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Thursday May 16 | GroundReport.com

Prescription Drug Use Is The Leading Cause of Accidential Deaths

This article caught me off guard as I read it in a Fox News.Com report stating political leaders in Kentucky had called a local retailer, the Urban Outfitters, to advise them to halt the sale of flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses because they look like real prescription pill bottles.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Prison, Kentucky, Urban Outfitters, Retail, Apparel, Family, Teenagers

Wed May 15, 2013

Independent

Campaign to back health exchange

The Affordable Health Care Act and - according to Gov. Steve Beshear - a healthier lifestyle for citizens are coming to Kentucky.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, US Governors, Steve Beshear, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Health Insurance

Evansville Courier & Press

Speeded-up efforts helping replace damaged Webster bridge

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is moving ahead with plans to replace a failed bridge on Kentucky 874 near the Lisman community south of Dixon in Webster County.

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KFVS12

GED tests free in Ky. for 11 weeks

Kentuckians who take the high school equivalency test between Wednesday and July 31 will have their fee of $60 to $120 paid by Kentucky Adult Education.

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Evansville Courier & Press

Federal board calls for lowering DUI level from .08 to .05

Jessica Langley reacts as she realizes she's hitting a cone while driving a Global Electric Motors car with Fatal Vision goggles on during a drunk driving class at HCHS Thursday afternoon, October 28, 2010.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Floyd County Times

Parkway to see lane closures in Clark County for four months

Locals traveling to central Kentucky might want to leave a little earlier, to account for road construction along the Mountain Parkway.

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WFIE-TV Evansville

Emergency work zone in Henderson to address pavement wash out

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Henderson County Highway Maintenance Crew has set up an emergency lane restriction on US 41-Alternate between US 60 and the KY 425 Henderson Bypass at the south edge of Henderson.

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Marshall County Tribune-Courier

NTSB says crew ignored warnings

The National Transportation Safety Board said the primary cause of the Delta Mariner's collision with the Eggners Ferry Bridge was the crew's reliance on a pilot's advice.

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Related Topix: The National, Entertainment, Television, Kentucky, US Coast Guard, US Military, US News

Falmouth Outlook

Asphalt rehab projects awarded to 45 counties

Governor Steve Beshear announced that asphalt rehabilitation projects totaling more than $64 million have been awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet as the spring construction season continues.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Steve Beshear, Kentucky

Mon May 13, 2013

WKJK-AM Louisville

Poll: Most Kentuckians Favor Marijuana for Medicinal Use

Currently, 17 states and the District of Columbia, allow marijuana for medicinal use.

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Related Topix: Marijuana, Kentucky, District of Columbia Government, Washington DC

WBKO-TV Bowling Green

Physicians Talk Medicaid Expansion in Kentucky

The governor's office says this could provide 332,000 of the 640,000 currently uninsured Kentuckians with coverage through the Health Benefit Exchange.

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News Democrat

Political illusions and cheap tricks: The wrong medicine for Kentucky's Medicaid malady

More than 324 years after architect Sir Christopher Wren constructed fake pillars at Windsor Town Hall near London to satisfy building inspectors, tourists remain fascinated with the good-for-nothing posts.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Kentucky, US Governors, Steve Beshear, Tax

Lexington Herald-Leader

Alison Lundergan Grimes could run as D.C. outsider, analysts say

University of Kentucky political scientist Ernie Yanarella said if Grimes decides to get into the race she will have to set herself apart from Obama, particularly on the coal industry that has proven so influential in Kentucky politics.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ben Chandler, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, Republican, Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, 2012 Presidential Election

WIDN Design Network

HDR to develop $1.3 billion Ohio River Bridges project

American architecture, engineering, consulting, and construction firm HDR has been awarded a construction oversight assistance contract by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for the $1.3 billion Louisville-Southern-Indiana Ohio River Bridges project.

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Sun May 12, 2013

Free Republic

ObamaCare fight in Kentucky headed to court

Republican operative David Adams filed a lawsuit this week in Franklin County Circuit Court to force a shutdown of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, the state-run option for ObamaCare in the Bluegrass State.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, US Governors, Steve Beshear

Sat May 11, 2013

Evansville Courier & Press

News briefs from around Kentucky

A school bus carrying a girls softball team overturned Friday on U.S. 60 in far-western Kentucky, injuring several students.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ben Chandler, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Kentucky, Livingston County, KY

WTVF Nashville

Farmhouse shows history of average Kentuckians

A Franklin County farmhouse that dates back to the 1800s is being considered for a historic designation as an example of how average Kentuckians have lived.

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WHAS11

Lawsuit calls for judges to do redistricting

The latest lawsuit filed in Kentucky's dispute over legislative redistricting calls for a three-judge panel to redraw political boundaries.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, US Governors, Steve Beshear

Fri May 10, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

School bus overturns in Kentucky, students injured

In this photo provided by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, emergency crews respond to the scene of an overturned Union County school bus on U.S. 60 at Silver Mine Road near Smithland, Ky., Friday, May 10, 2013.

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WKYT

Another federal lawsuit filed over redistricting

American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky attorney Bill Sharp filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court on behalf of five Kentuckians who claim the inaction of lawmakers left them without adequate representation.

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Related Topix: Activism, Kentucky