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Associated Press Kentucky Downs horse racing track and simulcasting facility, in Franklin is a fledgling gaming center that has the look of casino style gambling.
Racing track making gaming inroads
FRANKLIN — Kentucky, the state of bourbon and bluegrass, hasn’t yet approved casino gambling, but there’s one spot that’s making inroads. In tiny Franklin, near where Andrew Jackson and Sam Hous...
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Officials believe arson is culprit in 9 fires LEXINGTON — Fire officials in Lexington say they believe an arsonist is setting blazes in a neighbor where nine fires have been reported since e...
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Missouri Court to mull redistricting challenges
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Just weeks before candidates can begin filing for office, the Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether new congressional boundaries were gerrymandered for the political b...
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Report: Fewer people being stopped in Illinois
CHICAGO — The number of traffic stops across Illinois has dropped by nearly 6 percent and the number of ticketed motorists has dipped about 11 percent, according to a published report Sunday. Th...
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Ali returning home for 70th birthday
LOUISVILLE — Muhammad Ali is coming home to Louisville to celebrate another milestone — his 70th birthday. The iconic heavyweight boxing champion will bask in the limelight once again at a priva...
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School plan fuels buzz inside Capitol
FRANKFORT — What appeared to be an unlikely proposal to create a new public university in Appalachia became one of the most talked about topics in the opening week of the Kentucky General Assembly,...
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Associated Press Elaborate detail covers every inch of stained glass windows in St. Joseph Catholic Church seen on Dec. 13 in Peoria, Ill.
Stained glass helps share faith
PEORIA, Ill. — No one knows who made the first stained glass windows. Some of the earliest examples date to the first century, A.D. And while the materials have improved since then, the tools u...
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Motorists salvage fur, food from critters’ demise
CASEYVILLE, Ill. — In six years of trapping, one thing has become apparent to Cody Champ: His pursuit of animal pelts isn’t cheap, costing him $100 a week just for gas. So, it’s little wonder the I...
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Train kills pedestrian
Train kills pedestrian LOUISVILLE — A Louisville woman has been hit by a train and killed. Authorities say the unidentified woman was hit by a CSX train near LaGrange Road. The train was goin...
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Panel: School mergers could cost billions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Merging the state’s 800-plus school districts into a more manageable number could cost nearly $4 billion, according to a recent report that may kill any chance that a commission...
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