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Prescription abuse bill clears Ky. House committee
FRANKFORT — Unscrupulous doctors who overprescribe painkillers that are being widely abused in Kentucky could be more quickly identified and prosecuted under a bill approved by the House Judiciary ...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man breaks into house, pour a bowl of cereal
EAST BERNSTADT — An eastern Kentucky homeowner says a man came into his house and poured a bowl of cereal. Mark Copeland walked into the kitchen of his family’s home in East Bernstadt and saw 36...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Proposed ban on race day medications fails
LEXINGTON — A proposal to ban an anti-bleeding drug on race days in Kentucky lost by a nose on Monday in a debate dividing a hobbled thoroughbred industry struggling to preserve the Bluegrass state...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lawmakers return to Frankfort for another round
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers hurriedly introduced two key bills dealing with highway construction and drug abuse Monday in hopes of wrapping up a $60,000-a-day special legislative session as quickly as po...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Work on Greenup Locks and Dam to begin in June
LLOYD — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say work to replace a set of aging gates at the Greenup Locks and Dam on the Ohio River will begin in June. The $12 million project will replace the upri...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Amish families carry clout in politics
FRANKFORT — With his broad-brimmed straw hat and long beard, Jacob Gingerich drew strange looks as he walked the marble corridors of the state Capitol alongside powerful men in shiny shoes and e...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plans under way to remember Civil War battles in Kentucky
LEXINGTON — Plans are being made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Civil War battles in Richmond and Perryville. The Battle of Richmond, which was fought on Aug. 30, 1862, will commemorate...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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City mulls taxing parked houseboats
BURNSIDE — A southern Kentucky city is considering a proposal to begin taxing hundreds of houseboats docked at marinas. Burnside Mayor Ron Jones presented the idea to the city council at its mee...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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State’s ex-racing steward looking for comeback
LOUISVILLE — Sidelined for nearly half a year, Kentucky’s former chief racing steward John Veitch is looking to make a comeback in the horse racing business at age 66 after a judge blocked his susp...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legislative session produces winners, losers
FRANKFORT — With political leaders declaring Kentucky’s drug abuse problem an epidemic, lawmakers passed a bill intended to curb production of methamphetamine, the often homemade intoxicant that ca...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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