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Oklahoma prison escapee resentenced to death
SHEPHERDSVILLE — A convicted murderer received a death sentence on Wednesday for the third time in the 1991 shooting death of a Kentucky distillery worker during a multistate crime spree. Michae...
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Report: Woman shot by deputy had used meth CLEVELAND, Tenn. — A toxicology report shows that a Florida woman who was fatally shot by an East Tennessee deputy after slashing him and trying to dri...
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Leader of violent fake ID ring pleads guilty in Va
Leader of fake ID ring pleads guilty RICHMOND, Va. — The leader of a violent, multistate fake-identification ring pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges Tuesday as a trial began for on...
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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State applies for no-child waiver
LOUISVILLE — Citing the strength of historic public education reforms already under way in Kentucky, the state on Monday submitted its application asking to be relieved of some requirements of the ...
Nov 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marion prison on lockdown after fights MARION, Ill. — A federal prison in southern Illinois is on lockdown after weekend fights left about a dozen inmates with minor injuries. No workers at t...
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County’s clocks require upkeep
CHARLESTON, Ill. — Monty Walters faces many steps for the fall time change at Coles County Courthouse. Adjusting the time on the four-faced clock atop the courthouse is not a push-button operati...
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Somali refugee in driver’s seat
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Somali refugee who fled civil war in his home country and became an American citizen may never know why the federal government confiscated the credentials that allowed him to ear...
Nov 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some foster kids in Kentucky need help after turning 18
LEXINGTON — Evicted and struggling to save money to buy a car, 19-year-old Clairessa Johnson often feels hopeless. Johnson and her infant daughter have been staying with a friend and she’s savin...
Nov 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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UK will have to pay back $7.6M to endowments
LEXINGTON — The University of Kentucky will pay back $7.6 million after dipping into endowment principal to fund Bucks for Brains, a program that provides matching state dollars for certain private...
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Associated Press Chattanooga Police Sgt. Darrell Whitfield, with the agency's Crime Scene Unit, demonstrates Nov. 3 how its new Leica Scan Station C10 can be used to pinpoint the location where a shooter stood while firing using 3-D modeling. Its new scanner produces three-dimensional images that reconstruct crime scenes and provide a way to acquire accurate measurements without revisiting a scene.
Law enforcement device shows crime scene in 3D
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — New three-dimensional technology will soon allow Chattanooga police to take jurors on a visual trip past the yellow crime scene tape, to the scene of a fatal shooting. The C...
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