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Personnel Board to discuss hefty agriculture audit
FRANKFORT — The Personnel Board is expected to consider a scathing audit of the Agriculture Department under former Commissioner Richie Farmer. The panel on Monday will take its first action on ...
May 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Jockey Mario Gutierrez rides I'll Have Another to victory in the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 5 in Louisville.
Churchill Downs seeing shortest meets since ’75
LOUISVILLE — Churchill Downs is seeing its shortest spring meets since 1975 and some owners, trainers and breeders fear they could get even shorter. The 138-year-old track is facing horse shorta...
May 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nunn attorney withdraws, says client is ‘unable to pay’
LEXINGTON — The lawyer who has represented former state lawmaker Steve Nunn since 2009 has withdrawn as his counsel. Warren Scoville wrote in his motion to withdraw that Nunn is “currently incar...
May 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Teachers forgo raises to prevent staff cuts
BURLINGTON — Teachers in Boone County have decided to forgo raises in order to keep 46 positions from being cut. The tentative budget approved by the Boone County Schools Board of Education is $...
May 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press A bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon is dipped in red wax during a tour in April 2009 of the distillery in Loretto. On Wednesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker's Mark would be illegal.
Appeals court grants wax seal to Maker’s Mark
LOUISVILLE — A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker’s Mark would be illegal. Noting that...
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky Baptist Convention cuts staff
LOUISVILLE — The Kentucky Baptist Convention has announced the departure of 23 full-time workers and four part-time employees. The convention said on Monday that the workers had taken incentives...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Probe into racetrack death continues
LOUISVILLE — Louisville police have been searching for witnesses in the death of 48-year-old Adan Fabian Perez, whose body was found early Sunday in a barn at Churchill Downs. Police spokeswoman...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jockey enters not guilty plea in assault
LOUISVILLE — An attorney for jockey Robby Albarado says the veteran rider is worried his racing career is at risk as he faces an assault charge in Kentucky. Albarado’s attorney, Scott Barton, en...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Soldier sentenced to life without parole
FORT CAMPBELL — A Fort Campbell soldier has been sentenced to life without parole in the deaths of his estranged wife and another woman in central Kentucky. Brent Burke had four mistrials in civ...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press The crime scene tape is gone around Barn 8 at Churchill Downs on Monday in Louisville. An apparent homicide was discovered in the back of the building early Sunday morning following the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Slaying a Derby whodunit
LOUISVILLE — The bourbon had been stashed away and the hats returned to closets by the time someone found a groomer’s body inside a barn at Churchill Downs, hours after the running of America’s mos...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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