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Program aims to help students
LEXINGTON — A new program at the University of Kentucky aims to help first-generation college students meet challenges and stay in school. The First Generation Initiatives was spawned from a pro...
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Associated Press Holmes High School English teacher Angela Turnick performs a rap song as she walks on desks in her 10th grade classroom during a visit by Ron Clark in Covington in January. Clark is a nationally known teacher and author who has made a name for himself by raising school test scores through creative methods.
Unique methods helps students at Holmes
COVINGTON — Angie Turnick was teaching her sophomore English students about the elements of making an argument. Rather than lecture, she opted to turn on the boom box, jump on the tables and dance ...
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Boomers hit the books
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Susan Boase never aspired to be an administrative assistant, but she was still devastated when she was laid off from her job at a drug and alcohol treatment center two years ago....
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Work on Wolf Creek dam ‘on schedule’
SOMERSET — Federal officials say repair work on a massive south-central Kentucky dam is “on schedule” to be completed by the end of next year. David Hendrix, who is the repair project manager fo...
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McDonald’s strip-search hoax turned into movie
LOUISVILLE — The perverse tale of blind obedience to authority first unfolded eight years ago in a McDonald’s restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky., just south of Louisville, when an 18-year-old empl...
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House approves task force to rewrite state’s juvenile code
FRANKFORT — Kentucky lawmakers in the House on Friday approved a measure to create a task force to rewrite the state’s juvenile code. Sponsor Rep. John Tilley told The Courier-Journal the goal i...
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Lawmakers look to hike speed on US 68 HOPKINSVILLE — Two lawmakers from southwestern Kentucky want to raise the speed limit on U.S. 68 to 60 mph. Reps. John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville, and Myron ...
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Inmate beats odds, gets trial over eye injury
LOUISVILLE — Johnny Davis thought the cataract surgery he had in 2005 would solve problems with his left eye. Instead, complications after the procedure only made life worse for the 57-year-old ser...
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Lawmakers approve congressional redistricting
FRANKFORT — Lawmakers approved a congressional redistricting plan for Kentucky on Friday, a day after an attorney went to court to ask a judge to take over the issue. The House voted 58-26 for t...
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Schools to track students’ body mass index
LOUISVILLE — Public school health screenings in Kentucky are changing with the times. In a nod to the growing problem of childhood obesity, the state Board of Education recently approved a propo...
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