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Photo contributed by the Paducah Convention & Visitors Bureau It's been so easy to drive by the Columbia Theater on Broadway and hope for something to come of the beautiful, historic building. The new Columbia Club helps you take action.
Want to resurrect Paducah’s Columbia Theater? Join the club
Simply pining for the glory days of the Columbia Theater in downtown Paducah, and hoping for someone somewhere to bring them back, is easy and comfortable. It’s so much easier to gawk at the wea...
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Shark falls from sky onto golf course
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. — Nobody yelled “Fore!” at a Southern California golf course when a 2-foot-long shark dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee. The 2-pound leopard s...
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Associated Press This green curtain dress worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Scarlett's burgundy ball gown from the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind" were saved from deterioration by a $30,000 conservation effort by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and are on display for the first time in nearly 30 years at London's Victoria and Albert Museum as part of a Hollywood costume exhibit.
Iconic movie dresses restored, displayed
AUSTIN, Texas — It turns out there will be another day for Scarlett O’Hara’s green curtain dress. Many of them. The iconic dress and Scarlett’s burgundy ball gown from the 1939 film “Gone With t...
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School bus, truck crash — without drivers
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Police don’t plan to cite the drivers of a truck and school bus which crashed in western Pennsylvania. But only because neither vehicle had a driver when they wrecked. Pol...
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Births
Burgess — Mckenna Jean Burgess, daughter of Chris and Kay (Rivard) Burgess of Paducah, Aug. 14, Western Baptist Hospital. Grandparents are Sharon and Reg Rivard of Ontario, Canada, and Alice and El...
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Associated Press Lucy, a 5-year-old, lab-basset hound mix, reaches for a homemade cake on a stove in Norman, Okla. Pets and other animals start about 510 house fires every year in this country, the majority involving a stove or oven, lamp or light fixture, a candle, embers or ashes from an ashtray or fireplace, or a space heater.
Pets can create fire hazards
LOS ANGELES — A beloved pet dressed in a Halloween costume, posed next to a lit jack-o-lantern, sounds like a great photo opportunity — but it’s also a fire hazard. Pets and other animals inadve...
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Woman reports giving birth on Philadelphia subway train
PHILADELPHIA — It was a very unusual delivery on a Philadelphia subway line. Police say a woman riding the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Broad Street line told officers sh...
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Associated Press Designs by Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. While Schiaparelli is no longer a household name -- her business folded in 1954 -- her mold-breaking designs firsts have certainly lived on.
Famed fashion house to be revived
PARIS — Shoe hats, lobster dresses, and spiraling goggle glasses could easily be part of a closet inventory belonging to Lady Gaga. But these objects were all spawned from the mind of another wo...
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Odor gets mom and baby kicked off bus
SEATTLE — A woman is complaining to the public transit authority that a driver kicked her off a bus in Seattle because of her baby’s stinky diaper. Nichole Hakimian was taking her 1-year-old son...
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Associated Press The Maniac Pumpkin Carvers' interpretation of "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh, which was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was displayed in the lobby last Halloween. For at least three months each Fall, pumpkin carvers Marc Evan and Chris Soria, of New York City, relinquish their illustrator occupations to carve fantastical pumpkins full-time.
How to buy, prep, carve, preserve your Halloween pumpkin
Think you know the latest tricks for carving a creepy pumpkin? The pros continue to push the barriers. A handful of people become professional pumpkin carvers each fall, specializing in fantasti...
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