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Police seek witnesses in nightclub shooting
JACKSON, Tenn. — Police gathered clues from surveillance video, social media websites and witnesses Monday as they sought to identify those responsible for a weekend shooting at a Tennessee nightcl...
Feb 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Public financing urged in Supreme Court races
FRANKFORT — Fearing wealthy donors might unduly influence Supreme Court races, a Kentucky lawmaker is pushing a longshot proposal that would create a public financing system for would-be justices o...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Retired Illinois teachers could see benefits cut
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn wants to eliminate the state’s contributions toward health insurance benefits for retired school teachers and community college professors, according to a publishe...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Study: More Tennessee children live in poverty
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new study found that one in every eight Tennessee children is growing up in a high poverty community and one-fourth of Tennessee children live in poverty. The data snapshot ...
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Book showcases Lincoln’s Illinois
PEORIA, Ill. — The Illinois Abraham Lincoln knew was a land of prairies and wildflowers, creeks and rivers, where dirt roads connected towns and farms. “There were no bridges back then at all,” ...
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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State told to expedite release of child records
FRANKFORT — A judge has ordered state officials to provide two years of records in child-abuse and neglect cases in 90 days to the state’s two largest newspapers. The order from Franklin Circuit...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Supreme Court: Lawmakers to run in old districts
FRANKFORT — Legislative candidates will have to run in decade-old districts in this year’s elections, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Friday afternoon. Chief Justice John D. Minton, writing for...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Getting help from the big kids Estes Elementary School student Jeremy Garcia Sanchez (lower right) measures the depth of the corn seed he planted as Apollo High School FFA volunteer Jacob Glenn (left) hands over a seed to plant for Warren Sprankle during Ag Day in the school gym Friday in Owensboro.
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Kentucky police seizes drug that looks like lollipop MOREHEAD — Police in northeastern Kentucky have seized three dozen doses of fentanyl, a pain killer that sometimes comes in doses that look...
Feb 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press People continue to clean up tornado debris Jan. 24 in Center Point, Ala. Tornado season is just about here and forecasters believe twisters are possible Thursday and Friday.
Forecasting difficult as tornado season looms
WASHINGTON — Tornado season is starting, but don’t ask meteorologists how bad it will be this spring and summer. They don’t know. They’re having a hard enough time getting a fix on the likely pa...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Titan Tire to supply tires for Caterpillar Titan Tire to supply tires for Caterpillarp., a subsidiary of Titan International Inc., has announced a multi-year supply contract with Caterpillar for...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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