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Lawmakers want welfare drug tests
FRANKFORT — Legislation that would require welfare recipients to be tested for drug use is gaining popularity among Kentucky lawmakers, more than 50 of whom have signed on as co-sponsors. It doe...
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Foreign students increasing in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE — The number of foreign students attending Kentucky colleges is growing. There were 5,111 foreign students enrolled at higher education institutions in Kentucky during the 2010-11 aca...
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Associated Press The handcuffed hands of Kentucky State Penitentiary death row inmate Randy Haight, 59, are shown on Oct. 26 at the Eddyville. State Penitentiary. Kentucky's death row is aging and it's costing the state. The 35 condemned inmates have an average age of 50, which is 14 years older than inmates not condemned to death. While the state doesn't keep separate statistics for the death row population, medical expenses for the Department of Corrections rose each year since 2008, from $49.1 million that year to $54.8 million in fiscal year 2011.
Age catching death row
EDDYVILLE — Randy Haight wakes every morning to sore hands and a creaking body. The 59-year-old blames the pain on arthritis — something that he describes as rampant at his home for the last 17 yea...
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Big Brothers Big Sisters in central Ky. may close
Tebow headlining Graves event Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is the slated guest at the Graves County Eagle Foundation’s “Night with a Champion” set for April 20. Event tickets go on sa...
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St. Jude marks 50th anniversary
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Actor and philanthropist Danny Thomas' dream of a day when no child would die in the dawn of life continues to be the driving force behind St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, wh...
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Many manage parents from afar
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she’ll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What i...
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Associated Press Ross Elementary fifth-grade students Juilanna Bell (clockwise from left), Mollie Weinberg, Courtney Turner and Mckenzie Thompson work on a handmade sign Wednesday in Creve Coeur, Mo. The sign will be used when St. Louis hosts a "Welcome Home the Heroes from Iraq Day" on Saturday with a noontime parade through downtown to welcome veterans of the war in Iraq.
St. Louis hosts end-of-war parade
ST. LOUIS — Since the Iraq War ended there has been little fanfare for the veterans returning home. No ticker-tape parades. No massive, flag-waving public celebrations. So, two friends from St. ...
Jan 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky man hopes to give away 1 million baseball cards to kids
DANVILLE — A central Kentucky man is swinging for the fences — hoping to collect and give away 1 million baseball cards to children who have very little. Jerry Milburn of Lawrenceburg started th...
Jan 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Eastern Kentucky school battling bedbugs LONDON — Laurel County health and school officials are trying to eliminate bedbugs at an elementary school. Teachers first noticed the insects before ...
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Lawmakers work to postpone filing deadline
FRANKFORT — Congressional candidates would have an additional week to file for election under an agreement reached on Friday between the House and Senate. Negotiators trying to work out an agree...
Jan 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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