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Today Military Order of the Purple Heart for Western Kentucky, Chapter 585, monthly meeting, 9 a.m., Smokies Restaurant, Fifth Avenue, Calvert City. Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Legion Post 2...
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   Coming Sunday: The battle lines over legal hemp crops in Kentucky are quickly forming
   Coming Sunday: The battle lines over legal hemp crops in Kentucky are quickly forming.
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3 face charges after drug complaints
An investigation of complaints regarding illegal drug activity led to charges against four men Friday in McCracken County. Detectives with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department received two ...
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Paducah arrests lead to drug charges
Paducah police arrested a local man charged with a federal drug offense. According to a news release from Paducah police, Paul B. Wilks Jr., 31, of Paducah was arrested Thursday afternoon on cha...
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CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun Lourdes patient Tony Reck sits in one of the hospital's newest orthopedic recovery rooms. Reck was one of the first patients transferred to the fifth-floor wing to recover from hip surgery.
Lourdes debuts new recovery rooms
Tony Reck sits in his new recovery room, high up on the fifth floor of Lourdes hospital, resting. The like-new wing, featuring 20 orthopedic recovery rooms, is painted in soothing beiges and outfit...
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MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun George Luna testifies in his own defense on the fourth day of his retrial in Trigg Circuit Court on Thursday. Luna is charged with murder and arson stemming from the September 2007 death of Debra Hendrickson in Benton.
Luna provides testimony in retrial
CADIZ — George Luna’s defense team says a story of unrequited love led to what he deems the accidental death of friend Debra Hendrickson. Jurors received a first look at Luna’s version on Thursd...
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The Lineup
Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive; 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Repor...
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Lourdes opens newly renovated recovery suites
Post-surgical recovery is all about rest while the body’s on the mend. With different operations bringing their own hurdles in the path of patient recuperation, Lourdes hospital sought recovery ...
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Multiple vehicle crash injures 3 on I-24
Three Marshall County residents were injured Thursday morning in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 24. An Indiana man was also involved, but not injured. McCracken County Sheriff’s Deputy John...
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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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