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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Sisters Bianca (left) and Autumn Sloan laugh while enjoying pumpkin pie at a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday at McNabb Elementary. It was the first time the school has hosted a Thanksgiving meal for the community, and about 200 people attended.
Hundreds of community members gather for Thanksgiving feasts
The smell of turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings permeated the unseasonably warm air outside of several McCracken County locations that offered free Thanksgiving meals on Thursday. Hundreds o...
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Fabric sculptors to host workshop
Sondra Schwetman and Patrick Williams, 3-D sculptors from Arcata, Calif., are the current participants in the Paducah Artist-in-Residence Program. PAA hosts visiting American and international a...
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Man arrested after shooting at home
State police arrested a man accused of firing shots at a Kuttawa home. Robert Kevin Burchett, 45, of Eddyville, faces a charge of attempted murder stemming from the Wednesday shooting on 113 E. ...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Matthew Riley (left) from Paducah Tilghman and James Walden from Reidland secure a board on a pirate ship playhouse built by Lynn Roger's carpentry class on Tuesday at the Paducah Area Technology Center. The classmates get together every year to build a different children's playhouse to benefit Child Watch, an organization for the prevention and treatment of child abuse.
Students’ efforts help bolster organization’s programs
Weighing in at nearly one ton and rising more than 8 feet above ground-level, the pirate ship playhouse for this year’s Child Watch Children’s Advocacy Center fundraiser reflects the magnitude of c...
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Mahmoud
Burglary leads to drug charges
Detectives investigating a burglary allege a Paducah business owner traded synthetic drugs for stolen property, police said. Stemming from a burglary investigation on Nov. 15 that resulted in th...
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McCracken District Court
July 10 Patricia Ann Thompson, 48, 7025 Bethel Church Rd., Kevil, operating a motor vehicle under influence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $1,034, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no furth...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Debbie Cartwright of Paducah carefully picks out a turkey to cook for her family on Thanksgiving on Wednesday at Supervalu in Lone Oak. Last years turkey sales were so high at the grocery store that it caused them to run out of the holiday staple, while this years sales are much more steady allowing them to keep turkeys in stock thus far.
Turkey time
Debbie Cartwright of Paducah carefully picks out a turkey Wednesday to cook for her family on Thanksgiving at Supervalu in Lone Oak. Last year’s turkey sales were so high at the grocery store that ...
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The Lineup
Friday SNbSSenior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Call 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and ab...
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River closing could affect local industry
Local river industry executives are keeping an eye on a possible halt to barge traffic beginning in early December along the middle of the Mississippi River. River shipping interests call the ha...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Collin Watkins (left), Isaac Phillips, and Sam Barnett (right) work on a project in Melissa Willoughby's (middle) Human Body Systems class on Tuesday at Reidland High School. Heath, Lone Oak and Reidland students attending the consolidated McCracken County high School next fall will have a chance in coming weeks to review the school's new curriculum guide.
Guide gives glimpse of school curriculum
McCracken County High School’s new 82-page curriculum guide will be distributed to parents and students in coming weeks prior to January registration for the 2013-2014 school year. Guidance coun...
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New website matches volunteers, agencies
It’s not a dating site, but it may help people find their ideal match. The Volunteer Paducah Web site pairs volunteers with local nonprofit agencies — 30 have signed up so far — making volunteer...
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Zaveral "Zay" Jackson (right) talks with attorney Gary Haverstock before a hearing in Calloway Circuit Court on Wednesday. Jackson withdrew a guilty plea to charges associated with a vehicular assault case, and the case is headed back to a grand jury.
Zay Jackson case returns to square one
MURRAY — Zaveral “Zay” Jackson is throwing the dice and taking his chances with a grand jury after withdrawing a guilty plea to charges stemming from accusations that he hit two people with his car...
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Truck kills pedestrian
A Calloway County woman died Tuesday after she was struck by a pickup in a Murray parking lot, police said. Calloway County Coroner Rick Harris pronounced Janice Phelps, 56, dead at 7:34 p.m. at...
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LAUREL BLACK | The Sun Linda Thompson lights a candle in preparation for the 14th Annual International Survivors of Suicide Day at the Four Rivers Behavioral Health Center, 425 Broadway, on Saturday. The event, which included lunch and a web cast from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, was intended to help local suicide survivors connect and begin to heal.
Suicide survivors seek solace
Local survivors marked the 14th annual International Survivors of Suicide Day by gathering at the Four Rivers Behavioral Health Center, 425 Broadway, to hear words of comfort and watch a webcast pr...
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Changes at Honeywell on agenda at NRC forum
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a public meeting in Metropolis, Ill., to discuss a confirmatory order issued to the Honeywell Metropolis Works and the company’s actions to modify th...
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