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Today Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Dr.; 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Report erro...
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City, county ask to put end to merger debate
With Paducah-McCracken County merger advocates still stinging from a resounding defeat at the polls last week, city and county leaders say they want to put the idea behind them and move on. On e...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Michael Terra throws a bowl to be donated to the Empty Bowls Project at a throw-a-thon at the Paducah School of Art, 409 Broadway, on Wednesday. The local artist and project organizer said he aims to make 1,500 bowls for this year's project, topping last year's 1,425.
Project seeks helping hands
Many people might find the thought of watching hundreds of ceramic bowls dull, but Victoria Terra calls it the best volunteer job ever. For the past two years, Terra has set up the bowls for the...
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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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