May 23, 2013
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From April 25 to Wednesday, the Office of Employment and Training added 74 jobs to its database for regional employers. The first 38 are listed (Paducah unless noted otherwise): sales associate (no...
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Associated Press Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg (foreground), with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and others, speaks during a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington on April 10.
Bill targets large pharmacies
WASHINGTON — Large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards under a new Sen...
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Japan prices fall in March as deflation continues
TOKYO — Japan’s consumer price index fell 0.9 percent in March from a year earlier, underlining the challenge of ending a long spell of debilitating deflation despite an onslaught of monetary easin...
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Associated Press The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is revealed at media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 14. GM says a base model of the Corvette Stingray will start at just under $52,000, including a $995 shipping charge, when the all-new version goes on sale this summer.
Corvette gets price increase
DETROIT — General Motors said Friday that a base model of the 2014 Corvette Stingray will start at just under $52,000. Considering everything that GM put into the newest Corvette, the $1,400 pri...
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2013 US economy picks up
WASHINGTON — After nearly stalling in late 2012, the American economy quickened its pace early this year despite deep government cutbacks. The 2.5 percent annual growth rate in the January-March qu...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Eirinn Abu, a saxophone performer, plays for the lunch time crowd on Thursday outside the Julian Carroll Convention Center during the American Quilter's Society's Quilt Week in Paducah. One of Paducah's busiest festivals highlights how McCracken County ranks high among Kentucky counties in tourism spending.
Tourism hits sweet note
A steady stream of almost exclusively women flowed past Mary Hammond, executive director of the Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau, on Thursday inside the Julian Carroll Convention Center. T...
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Associated Press A banner reading "No arrests for defending salaries!" is held as a member of the army wears a mask with Jorge Bravo's face on it reading "disciplinarian regime" during a protest outside the Defense Ministry in Madrid on Saturday. Dozens of military personnel were protesting in support of the president of the United Spanish Military Association, Jorge Bravo, who was jailed for openly criticizing government imposed financial cuts to military salaries.
Spain delays deficit targets
MADRID — Spain slashed its economic forecasts Friday and said it would take two years longer than promised to cut its swollen deficit in an acknowledgement that its harsh austerity measures had fai...
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Associated Press Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, joins the Senate GOP leadership during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The senators criticized the FAA's plan to furlough air traffic controllers because of forced budget cuts. From left are Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, John Thune, R-S.D., Collins and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Airline service improves but delays still possible
NEW YORK — A day after flight delays plagued much of the nation, air travel was smoother Tuesday, but the government warned passengers that the situation could change by the hour as thousands of ai...
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Congress slows military efforts to save finances
WASHINGTON — Parked around the airstrip at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in th...
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Associated Press An Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service driver in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2010. States could force internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate on Monday.
Internet shopping jeopardized by bill
WASHINGTON — Tax-free shopping on the internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate. The bill would empower states to require online retailers to collect state and...
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