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Kentucky News

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4 hrs ago | The Cincinnati Enquirer

Report: N.Ky. jobs grew in '07

COVINGTON - Northern Kentucky Tri-ED, the economic development agency for Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, announced today that 2,264 jobs were added in Northern Kentucky in 2007.

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12 hrs ago | University of Bristol news

Addressing the issues of ageing

The key challenges facing our ageing world will be addressed by international experts in Bristol this week.

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Related Topix: University of Kentucky, World News, United Kingdom,

16 hrs ago | WCPO

Ky. Governor Announces Health Insurance Plan For Children

There's a big push tonight to get insurance for as many children as possible in Kentucky.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, US Governors, Steve Beshear, Kentucky Government

Wed Sep 03, 2008

WKYT-TV Lexington

Appeals Court Rejects Some Kentucky Water Regulations

A federal appeals court rejected a Kentucky regulation for coal-mining discharge into waterways and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reevaluate the rule.

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Related Topix: Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law

WDRB-TV Louisville

Federal grand jury indicts 3 in bid-rigging case

A federal grand jury in Lexington has indicted former Kentucky Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert and contractor Leonard Lawson.

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Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY

Ky. refinery will be auctioned

A small southcentral Kentucky oil refinery will be auctioned in late September as part of bankruptcy proceedings.

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Related Topix: Tompkinsville, KY, Home Listing, Home

700WLW Cincinnati

Siblings Busted in Bank Heist

It started with a bank robbery around 9:30 Friday morning. Kentucky State Police say 35-year-old Sam Boles of Covington entered the Forcht Bank on Owenton in Corinth and passed the teller a note demanding ...

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Tue Sep 02, 2008

WTCR-AM Huntington

Elliott County, Ky's jailer is jailed

Kentucky State Police have arrested Elliott County, Ky's jailer on a 1st degree rape charge.

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UPI

Watercooler Stories

A Kentucky college student has sued an anonymous poster on a newspaper forum who said she had exposed herself to a woman and children at a mall.

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Related Topix: Eastern Kentucky University, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati

Northern Kentucky Rest Stop Reopened

Kerry Duke A water main break that closed the Florence Welcome Center along Interstate 71/75 was repaired and the rest stop was reopened Friday evening.

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Related Topix: Kentucky Government

Mon Sep 01, 2008

WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati

Unemployment Rate Up In Northern Kentucky

Web produced by: Kevin Delaney and Ian Preuth The unemployment rate continues to rise in Northern Kentucky.

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Moved Permanently

Kentucky Taking In Hundreds Of Evacuees

More than 830 evacuees from the Gulf Coast arrived in Louisville over the weekend ahead of Hurricane Gustav, which is expected to make landfall in south Louisiana sometime Monday or Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Louisville, KY

WFIE-TV Evansville

Ky. court records overflowing in storage

Kentucky's state archives and courthouses around the state are overflowing with court records after the state's top court administrator called for Kentucky to retain all records forever.

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Sun Aug 31, 2008

WHAS-TV Louisville

Kentucky researchers testing smallpox vaccine

University of Kentucky researchers are studying the safety of a new smallpox vaccine as part of a national program to develop medications that would protect U.S. citizens against a terrorist attack involving ...

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Related Topix: University of Kentucky, Terrorism

WLKY.com

Kentucky Supreme Court To Consider Self Defense Laws

The Kentucky Supreme Court plans to review two cases involving a new self-defense law that allows people to shoot dangerous home invaders without fear of prosecution.

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WDRB-TV Louisville

Ky. city examining energy use in buildings

A southern Kentucky city is examining on a building-by-building basis how much it spends on electricity and fuel costs with an eye toward finding ways to cut down on the expenses.

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NowPublic

US Soldier in Iraq Murder & Rape Charges to Face Civilian Trial

US Ex- soldier, Steven Dale Green, 22, has today been told by a federal judge in Kentucky that he is to face civilian trial on charges of raping a 14 year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her family.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty

Sat Aug 30, 2008

WEHT

Kentucky Troops to Support Gustav Relief Mission

More than 350 Kentucky National Guard troops will deploy in support of Hurricane Gustav relief missions in Louisiana.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather

Cincypost.Com

Central Ky. Couple Convicted In 6-Year-Old's Death

A central Kentucky man has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the death last year of his girlfriend's 6-year-old son.

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WDRB-TV Louisville

Widow says pilots don't deserve all blame in crash

A northern Kentucky woman wants to prove that her husband does not deserve all the blame for the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington two years ago.

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