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Associated Press Gov. Steve Beshear joined House Speaker Greg Stumbo, right, and other top state officials to push for legislation to help limit the supplies of drugs to addicts.
Beshear calls for coordinated effort on drug abuse
FRANKFORT — Prescription drug abuse deserves the same level of attention in the Kentucky legislature as some other issues that have captured most of the headlines over the past month, Gov. Steve Be...
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Crews recover body from Ohio River
Crews recover body from river OWENSBORO — Police are investigating after a woman’s body was pulled from a sport utility vehicle that was submerged in the Ohio River. Daviess County Sheriff Ke...
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Kentucky judge weighs legality of redistricting
FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s filing deadline to run for legislative seats became a moving target again on Monday when a judge did not immediately rule on a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ne...
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Audio recording law under scrutiny
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tiawanda Moore didn’t think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two Chicago police officers she says were try...
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Associated Press Malcolm Burnley stands with a copy of the 1961 edition of the Brown University Herald in the John Hay Library on campus in Providence, R.I. Burnley discovered a long-lost tape recording of a 1961 address by Malcolm X while combing through archived editions of the Herald conducting research for a class.
Student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diploma...
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Missouri muffs chance for presidential primary
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri is spending an estimated $7 million for what amounts to one of the largest public opinion polls of the Republican presidential race. Too bad few people seem to care. ...
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Tea party candidates focus on state legislature
FRANKFORT — Nearly a dozen tea party candidates, including one of Kentucky’s most recognizable fiscal conservatives, have set their sights on state legislative seats up for election this year. L...
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Schools fear Quinn idea to shift pension costs
By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Making local school districts pick up the employers’ portion of teacher retirement benefits could save more than $1.3 billion a year for ...
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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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