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Challengers bash Beshear on economy
LEXINGTON — Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear faced sharp criticism on economic policies from two challengers Monday night in the final televised debate of the general election campaign. Republican ...
Nov 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Candidates await last debate
FRANKFORT — Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear is scheduled for a rare debate with two well-known Kentucky politicians who want to take his job in the Nov. 8 election. The 90-minute faceoff, being br...
Oct 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suspect kills self after stop in Illinois BENTON, Ill. — Police say a Kentucky man wanted on a charge of attempted murder killed himself after police in Illinois stopped his truck on Interstate ...
Oct 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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