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Paducah police, mall partner for training exercise
Paducah police will hold a tactical training exercise involving simulated gunmen inside Kentucky Oaks Mall after the mall’s closing on Sunday. The scenario is designed to prepare officers for th...
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Michael Joseph Burke looks at two people in the courtroom audience during a hearing Tuesday in Calloway Circuit Court in Murray as his attorney, Cheri Riedel, works out a date for a competency hearing. Burke is charged with murder stemming from the stabbing death of his mother July 9.
Competency hearing set
MURRAY — On the heels of the completion of a psychological evaluation, a Murray man accused of stabbing and killing his mother appeared in Calloway Circuit Court on Tuesday. Michael Joseph Burke...
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun Sandra Wilson and Allan Rhodes, who were elected as city commissioners in last week's election, are welcomed to the commission chambers by Mayor Bill Paxton during Tuesday's commission meeting. Wilson and Rhodes were in the audience for the entire meeting, and expressed thanks to voters for electing them.
College requests more funding for art school
The realization of the city’s dream of a Paducah School of Art Lower Town campus may require more of a financial commitment than originally planned. The city initially pledged to pay $75,000 per...
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The Lineup
Today Lone Oak Kiwanis, 7 a.m., Lone Oak Little Castle. 217-0402.   Papermill Retirees, Spouses, and Friends, 8:30 a.m., The Parlor in Lone Oak. 554-3492.   Disabled American Veterans, M...
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State police seek clues in 1985 slaying
State troopers are asking for help warming up a case that went cold, as the slaying of a Clinton grocer 27 years ago remains unsolved. Duane W. Caldwell died Jan. 7, 1985, after a man shot him d...
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Veterans Day essay winners additions
Winners in the 2012 Veterans Day Essay contest sponsored by the Paducah Parks Services and the Daughters of the American Revolution omitted from the list in Monday’s paper include grades K-2: n ...
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McCracken District Court
May 1 Dale W. Lynn, 28, 5121, Nace Lane, Paducah, theft by failure to make disposition; 45 days conditional discharge for two years. Pay $585 in fines. Jared Courtney, 26, 5056 Old Mayfield R...
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Fiscal Court studying intersection request
With traffic studies and public comments in hand, Fiscal Court commissioners will decide soon whether to move forward with a requested closure of a Y-shaped intersection near the new McCracken Coun...
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Jerry Walker Jr. (left) talks with attorneys Richard and Dennis Null before pleading guilty and entering into a pre-trial diversion agreement to six tampering with evidence charges Tuesday in Calloway Circuit Court. The charges stem from a series of letters Walker wrote in the weeks and months after a fatal 1998 Murray State University dorm fire.
Walker pleads guilty to tampering charges in dorm fire
MURRAY — Since 1999, Jerry Walker Jr. has admitted he wrote a series of letters to himself and other students in the weeks and months following a fatal 1998 Murray State University dorm fire. On...
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Lighting up Broadway
Paducah Parks Department employees David Jones (left) and Glen Woodford string a net of Christmas lights over sidewalk shrubs on Tuesday on Broadway. The men and their workers will assemble lights ...
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Agenda
The agenda is a listing of government meetings today. n Paducah Riverfront Development Authority — called meeting, 1:15 p.m., City Hall.
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2 to be tried together in Bouie case
Donald Fowler and his girlfriend, Lindsay Clapp, will be tried together next November in the fatal shooting of a Memphis man outside a Paducah apartment complex. Fowler is charged with murder an...
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Food pantries struggle before holiday
LONDON — Food pantries in southern and western Kentucky are saying they don’t have enough supply to meet the growing demand — and Thanksgiving is approaching fast. The Come-Unity Cooperative Car...
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Maxon Road wreck injures 2 drivers
A wreck Tuesday afternoon at Maxon Road and U.S. 60 sent two drivers to a hospital, according to police. Betty Davis, 73, of Burton, Mich., attempted to cross U.S. 60 on Maxon Road about 4:15 p....
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun Paducah Tilghman senior Joeshawn Starks hands a balloon to Landon Hinz, 4, during intermission of Texas Roadhouse's "Stomping for a Cure" event Tuesday at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. Starks and other Paducah Tilghman football players ran a booth at the event, which featured nine dance teams performing to raise money for breast cancer charities.
Teams stomp for cancer cure
A lot of reasons led to the Lone Oak High School cheerleading squad participating in Tuesday night’s “Stomping for a Cure” event at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. Head coach Beth Poole, w...
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