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Kentucky teen honored for kids’ blankets project
HARRODSBURG — A Kentucky teen is being honored for a project that makes and distributes fleece blankets to children. Julia Higginbotham, 17, found out this month that Prudential Financial select...
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Associated Press Noble Street College Prep students Khadijah Hallmon (left) and Chadie Morris pose in the hall of their school in Chicago on Thursday. The school has a policy of charging students $5 for detentions stemming from infractions that can include chewing gum and having untied shoelaces.
Students pay fines for detentions
CHICAGO — A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from dozens of colleges. Everyone wears a school polo sh...
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Fairgrounds seeking luxury hotel LOUISVILLE — The Kentucky State Fair Board is seeking proposals for a luxury hotel that they say would lure more large conventions and trade shows to the area. ...
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Associated Press The Southern Baptist Convention is shown in December in Nashville, Tenn. The nation's largest protestant denomination will definitely remain "Baptist," but leaders are thinking about whether it will be "Southern" for much longer. Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright was expected to present the recommendation of a task force assigned to study a name change to the denomination's executive committee at a meeting Monday.
Southern Baptist panel recommends name add-on
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A panel for the Southern Baptist Convention recommended Monday that its leadership approve a new, add-on description for the denomination — “Great Commission Baptists” — but stop...
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Bill would aid jobless military spouses
FORT CAMPBELL — Military spouses who leave their jobs because of the frequent moves required in the military would be eligible for unemployment benefits under proposed bill in Tennessee that has th...
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Associated Press Vehicles sustain damage Sunday after a chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 75 in Campbell County, Tenn. Tennessee state police said a juvenile was seriously injured and others were hurt when blinding snow and fog contributed to the string of crashes along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 75 near Jellico, Tenn.
Winter snow chills South
A winter storm has dumped several inches of snow on a band of southern states, triggering accidents on slippery roads and knocking out power to tens of thousands. The storm brought wet snow on S...
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More public schools dish up 3 meals a day
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where the next meal comes from. So Doug White, pri...
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Associated Press Teresa Dunn of Murphysboro, Ill., works on a painting at her studio in East Lansing, Mich., where she is an assistant professor of painting at Michigan State University.
Illinois native’s paintings go global
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — Teresa Dunn’s passion has taken her from Southern Illinois to around the globe. Raised in Murphysboro by her parents Oliver and Maria Dunn, she graduated from Murphysboro Hig...
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Tennessee hospitals move to change culture NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than a dozen serious medical errors were reported at Middle Tennessee hospitals over the past three years — and federal statist...
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Joplin seniors get nod from Perry
JOPLIN, Mo. — Joplin High School seniors, whose school was destroyed in the massive tornado last year, gathered for a special assembly that included a surprise message from pop singer Katy Perry an...
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