman’s vulgar note results in charges
MOUNT PLEASANT, Tenn. — A Middle Tennessee woman is facing charges after police saidshe displayed a vulgar message about an officer who arrested her daughter on a drug charge. The Daily Herald r...
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Associated Press Protesters gather on the plaza across from the state Capitol Friday in Nashville, Tenn. The demonstrators were speaking out against a University of Tennessee plan to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland.
School proposes fracking on own land
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the en...
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State will display superintendent payroll, evaluations
FRANKFORT — The public will soon be able to view the full compensation packages of Kentucky’s superintendents as well as their performance evaluations on the education department’s website, state o...
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Henderson jobless rate higher than year ago
Henderson County’s unemployment rate in January was higher than one year earlier, reflecting in part the shutdown of Patriot Coal Corp.’s two mines here. The jobless rate in January was 8.0 perc...
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2 girls remembered ‘spunky,’ ‘a little angel’
GRAY — Family members recalled two young sisters killed in a southern Kentucky house fire as “spunky” and “a little angel.” Family honored Paiten and Briel Cox on Thursday, five days after a bla...
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Election board clears Williams of coordination
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance has cleared former Senate President David Williams and a political action of illegal coordination during the 2011 election. But, the registr...
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Associated Press Lung transplant patient Bill Ray sits with his doctors, David Nunley (left), Victor van Berkel (right) and Allan Ramirez, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville on Thursday. The hospital says Ray, of Zeigler, Ill., became the oldest patient in Kentucky to receive a new lung when he underwent the surgery last year at age 73.
Lung transplant patient feels good after turning 74
LOUISVILLE — A man who at 73 became the oldest person to receive a lung transplant in Kentucky paid a visit for some follow-up tests Thursday at the hospital where he was operated on, saying he fel...
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