Paducah News

Jimmy M. Webber, 86, of Mayfield died at 2:15 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the McCracken Nursing & Rehabilitation Facility in Paducah.

An election will be held on Saturday, June 15, 2013, to elect one trustee for the Melber-New Hope Fire District.

The Kentucky congressional delegation sent DOE the attached letter urging it to keep the uranium tails in Paducah and move forward with a long-term solution.

Two dozen Kentucky museums and other attractions are offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families starting Monday and continuing through Labor Day.

Discovery Education and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute 's Education Foundation today announced the Grand Prize winner and two runners-up of TurfMutt's second annual national 'Spruce Up Your School' sweepstakes.

The McCracken County Sheriff's Department responded to a crash at the intersection of Benton Road and Pugh Road on Wednesday, May 22.

A Paducah sixth-grader is in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital today reportedly as a result of a playground attack.

Iva Lee Gamblin, age 98 of Paducah, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the ER of Western Baptist Health Care.

Do you know someone who may be interested in this? Just fill in the brief information below and we'll send off a recommendation.

PAPA Gallery is pleased to announce an amazing opportunity. Johannes Vloothuis, Master Painter and Official Art Instructor from Northlight Books and The Artist Magazine, is coming to Paducah and offering a three-day workshop, May 17, 18 and 19th and , 25 and 26th.

The Ledger Independent reports that first lady Jane Beshear made the announcement that Maysville in northeastern Kentucky and Bardstown in central Kentucky have made the list.

The national TurfMutt program, named after Lucky, a real-life rescue dog, is a dynamic digital curriculum that encourages kids and their families to protect and foster green space in their communities, and advocates for animal rescue and adoption initiatives.

Veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold got an email out of the blue one day from a woman in Mayfield, Kentucky, asking him for help to find the murderers of a teenage girl.

Each April thousands of quilters travel to Paducah, Ky., for the American Society of Quilters Quilt Week and Show.

Do you know someone who may be interested in this? Just fill in the brief information below and we'll send off a recommendation.

On Friday, May 10, 2013 at 4:40 pm a Union County School District bus, carrying 25 students and 4 adults was traveling west bound on US 60, in Livingston County, approximately 3 miles east of Smithland, when the operator exited the right shoulder, overcorrected and crossed both lanes before overturning off the east bound shoulder.

Terri Kirk, school librarian at Reidland High School in Paducah, Ky., has been elected as the 2014-2015 American Association of School Librarians , promotes the improvement and extension of library services in elementary and secondary schools as a means of strengthening the total education program.

Randy and Debbie Johnson of Tilline, announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Jesse Johnson to Adam Larson, son of Dewey Larson of Paducah and the late Joanne Larson.

MA3 Johnny Allen Henry Oliver, 23, of Jacksonville, Fla. formerly of the St. Denis community, died May 7, 2013, in Bahrain while on active duty serving in the U.S. Navy.

Craig Hipsher of Benton, Ky., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 20 pounds, 15 ounces Saturday to win the Bass Fishing League LBL Division tournament on Lake Barkley.