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Lightning likely cause of church fire
OWENSBORO — A western Kentucky fire chief says lightning accompanying a storm likely caused a blaze that gutted the auditorium of a church in Owensboro and cut off power to the neighborhood, includ...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this March 8, 2013 photo, George Morris of Sikeston, Mo. poses in front of the yacht he purchased and is keeping on a small pond near his home. The Sikeston Standard Democrat reports that Morris saw the movie "Secondhand Lions" and began trying to recreate a portion of the movie in which one of the characters floats a yacht in a pond. (AP Photo/Standard)
Man buys yacht, puts it on pond
SIKESTON, Mo. — George Morris bought a yacht, but he’s not setting sail on the high seas. He’s keeping it on a small pond near his southeast Missouri home in Sikeston. The Sikeston Standard Demo...
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Nashville Symphony mired in bond debt
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Nashville Symphony is in danger of defaulting on $102 million in bonds that were used to build the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Symphony CEO and President Alan Valentine ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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