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6 hrs ago | The Sentinel-Echo

Another study links skyrocketing prison costs with PFO laws

Another group has looked at Kentucky's large prison population and costs and found more or less the same solutions - but they're not likely to be the answers most lawmakers seek.

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law

14 hrs ago | Lexington Herald-Leader

Coal gives big money to candidates

A coal company whose president helped raise $7 million for a new athletics dorm at the University of Kentucky has been a major contributor to state political campaigns.

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18 hrs ago | PhillyBurbs.com

Charity study shows 6M seniors at risk of hunger

A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly six million seniors are at risk of being hungry.

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Related Topix: Life, Charity , Charitable Organizations, Gaming, Harrahs Entertainment

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Gouverneur Times

Ky. universities expand smoking, tobacco bans

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Louisville, KY, University of Louisville, Pikeville College

Boston Herald

Former NBA player Sam Bowie applies to be first black member at club

Former University of Kentucky men's basketball player Sam Bowie said Thursday that he has applied for membership in Lexington's Idle Hour Country Club, which has never had an African-American member.

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Related Topix: Lexington, KY, Idle Hour, KY, African-American

The Courier-Journal

Coal company source of big political gifts

FRANKFORT, Ky. - The coal company that has found itself embroiled in controversy over the firing of a key state mining regulator has been a major contributor to political campaigns and committees in Kentucky the past five years.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Anne Northup, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Frankfort, KY, Kentucky

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Kypost.Com

UK Snuffs Out Smoking

Smoking was officially snuffed out Thursday at the University of Kentucky with the start of a strict tobacco-free policy everywhere on the sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Agriculture, Science, Louisville, KY, Clarksville Metro, Hopkinsville, KY

Kentucky.com

Ex-Cat now charged with cheating 19 people in alleged UK ticket scam

A former University of Kentucky men's basketball player accused of running a ticket scam totaling more than $70,000 has been indicted on 23 counts of theft by deception.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Georgetown, KY

Philly.com

Tobacco state Ky.'s biggest university bans leaf

The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health

Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY

Changing PFO laws might save money for strapped state budget

Before Kentucky faced a crumbling budget and the bottom fall out of tax collections, lawmakers were looking ways to save money on a growing prison population.

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Related Topix: Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Explosion, Glasgow, KY

Wed Nov 18, 2009

PR-inside.com

CPRITa s First Round of Requests for Prevention Funding Exceeds Total Budget Amount

CPRIT receives requests totaling over $28 million in response to its initial prevention funding opportunities.

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UK News

UK Names Joe Monroe Chief of Police

LEXINGTON , Ky. Major Joe Monroe was named permanent University of Kentucky Chief of Police today, following a three-year tenure as the department's senior officer.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

UK News

Free H1N1 Vaccine Walk-In Clinic for UK Community

LEXINGTON, Ky. The University Health Service has been allotted 2,000 doses of H1N1 intranasal vaccine from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Lexington, KY, Lexington-Fayette, KY, Fayette County, KY, Medicine, Influenza

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The Sentinel-Echo

Bus, SUV collide in Sublimity

Crews responded Thursday morning to a wreck involving a school bus and one other vehicle.

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Related Topix: Premium, KY, Busy, KY, London, KY

Myrtle Beach Online

Calif. man set for hearing in wine warehouse fire

A San Francisco Bay area wine keeper about to stand trial for a fire that destroyed a warehouse filled with 6 million bottles of wine has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing.

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Related Topix: Fire, Anderson County, SC, Greenville Metro, Anderson, SC

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Kentucky.com

Police seek info on hit and run

Police are searching for the owner of a car involved in a hit and run accident that left a man in a coma.

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Related Topix: Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY

The Courier-Journal

Special report | Fighting domestic violence in Kentucky

In the past three years, 49 Kentuckians have been killed by their husbands, boyfriends or former mates - victims of the ultimate form of domestic violence, according to a state advocacy group and news accounts.

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Related Topix: Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law, Kentucky, Kentucky Government, Lexington, KY

Belleville News

New chewing gum may help soldiers fight 'trench mouth'

With the help of a gum chomping machine and years of careful chemistry, University of Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can help replace toothpaste and a toothbrush, thus improving the health of soldiers in the field as well as children in poor countries.

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Related Topix: Dentistry

Sat Nov 14, 2009

WQMF-FM Louisville

Police say they're investigating suspicious activity

The University of Kentucky has issued a crime bulletin after reports of "suspicious activity" on campus.

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Related Topix: Kentucky

Fri Nov 13, 2009

TheTimesTribune.com

11 students hurt in bus crash

Times-Tribune Staff Report The driver of a Mercury Mountaineer was admitted to the University of Kentucky hospital after his vehicle reportedly collided with a Laurel County school bus Thursday morning.

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Related Topix: Laurel County, KY, London, KY, Corbin, KY

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