May 25, 2013
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Traffic stop, police chase ends in drug arrest
Caleb Scronce, 21, of Paducah man was arrested Thursday afternoon following a Hovekamp Road traffic stop and a police chase. Officer Nathan Jaimet reported that he initiated the stop after he sa...
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Two searches yield four arrests for drugs, guns
Four arrests followed two separate searches that turned up drugs and guns. The McCracken County Sheriff’s Department searched two residences on Wednesday: one about 8 a.m. at 422 S. 17th St., Pa...
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Contributed photo Paducah police K-9 Fox obeys commands to sit next to items found after a routine traffic stop on Thursday morning in Paducah. One man was arrested and charged with trafficking methamphetamine.
Search reveals methamphetamine worth $8,400
A Paducah police K-9 unit found more than 3 ounces of methamphetamine and $1,054 Thursday morning after a traffic stop. Officer Lofton Rowley said he saw Shaun E. Hunter, 29, of Salem speeding o...
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Contributed by the United States Enrichment Corporation An aerial view of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site 15 miles west of Paducah shows its expansive perimeter.
DOE seeks proposals
The U.S. Department of Energy sent a clear message that the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site, and its uranium inventory, is available for business. DOE posted a formal document — an expressi...
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Anthony L. Wright (left) speaks with Bill Murphy, former director of the University of Kentucky's College of Engineering extended campus, in Paducah on Thursday morning at the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce's monthly breakfast meeting inside the Julian Carroll Convention Center. Wright, an account executive with Harshaw Trane who formerly worked in economic development in Lexington, spoke to the breakfast crowd about recruiting minority businesses and a town's online image.
Google images mean more than photos
It’s a question not only confined to job applicants and businesses: What’s Google say about you? Metropolitan cities, smaller towns and their economic development organizations should know and l...
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun McCracken County Emergency Management Director Paul Carter types out a test alert on the county's new alert system. The website, McCrackenAlert.com, will send both text and voice alerts to anyone who signs up.
Website service bolsters alerts for McCracken
It is on the eve of the most active storm season for western Kentucky that McCracken County officials launched McCrackenAlert.com. The website will add to the area’s wealth of weather and emergency...
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Correction
The annual Chinese New Year Celebration at West Kentucky Community & Technical College will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday in the Clemens Fine Arts Center. The wrong date for the celebration was ...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Michelle Simmons, U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, delivers mail to a house Wednesday on Madison Street. The USPS is considering discontinuing regular mail services on Saturday; delivery of packages would still be available.
Saturday delivery might cease
Longer delivery times and fewer employee hours loom as the immediate effects in Paducah if the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to discontinue Saturday mail delivery. The Postal Service said Wedne...
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Loans to support regional development
MAYFIELD — For the first time in six years, the Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization is divvying out cash for regional development projects. The group, which runs under the umbrella of the ...
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Luna retrial continues today
Prosecutors will pick back up today in Trigg Circuit Court with their case against a Marshall County man charged with murder and arson stemming from the 2007 death of 46-year-old Debra Hendrickson....
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Members of the Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization finance committee and others meet at the Purchase Area Development District office in Mayfield on Wednesday. The group approved loan requests for four regional development projects during the meeting.
PED to work with PACRO sans contract
MAYFIELD — Paducah Economic Development officials will continue working with the group tasked to re-industrialize the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site to help save its endangered workforce desp...
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The Lineup
Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive. Learn to detect potential Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP. 442-8993. Purchase ...
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Sun files Former Brookport Mayor Judy Askew sits at her desk in 2011. Askew resigned during Tuesday night's city council meeting, citing a hardened relationship with the city's aldermen.
Brookport mayor submits resignation
In person, Judy Askew said she stepped down as mayor of Brookport, Ill., for health reasons. On paper, however, it was a different story. Askew resigned Tuesday night at Brookport’s City Council...
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Man accused of staging burglary
Kevil resident Ray Leigh was arrested Wednesday on a charge of falsely reporting an incident after police found evidence that he had staged a burglary at a relative’s residence. McCracken sherif...
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College, law enforcement community mourn loss
An active member of the western Kentucky law enforcement community died Tuesday in Graves County.  Tye Jackson, 36, served as the director of campus security for Mid-Continent University in Mayf...
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