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Divisive politics a campaign issue
FRANKFORT — Kentucky candidates have been following the lead of Gov. Steve Beshear who promised last year to try to rid Frankfort of the divisive politics that he insists have been holding the stat...
Jul 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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105-year-old registers to vote in general election
FRANKFORT — Margaret Harris hasn’t voted in an election in 84 years. But she intends to on Nov. 6. The 105-year-old Harrodsburg woman, who was born 14 years before women got the right to vote...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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General Fund exceeds outlook by $83 million
FRANKFORT — Thanks to a slowly recovering economy, Kentucky raised more General Fund tax revenues during the past year than a panel of economic experts had predicted, the state’s chief financial of...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Charlotte Stenger (left), a park ranger at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Lake Barkley, briefs visitors during a public tour of the Barkley Power Plant on June 23 in Grand Rivers. Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Public tours resume at Barkley Dam
GRAND RIVERS — Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has pu...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heat blamed on deaths of 1,000 chicks
LOUISVILLE — Postal officials are blaming high temperatures for the deaths of about 1,000 chicks at a mail processing plant in Louisville. United States Postal Service spokesman David Walton sai...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Historic eastern Kentucky building damaged by fire
STERNS — An eastern Kentucky structure built more than a century ago was heavily damaged by a fire. McCreary County Sheriff Gus Skinner said officials are investigating the cause of the weekend ...
Jul 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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More than 100 new laws take effect Thursday
FRANKFORT — A long list of new laws are set to go in effect this week, including one that will allow Kentucky to offer beefed-up tax incentives to encourage automobile manufacturers and parts suppl...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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I-75 crash kills 3
WILLIAMSBURG — A two-vehicle crash along Interstate 75 in southeastern Kentucky killed three people riding in an SUV. The SUV and a truck traveling in the northbound lanes collided in Whitley Co...
Jul 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beshear rescinds Karem chairmanship
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear has rescinded his designation of David Karem as chairman of the state school board. Beshear issued an executive order last Monday reappointing Karem to the board. ...
Jul 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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For coroner, some deaths become mini-mysteries
BOWLING GREEN — It’s cases like the one in late June that tug at the heart of Warren County Coroner Kevin Kirby. Called to an area home, Kirby found that Billy Darrell Taylor had died alone. ...
Jul 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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