May 23, 2013
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Schools serve more poor, homeless students
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The percent of Illinois students who are homeless or living in poverty has grown in recent years. In a release Wednesday, the Illinois State Board of Education says the spike...
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TVA checking sport fish this spring with survey
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority is conducting it annual sport fish survey. TVA began the count March 12 at Wilson Reservoir near Muscle Shoals, Ala. By May 9, the utility wi...
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Associated Press Olutosin Oduwole walks outside in 2011 during his trial on charges of attempting to make a terrorist threat at the Madison County Criminal Justice Center in Edwardsville, Ill., Oduwole, a former student at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, whom prosecutors accused of threatening a murderous rampage, was released from prison Monday.
Former SIU student released after note deemed not a threat
ST. LOUIS — A former Southern Illinois University student convicted in 2011 of attempting to threaten a murderous rampage has been released from prison, days after an appeals court overturned the a...
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Judge rejects challenge to prison pastoral rules
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge has rejected a challenge brought by a group of Kentucky death row inmates to rules governing how and when pastors visit them at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. U.S....
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Condemned inmates prompt revisions to lethal injection
FRANKFORT — Kentucky prosecutors argued Monday that executions in Kentucky should resume because the state changed the way it would carry out lethal injections based on the concerns raised by conde...
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Woman describes newborn twins’ death
GALLATIN, Tenn. — Jurors at Lindsey Lowe’s murder trial watched a police interrogation video Wednesday in which Lowe told a detective that she “maybe” smothered her newborn twins. But Lowe’s att...
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Commission: Farmer charged for 42 violations
FRANKFORT — The Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Monday charged former agriculture commissioner Richie Farmer with a record 42 ethics violations, saying the onetime college basketball star mis...
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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...
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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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