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Associated Press Janette Chapman (right) and Elizabeth Buckner make their way through a table filled with jams and jellies competing for blue ribbons at the Kentucky State Fair on Monday in Louisville.
Competition stiff for state fair blue ribbons
LOUISVILLE — Some aspire to turn their knack for baking into a career. Others want to showcase treasured family recipes or skills learned at the side of loved ones who passed along their culinary s...
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Man sentenced to 45 years for apartment fire
LEXINGTON — A 20-year-old Kentucky man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for setting a fire in a Lexington apartment building in 2010. Brandon Dockery was sentenced Friday in Lexington after p...
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Associated Press Maj. Gen. James McConville (top left) and CIA Director David Petraeus (top right) inspect the troops Friday at Fort Campbell. Petraeus returned to Fort Campbell to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the famed 101st Airborne Division, a unit he once led in combat in Iraq.
Petraeus visits 101st Airborne
FORT CAMPBELL — CIA Director David Petraeus returned to Fort Campbell on Friday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the famed 101st Airborne Division, a unit he once led in combat in Iraq. The ...
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Associated Press One of two copper stills that will produce Town Branch bourbon at a $6 million distillery being built by Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. appears Thursday in Lexington. Distillery officials showed off the new distillery Thursday, when it was announced the distillery will become the seventh member of the popular Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
Lexington distiller joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail
LEXINGTON — Kentucky’s age-old bourbon sector welcomed a big-city newcomer to an exclusive club on Thursday, adding Lexington’s first new distillery in more than a century to the popular Kentucky B...
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New plan proposed for Kentucky Kingdom
LOUISVILLE — There’s a new plan to develop an abandoned amusement park in Louisville. The Courier-Journal reports three Louisville business leaders joined developer Ed Hart in a $40 million bid ...
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GOP lawmakers question ACT exam
FRANKFORT — Some Kentucky lawmakers have expressed concerns about how evolution is taught to high school biology students. The issue was brought up during a meeting of the Interim Committee on E...
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Tim Maggard, director of instructional technology for Hardin County schools, points to a reference in a textbook Aug. 8 being used that still lists Pluto as a full-fledged planet. Maggard is developing virtual textbooks that could help Kentucky bring its textbooks up to date at little or no cost during a time when there is no funding for new materials.
Kentucky spending little to none on new textbooks
ELIZABETHTOWN — Tim Maggard imagines that someday when a teacher tells students to take out their books and turn to Chapter 3, they will flick on an electronic device rather than haul out an outdat...
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Man hit by train, air-lifted to hospital
MADISONVILLE, — A western Kentucky man was flown to a hospital after being hit by a train. Madisonville police said 32-year-old Matthew Edwards was on the railroad tracks Sunday morning as a CS...
Aug 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man charged after buried remains found
HAZARD — Police say the husband of a missing woman has been charged with murder after investigators unearthed remains on his property. Kentucky State Police said in a statement on Monday that tr...
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Associated Press Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (left) salutes during a review of the 101st Airborne Division in France on March 14, 1945.
Storied 101st marks 70th anniversary
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After months of grueling road marches through the north Georgia mountains, a group of elite paratroopers had to put their training to the test in a trial by fire. They leapt from...
Aug 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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