May 20, 2013
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DUPLICATE BRIDGE
Paducah Duplicate Bridge 1723 Kentucky Ave. The Paducah Duplicate Bridge Club is offering bridge lessons each Tuesday morning beginning at 11:30 at the Bridge Center. A sanctioned novice game...
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Gunshot kills MSU student
Clayton Law, a Murray State student and Army veteran, died Sunday morning from a gunshot to the head. Calloway County coroner Ricky Harris said Law, a 23-year-old from Elizabethtown, was in a ho...
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Artists return from trip abroad
Local artists return to Paducah inspired and awakened by the sights, sounds and artistic camaraderie they found in Austria. Five Paducah-based artists were chosen, based on merit, to participate...
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County comp plan could spark issues
With more than a decade passed since McCracken County’s comprehensive plan has been reviewed, officials say the county stands at risk of legal challenges regarding its contents. Wayne Elliott, p...
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Yeiser Art Center to hold opening reception for exhibition
The Yeiser Art Center will hold an opening reception for its two-person exhibition of Armin Mühsam and Lori Larusso from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Mühsam’s painted landscapes are meant to quest...
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Contributed photo Clayton Spiceland (center) and his wife Lauren, along with his mother Cheryl (left), sister, Krista, and father, Troy (right), pose for a picture during the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Match Day Ceremony on March 15 at Keeneland in Lexington. Spiceland, the first in his family to graduate from college, was accepted for a residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Palma native lands residency at clinic
Even as a youngster, running around his family’s rural home in Palma, Clayton Spiceland knew he wanted to be a doctor.  It didn’t matter that no one in his family had ever gone off to college, m...
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Sun to release book commemorating new high school
This summer, a project five years in the making will be completed. What once was a dream — the construction of a new 300,000-square-foot, $62 million high school — will become a reality as high sch...
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The Lineup
Monday Woodmen of the World Lodge No. 6002 & No. 57, 6 p.m., St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 2701 Broadway, Paducah.   n n n Items for the Lineup must be received in writing five days in a...
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Kids ‘Discover the Dinosaurs’
Part museum and part theme park, Discover the Dinosaurs was held this weekend at the Paducah Convention Center. The educational event geared toward kids opened Friday and will conclude today. Ta...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Graves County Deputy Jeremy Prince climbs into his patrol car Friday afternoon in Mayfield. Prince is one of 13 sworn officers employed by Graves County, which has a population of more than 37,000 and is one of the largest counties in the state.
Police staffing woes force change in policing techniques
Dropping numbers of law enforcement officers and rising crime rates across western Kentucky are alarming to most people, especially McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden. “There’s problems with re...
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ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun Faye Dodd (left) admires the Derby hat of Wendy Lovett during a party to celebrate the 139th Kentucky Derby on Saturday at the Murray Banquet Center in Murray. Proceeds went to the Gentry House, a homeless and emergency shelter for Calloway County residents with children.
Derby party benefits Murray’s homeless
MURRAY — A local organization turned a Kentucky tradition into an opportunity to help the community’s homeless. The Gentry House, an emergency and homeless shelter for families with children, he...
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Heavy rain delays planting season
Twice as much rain as this time last year, and water in the soil at a surplus level, means many local farmers are seeing delays in corn planting. Less than 5 percent of crops have been planted i...
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LAUREL BLACK | The Sun Justin Colson of Marshall County prepares a rib dinner Friday at Aurora Bar-B-Que, 15927 U.S. 68 E. The restaurant closed after a fire last September, and Colson helped owners Rita and Gary McKnight clean, repaint, and repair the building in time for its reopening.
Aurora barbecue restaurant reopens
AURORA — An Aurora barbecue restaurant opened for business Friday after a fire closed it last September. Owners Gary and Rita McKnight spent the winter and early spring scrubbing, repainting and...
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NFL players visit Paducah
Anthony Daniels, 7, and Joe Casey, 9, pose with Tennessee Titans players George Wilson and Delanie Walker on Friday at Shoe Carnival in Paducah.
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World War II veteran’s return to Paducah delayed one year
It may be a year before the remains of William T. Carneal, a World War II veteran from Paducah, are returned home to his family. Carneal’s remains were found April in Saipan with dog tags and a ...
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