June 18, 2013
E-EDITION
SUBSCRIBE/RENEW
MANAGE PRINT SUBSCRIPTION
Region
Associated Press House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold "Hal" Rogers, R-Ky., talks about his role as a pain manager of the nation's fiscal difficulties Thursday in his office just off the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rogers and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., not shown, head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, are the two individuals most responsible for avoiding a government shutdown and taking the edge off automatic spending cuts called sequester.
Appropriators practice art of compromise
WASHINGTON — She’s an outspoken feminist and former social worker. He’s a cigar-smoking Kentucky lawyer. But Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican Rep. Harold Rogers have b...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Associated Press Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich departs his Chicago home in 2012 for Littleton, Colo., to begin his 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges. On the one-year anniversary that he began serving the prison sentence, Blagojevich's wife, Patti, says he is teaching Civil War history and learning to play the guitar.
Wife says Blagojevich teaching history, learning guitar in prison
CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is spending his time in federal prison teaching Civil War history and learning to play the guitar, while his attorneys work on an appeal, his wife sai...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks at Argonne National Laboratory Friday in Argonne, Ill. Obama urged Congress to authorize $200 million a year for research into clean energy technologies that can wean automobiles off oil.
Obama says cars must shift off oil
LEMONT, Ill. — Envisioning cars that can go “coast to coast without using a drop of oil,” President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to ex...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Casino: Politician lost $500,000 playing slots
CHICAGO — A powerful Chicago politician who earns just a five-figure salary gambled away nearly $500,000 playing slot machines over three years at a single casino, according to records entered into...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Email exchange hints at Missouri GOP rift
ST. LOUIS — A rift appears to be growing between the new and veteran factions of the Missouri Republican Party. Missouri Republican chairman Ed Martin sent an email this week chastising what he ...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
East Tennessee experiencing increase in armadillo numbers
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The armadillo invasion of East Tennessee has gone more quickly than expected. Timothy Gaudin, who is a biology professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, says ...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Woman’s vulgar note results in charges
MOUNT PLEASANT, Tenn. — A Middle Tennessee woman is facing charges after police saidshe displayed a vulgar message about an officer who arrested her daughter on a drug charge. The Daily Herald r...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Associated Press Protesters gather on the plaza across from the state Capitol Friday in Nashville, Tenn. The demonstrators were speaking out against a University of Tennessee plan to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland.
School proposes fracking on own land
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the en...
Mar 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
State will display superintendent payroll, evaluations
FRANKFORT — The public will soon be able to view the full compensation packages of Kentucky’s superintendents as well as their performance evaluations on the education department’s website, state o...
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Henderson jobless rate higher than year ago
Henderson County’s unemployment rate in January was higher than one year earlier, reflecting in part the shutdown of Patriot Coal Corp.’s two mines here. The jobless rate in January was 8.0 perc...
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Weather
Click for Paducah, Kentucky Forecast
Sponsored By:
National Video Feed