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Environmental groups sue company over streams
PIKEVILLE — Two environmental groups are suing an Eastern Kentucky coal mine claiming violations of the Clean Water Act. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Pikeville last week claims two d...
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Inmate release means fewer nonprofits helpers
BOWLING GREEN — A statewide effort to save money by releasing nonviolent offenders from local jails could have an unintended negative effect on nonprofits. In Warren County, 11 inmates are set t...
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Jim Beam adding visitors center
Associated Press CLERMONT — Visitors to the Jim Beam distillery in central Kentucky are welcomed with bourbon, given a walking tour and shown a brief film, but Beam’s great-grandson wants to giv...
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New app helps determine blood alcohol content
Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A drunken driving test may not seem the likeliest place to come up with a mobile phone app, but that’s when inspiration struck Nashville resident Clay Bradley...
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Sheriff: No foul play in teen’s firearm death
Associated Press NASON, Ill. — Southern Illinois police say a 14-year-old boy has died in a firearms accident. Jefferson County Sheriff Roger Mulch says Kevin Green Jr. died in the rural city...
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Hit hard by war, towns respond with support
By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A decade of fighting has claimed the lives of more than 130 members of the military who called Tennessee home, and the loss has felt esp...
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Beshear rejects proposed UofL hospital merger
FRANKFORT — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear rejected a proposed merger of University Hospital in Louisville and two other hospital systems on Friday, saying it wouldn’t be in the best interest of the s...
Dec 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Family anxious about inmate’s release LOUISVILLE — The family of a slain Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy is anxious over the release from prison of the man found guilty of manslaughter but men...
Dec 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Inmates pursue funds for clemency bids
LOUISVILLE — Two Kentucky death row inmates are hoping brain scans and mental tests will bolster their cases for a rare grant of executive clemency that would spare their lives. Ralph S. Baze Jr...
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States reach agreement on bridges
LOUISVILLE — Construction on two new bridges spanning the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana could begin in late 2012, with the spans open before the end of the decade, Kentucky and Indiana of...
Dec 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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