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Senior keeps peace at UT sporting events
By MELISSA PRIODE Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — No ticket at a University of Tennessee football game means no getting past 96-year-old Jean Akers Ellis. For the past 10 year, Ellis, ...
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Bible Belt towns consider going ‘wet’
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press BARBOURVILLE, — In this Appalachian college town where socially conservative views are bedrocks of life, some people want to do what was once unthinkable: ...
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Official working to stop move
OWENSBORO — An official in western Kentucky is asking the city of Owensboro to put up $3 million to start a project that would move and expand a bluegrass museum before it moves to Tennessee. Ow...
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Lawmaker introduces social media bill in Illinois Senate
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois state representative from Chicago has introduced legislation in Springfield that would ban businesses from requiring job applicants to divulge their social media pas...
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University heads discuss cuts
FRANKFORT — The presidents of the state’s leading research universities met with lawmakers on a House education panel Wednesday about millions of dollars in proposed cuts to post-secondary educatio...
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Bourbon industry booms despite recession FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear says Kentucky’s bourbon industry has undergone its largest expansion since prohibition over the past two years, despite an...
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Debate on gambling heating up
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear accused Senate President David Williams on Tuesday of “intimidations and threats” against pro-gambling lawmakers seeking to get a constitutional amendment on the Nove...
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Kentucky education officials floating foundation proposal
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Department of Education will propose this week that the state create a foundation specifically to fund innovative public school projects to help students achieve. The de...
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Associated Press Steam escapes from Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant March 16, 2011 in Byron, Ill. A nuclear reactor at the plant shut down on Monday after losing power. Steam is being vented to reduce pressure according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.
Nuclear reactor loses power
BYRON, Ill. — A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and feder...
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Associated Press Police officers, teachers, caregivers and other rank-and-file public servants join Illinois AFL-CIO members in October 2011 to protest the state's pension situation at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Illinois government must cut pension and health care costs or see its backlog of unpaid bills nearly quadruple to $35 billion, the Civic Federation warns in a report that highlights the challenges facing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn as he prepares to deliver his State of the State address.
Quinn looks at teacher pensions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn, responding to a dire new report on state finances Monday, said more clearly than ever that he wants schools and universities to help pay for their employees’ ret...
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