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Kentucky not to cut down tree
FRANKFORT — In a tough economy, Kentucky will avoid even the minimal cost of hauling in an official Christmas tree, opting instead to decorate an evergreen growing on the Capitol’s front lawn. F...
Nov 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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With Comer victory, farmers show political sway
FRANKFORT — Farmers have proven that crops aren’t all they can produce. In a show of political muscle, they supplied the green needed to help one of their own win the elected position of agricul...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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City mulls getting rid of one-way streets
LEXINGTON — Downtown Lexington’s confusing pattern of one-way streets could soon be a thing of the past. The city is moving to implement one of Mayor Jim Gray’s first promises upon taking office...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Woman sues over miscarriage in jail NASHVILLE — A Nashville woman has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence and wrongful death over a miscarriage she had while being held in a city jail. Lisa M...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Investigators work at the site of a plane crash behind a farmhouse Saturday in Crystal Lake, Ill. Authorities say all four people who were on board were killed.
Chicago-area plane crash kills 4
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — Four people were killed Saturday when a small plane crashed into a field in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, officials said. The crash happened about 10:30 a.m. near Crystal ...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisville merger failed to deliver jobs
LOUISVILLE — A report about the effects of the 2003 merger of Louisville and Jefferson County governments shows that the merger has failed to bring in more jobs and economic development and didn’t ...
Nov 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Care for disabled siblings challenging, rewarding
SPRING HILL, Tenn. — Robert Fitts grabs his limp left arm and drapes it across his lap. He lifts his left leg and moves it closer to his right. Then he adjusts himself in his chair. “My personal...
Nov 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Distiller funds travel expenses for soldiers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s is donating more than $100,000 to pay for plane tickets and travel funds for soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., to spend the December holiday season with...
Nov 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yonts proposes different option to curb meth
FRANKFORT — A Kentucky lawmaker offered a fresh proposal Tuesday to fight meth abuse in Kentucky, where lawmakers have been in a stalemate over whether to make cold and allergy medications containi...
Nov 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press 3 dead, 1 injured in shooting Kentucky State Police investigate one of two pickup trucks abandoned at the scene of a shooting incident that left three people killed and one seriously injured Tuesday near Sonora. Master Trooper Norman Chaffins said David Walker and his wife, Barbara, both 51 years old and from Elizabethtown, were killed along with a third person, 55-year-old Steve L. Bottoms of Radcliff. Walker's daughter, April M. Roberts, 32, of Elizabethtown, was shot in both legs and was being interviewed by investigators at University of Louisville Hospital, the trooper added. Chaffins said more than one gun was used and "probably" more than one person fired a shot, but there wasn't a shooter still at large.
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Teen to be sentenced in beating death LOUISVILLE — A western Kentucky teen is set to be sentenced in the beating death of a 9-year-old girl in a case that has sparked concern about the secrecy o...
Nov 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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