May 18, 2013
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Rate disputes put Big Rivers’ fate in question
HENDERSON — Questions are being raised about the future viability of regional utility Big Rivers Electric Corp. The Gleaner reported doubts about future of Henderson-based Big Rivers was a topic...
Mar 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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McConnell downplays impact of spending cuts
LOUISVILLE — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the $85 billion in broad-based federal spending cuts due to take effect on Friday “modest” and downplayed risks that the reductions would ...
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Pension proposal mired in gridlock
FRANKFORT — A proposal to shore up Kentucky’s financially troubled pension system for government retirees hit political gridlock Friday, despite a previous pledge of bipartisan cooperation between ...
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Sun files A field camera captures an image of a large coyote in a field about 1,000 yards away from a residential subdivision, and about a mile west of Kentucky Oaks Mall, on Feb. 11. A new bill would allow the dog-like animals to be shot night or day.
Coyotes wear out their welcome
FRANKFORT — Coyotes could be shot night or day under a bill that appears headed for passage in the Kentucky Legislature. The dog-like animals have proliferated across the state to the point that...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hemp bill stalls in House
FRANKFORT — Momentum for a bill laying the groundwork for a possible industrial hemp comeback skidded to a halt Wednesday when a Kentucky House panel failed to vote on the measure, which would set ...
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House committee overhauls pension reform bill
FRANKFORT — New government hires would be eligible to participate in the same retirement plans as current employees under overhauled legislation that passed a House committee on Tuesday. House D...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Several states try to protect sex-trade victims
FRANKFORT — Kentucky may soon join a small but growing number of states enacting laws to protect juvenile victims of the sex trade. House Bill 3 would restrict authorities’ ability to charge min...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man pleads guilty in double slaying
BOWLING GREEN — A Lexington man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting two people at an apartment complex in Bowling Green in 2005. The Daily News reports 32-year-old Gilbert U. Holts Jr. entere...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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High school offers year-round black history
WINCHESTER — A teacher at an eastern Kentucky high school says students have responded well to the first yearlong course on black history. History teacher Amy Madsen said she asked to teach the ...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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This image provided by the LBJ Presidential Library shows Whitney Young during a meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 18, 1964. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., tells the story of YoungÕs boldness in dealing with civil rights issues in ÒThe Powerbroker: Whitney YoungÕs Fight For Civil RightsÓ a documentary airing during Black History Month on PBSÕ Independent Lens and shown in some community theaters. (AP Photo/LBJ Presidential Library, Yoichi Okamoto)
Rights leader receives due credit
WASHINGTON — Just before the March on Washington in 1963, President John F. Kennedy summoned six top civil rights leaders to the White House to talk about his fears that civil rights legislation he...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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