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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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Kentucky man falls in industrial dryer, dies LOUISVILLE — A deputy coroner says a 55-year-old Louisville man has died from injuries suffered when he fell into a running industrial dryer. Jeff...
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Court upholds ‘Almighty God’ reference in law
LOUISVILLE — In Kentucky, Almighty God may legally be credited with the state’s homeland security. A split Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the reference to God in the law creating the...
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2 killed in mine collapse
CENTERTOWN — Two workers were killed Friday when their truck was crushed under falling rock at a surface coal mine in western Kentucky. Rescuers worked most of the morning to reach the men under...
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Most jobless rates fall in Kentucky
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Office of Employment and Training is reporting that jobless rates fell in 72 Kentucky counties in September. That was a bit of good news in a state that still is struggl...
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State releases investigation into man’s death FRANKFORT — A state investigation has found that a brain-injured man who died after disappearing from a personal care home in Falmouth wasn’t checke...
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Giuliani endorses P’Pool for AG
LOUISVILLE — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took sides in Kentucky’s race for attorney general on Wednesday, praising Republican challenger Todd P’Pool for his eagerness to join the legal...
Oct 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beshear defends record to county leaders
LOUISVILLE — Gov. Steve Beshear touted his stewardship of state government in tough economic times in a speech Wednesday, telling an influential gathering of county officials from across Kentucky t...
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