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Livingston Livestock
LEDBETTER — Markets totaled 543 head. Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers traded steady to $1 higher; feeder heifers, unevenly steady. Slaughter cows and bulls traded $1 to $3 lower. ...
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Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today. n Fulton Fiscal Court — 9 a.m., judge-executive’s office.
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Eggners Ferry Bridge to reduce traffic lanes
Eggners Ferry Bridge traffic will be reduced to one lane next week. Keith Todd, Transportation Cabinet spokesman, said Arrow Electric will begin installing fiber optic cable in a conduit along t...
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Nov. 29 Michael C. Williams, 36, 5139
Nov. 29 Michael C. Williams, 36, 5139 Reidland Road, Paducah, fourth-degree domestic violence, minor injury; 90 days, two-year conditional discharge, drug and alcohol assessment, no contact with...
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Contributed photo An Army Corps of Engineers map shows proposed closures for the Barkley Dam. Fishing and parking stops are marked along Lake Barkley, where tailwaters will be closed 700-feet from the dam. The corps proposes closing the headwaters above the dam 400 feet from the structure.
Counties vow to fight corps Barkley Dam restrictions
Some of the best fishing waters at Land Between the Lakes may be closing to boaters in 2013, and county officials along Lake Barkley are preparing for a battle. The Army Corps of Engineers, base...
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The Lineup
Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, 442-8993. Learn to detect potential Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP. Heartland...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Nine units in the turbine room are displayed Thursday in the TVA Shawnee Fossil Plant. The units burn the coal, boil water and make the steam in which the nine units turn into electricity for the Shawnee customers in seven states.
Shawnee to continue operating despite uncertainty of USEC
Despite the uncertain future of its largest industrial customer, officials at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Shawnee Fossil Plant say they are not going anywhere anytime soon. Three representa...
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Dippin’ Dots receives tax incentives
Expanding companies across western Kentucky received welcome news Thursday with the release of state-approved tax incentives to local businesses, including Dippin’ Dots. The Kentucky Economic De...
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Man accused of sex with two minors
A Grand Rivers man was arrested Thursday after a Livingston County grand jury returned two separate indictments charging him with first-degree rape and first-degree rape of a victim under the age o...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun St. Mary High School basketball team member Elliott Bray (left) gives a pair of tennis shoes to Jayden Freeman that the 5th grader had had his eye on Thursday at the school. This is the second year St. Mary has donated shoes to the entire McNabb student body, reaching 558 pairs of shoes for the kids to enjoy this year.
Students get to put their best feet forward
A conversation between two friends about the need for a few pairs of athletic shoes grew to a drive helping hundreds of children across the area. McNabb Elementary School principal Gregory Ross ...
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Taylor
Five down, two to go
Jamie Taylor may now become a witness in the kidnapping and death of CaSondra Evrard after her guilty plea on Wednesday. McCracken Commonwealth Attorney Dan Boaz and assistant commonwealth attor...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Chad Beyer (center) stands in front of his architecture and interior design firm, i5 Design Group, on Wednesday minutes after flames and mist erupted in front of Beyer from a sidewalk grate. The switch failure cut power to 184 Paducah Power System customers along Broadway.
Failed switch knocks out power
Returning to his office from lunch with his wife, Chad Beyer heard two explosions Wednesday afternoon. Beyer and his wife stepped onto the sidewalk at Broadway and Fourth Street in front of his ...
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The season for holiday sweets
Sandra Smith, owner of The Chocolate Factory, sprinkles English toffee with chopped nuts on Wednesday at 109 Market House Square. The seasonal candy business brings in approximately three times the...
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun Brandon Knoth (left), Lyon County Attorney, and Wade White, Lyon County judge-executive, discuss plans to deal with FEMA flood maps at a Fiscal Court meeting on Wednesday afternoon in Eddyville. Fiscal Court gave Knoth and White the authority to take legal action to suspend the use of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps if FEMA refuses to suspend them itself.
Lyon officials table flood map decision
EDDYVILLE — It took some convincing from higher-ups in Washington, but the Lyon County Fiscal Court voted to table a decision to break away from federal flood maps for another day. Magistrates did,...
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Dunn
MSU’s Dunn not selected for Florida post
Florida’s education commissioner post was filled, but Murray State University President Randy Dunn is remaining in Kentucky. Dunn was a finalist to lead Florida’s public education system. Dunn i...
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