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Town readies for prison closure
After a sex scandal at a privately run prison in rural Kentucky, the state cut off the institution’s funding and now it’s shutting down — and that worries town officials in an impoverished Appalach...
Apr 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Conway: Most laws passed effective July 12
FRANKFORT — Attorney General Jack Conway has set July 12 as the date of most new laws passed this year by the General Assembly will take effect. The attorney general’s office is called on yearly...
Apr 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Meredith
Deadly crash spurs lawmakers to fund fix for I-65
FRANKFORT — One of Kentucky’s deadliest highway crashes cemented the Legislature’s resolve to widen a rural stretch of Interstate 65 that’s poised to get $100 million worth of improvements in the n...
Apr 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letcher County jail inmate dies
WHITESBURG — Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a Letcher County jail inmate. Terry Cantrell, 55, of Jenkins died Saturday after being taken to the Appalachian Regional Healthc...
Apr 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two charged in slaying
TOMPKINSVILLE — Kentucky State Police have charged two people in the slaying of a southern Kentucky woman. John W. Smith, 41, of Tompkinsville and Chasity R. Hagan, 34, of Summer Shade were char...
Apr 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bridge replacement route has businesses concerned
COVINGTON — Leaders in northern Kentucky’s largest city are stressing the importance of a public hearing this week on the design for a replacement of the Brent Spence Bridge. That’s because the ...
Apr 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky lawmaker ‘biggest loser’ of fat
FRANKFORT — A central Kentucky lawmaker can declare he is the “biggest loser” in a recent legislative session. Democratic Rep. Terry Mills, of Lebanon, lost 40 pounds in a weight-loss challenge ...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Christopher Massey checks the oil level in his lawn mower on April 14 in Madisonville. The Madisonville resident said he received a message from God that he had some mowing to do after waking up one Sunday morning about a month ago. After funds for the individually owned and maintained plots at Elliot Memorial Gardens cemetery were depleted, the grass became overgrown. When Massey noticed the tall grass while out driving after church that Sunday, he began voluntarily mowing it.
Good Samaritan donates for cemetery upkeep
MADISONVILLE — Madisonville resident Christopher Massey woke up one Sunday morning with instructions from God. After church service that same afternoon about a month ago, Christopher told his da...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Neo-Nazi rally ‘peaceful’ despite hot rhetoric
FRANKFORT — At least 70 law enforcement officers were present to control a crowd of 150 to 200 demonstrators when a group of neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members rallied against illegal immigration S...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Senate passes road budget
FRANKFORT — A $4.5 billion transportation budget that will pave highways, build bridges and expand airports across Kentucky received final approval in the Kentucky Senate on Friday. The Senate v...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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