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Search continues for missing mother DYERSBURG, Tenn. — Authorities in West Tennessee are searching by helicopter and on the ground for a missing mother of four after her vehicle was found abando...
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Songwriter Anderson dead in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Liz Anderson, who wrote country music hits for Merle Haggard, has died in Nashville. She was 81. Anderson, who died Monday at St. Thomas Hospital, was the mother of singer Lyn...
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More suits could be filed in ash spill case KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An attorney for property owners who are suing the Tennessee Valley Authority for damages from its 2008 coal ash spill has told a fe...
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Court to hear atheist’s case over landmark
CHICAGO — A Chicago federal appeals court is to hear an appeal by an atheist wanting to force the return of a state grant that helped pay for the restoration of an 11-story cross considered a south...
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Challengers bash Beshear on economy
LEXINGTON — Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear faced sharp criticism on economic policies from two challengers Monday night in the final televised debate of the general election campaign. Republican ...
Nov 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Candidates await last debate
FRANKFORT — Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear is scheduled for a rare debate with two well-known Kentucky politicians who want to take his job in the Nov. 8 election. The 90-minute faceoff, being br...
Oct 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suspect kills self after stop in Illinois BENTON, Ill. — Police say a Kentucky man wanted on a charge of attempted murder killed himself after police in Illinois stopped his truck on Interstate ...
Oct 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky mine had highwall citation
CENTERTOWN — The Kentucky surface coal mine where two workers were killed by falling rock was cited earlier this year over the stability of a highwall. Investigators said Darrel Winstead, 47, an...
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Associated Press Bernard "Buster" Cooper of Florence holds a printout of a 1972 photo of himself at an airport in Miami where he drove a stair truck to a hijacked airliner with an FBI agent who delivered $1 million in cash to the hijacker. In the photo, Cooper, dressed in a bathing suit, is at right with his hands in the air. The hijacker suspect, George Wright, was arrested in Portugal last month after nearly 40 years as a fugitive.
Man recalls 1972 hijack scene
CINCINNATI — The capture of an American fugitive in Portugal has a northern Kentucky retiree reliving the day when he put on too-small swim trunks to help deliver an old suitcase bulging with $1 mi...
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Agents follow inmate’s guide to pot fields
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — The confiscated writings of a jail inmate in Clarksville led drug agents to a crop of marijuana plants after a deputy realized the inmate had provided detailed directions to se...
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