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Traffic to be restricted on Cairo bridge
Repairs on the U.S. 51 Ohio River bridge, also known as the Cairo bridge, will restrict commercial traffic this summer and fall. Commercial trucks, tour buses and other large vehicles will be re-ro...
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Moped crash injures teen
A Paducah teen was injured Wednesday evening in a collision on Benton Road. Deputies with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched at 5 p.m. to the crash at the intersection wit...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McCracken District Court
March 14 Cynthia Tilford, 54, 224 Westside Dr., Paducah, harassing communications; 30 days, serve two, two-year conditional discharge, no contact with victim or victim’s family, pay $210. R...
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Boy, 13, accused of assault
A 13-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree assault after an incident Sunday evening on the playground of Morgan Elementary School, and the child making the claim of being attacked has return...
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Kathleen Fox | The Sun Clyde Stevens (right) and Gerald Wells look over information related to options for the future of the Cairo bridge at a public meeting Tuesday at The Ballard Center in La Center. The primary options include rehabilitating the existing bridge, replacing the bridge at its current location or building a new bridge in a different location.
Residents review Cairo bridge options
LA CENTER — Local residents had two opportunities this week to voice their thoughts on several options related to the fate of the Cairo Bridge. Opinions varied but the bottom line was that the agin...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Kelsey Thompson, a survivor of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia, works at a computer terminal at the American Cancer Society office in Paducah on Tuesday. Thompson's experience as a cancer survivor fueled her desire to work with the cancer society.
100 years, and still fighting strong
Essie Bailey knows firsthand how advances in cancer treatment and research have changed in the past century. The 87-year-old Murray resident has battled breast cancer twice. The diagnoses were s...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Walgreens clerk testifies about robbery
Paducah Walgreens clerk Sydney Moore told a McCracken County jury on Tuesday that she was very scared that she would be shot during the early morning hours of Aug. 7 when two men held her up at gun...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Region responds to tragedy
As an Oklahoma community reeled in the ruins from a monstrous tornado, people and agencies in western Kentucky on Tuesday began looking for ways to help. Mike and Marie Lyons, husband and wife f...
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Speaking from experience
BY ANTHONY JAMES news@hammondstar.com Throughout the year, generators don’t get much attention – until the power goes out and you need it to keep freezers cold, cell phones charged and the l...
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McCracken District Court
March 7 Jerry E. Purvis, 28, 3553 Clinton Road, Lot 13, Paducah, second-degree wanton endangerment; 14 days, cooperate with DCBS, pay $710. March 12 Roger D. Copeland, 50, 1450 Said Ro...
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Alleged assault raises questions about bullying
As a Paducah boy recovers at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital from an alleged assault, his family wonders if schools could be doing more to prevent such situations.   Twelve-year-old Ian Poole was v...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Car thefts lead to arrest
A Paducah man was arrested Monday in connection with thefts from vehicles after an investigation by the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department. Tyler R. Cope, 21, of Hays Avenue was arrested on t...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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House backs dam fish bill
The Freedom to Fish Act passed in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, one step closer toward placing a two-year moratorium on the Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to place barriers at Cumberlan...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former road worker faces two-year sentence
A former McCracken County Road Department employee faces two years in jail after entering a guilty plea Monday to charges stemming from allegations that he traded stolen county property for prescri...
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Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today. n Ballard Fiscal Court — 9 a.m., courthouse. n Calloway Fiscal Court — 5 p.m., Judicial Building, district court room. n Carlisle Fisc...
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