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Sun files Gatewood Galbraith, Independent candidate for Kentucky governor, acknowledges supporters at the 2011 Fancy Farm Picnic in Graves County. Galbraith died Wednesday at his home in Lexington at the age of 64.
5-time candidate Galbraith dies
LOUISVILLE — Gatewood Galbraith spotted the man digging through a trash can during his usual Sunday drive in search of Lexington’s poor and homeless. The well-known lawyer and Kentucky political...
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House speaker plans fast start for labor bill
By TOM LoBIANCO Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Republican House leader on Tuesday promised swift movement on a push to make his state the first in more than a decade to ban labor c...
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Session opens with redistricting talks
By ROGER ALFORD Associated Press FRANKFORT — Lawmakers convened the 2012 session of the General Assembly on Tuesday and prepared to tackle a litany of divisive issues including legislative an...
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Nearly 1,000 Kentucky convicts win early release
FRANKFORT — Nearly 1,000 Kentucky convicts are walking out of prison early as part of changes in the state’s penal code. The changes approved by lawmakers last year allow prisoners within six mo...
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Veteran innkeeper dies
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Services are Thursday for Wilma Maples, operator of The Gatlinburg Inn — one of the tourist town’s first businesses. Maples, who was 88, died Friday at the inn. In her 58 ...
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Repairs speeding up on Ohio River bridge
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — The contractor working to repair a closed Ohio River bridge expects work to accelerate this week as daily deliveries of steel begin arriving at the span. Steel started arrivin...
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Kentucky man takes helping vets to national level
ELIZABETHTOWN — An Elizabethtown man is taking his service of honoring veterans to a national level. Bob Fulkerson’s volunteer work at the local and state level led to him being selected as nati...
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Art show featuring recycled materials held at SIU
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Call it the Junkman Cometh. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that recycled material will take center stage at a new art exhibit at Southern Illinois University at ...
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Associated Press A fire burns at the former Westclox clock factory early Sunday in Peru, Ill. The fire began before midnight and drew firefighters from surrounding northern Illinois communities to help and lead to the mandatory evacuation of nearby homes.
Fire in famed clocktower contained, still burning
PERU, Ill. — Firefighters have contained the blaze that destroyed part of a massive clock factory in northern Illinois, but officials say it may be a week before it is extinguished. Police Chief...
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Former New Era publisher dies
HOPKINSVILLE — A former newspaper publisher who was named last year to the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame has died. Robert C. Carter died Saturday at his home in Hopkinsville aft...
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