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Clark County officials approved a development agreement Wednesday that paves the way for Winchester to vie for a $300 million sports-and-entertainment complex.
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In a tersely worded opinion, a Fayette judge refused Wednesday to throw out a record $60 million in punitive damages against Shane Ragland in the sniper-style shooting death of a University of Kentucky football player in 1994.
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Persistent snow and rain in Lexington contributed to more than 35 traffic accidents Wednesday evening.
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Blue Grass Airport Board Chairman Bernard Lovely is ignoring the Urban County Council's unanimous request that he immediately step down as chairman and remove himself from airport activity.
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Kentucky State Auditor Crit Luallen said Tuesday that her office has put law enforcement agencies on notice about possible criminal wrongdoing at Blue Grass Airport.
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A University of Kentucky professor and former Kentucky Cabinet Secretary for Health and Family Services was appointed to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports by President George W. Bush Tuesday.
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A pedestrian is in critical condition at University of Kentucky Hospital after being hit by a small SUV around 6 p.m., authorities said.
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Friday the 13th strikes again.
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The Blue Grass Airport board will cancel credit cards for the airport's top officials in light of widespread concern about excessive and inappropriate spending, including the revelation that three airport employees charged $4,500 at a Texas strip club to one of the cards.
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FRANKFORT — Jaye Forsythe-Seward has used money from earned income tax credit refunds to help buy a new car and a new home. When her townhouse was flooded in 2006, it was money from her tax refund that helped her replace items in her waterlogged home.
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In naming a new chief executive officer Monday, the organizers of the World Equestrian Games turned to a Kentucky tourism official who gained experience at another international sporting this year — the Ryder Cup.
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Influential Frankfort lobbyist Bob Babbage last year failed to disclose his private business deals with Gov. Steve Beshear's chief of staff, in violation of the state ethics law, documents show.
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RICHMOND — The three men charged with the beating of an Eastern Kentucky University student as part of a fraternity hazing ritual will each serve at least 30 days of home incarceration for the assault and could potentially have their records expunged by the end of the year.
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A Rockcastle County woman whose van was stolen while she was visiting her husband in a Lexington hospital has a replacement vehicle, thanks to people who read last week's newspaper story.
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Century Bank of Kentucky Inc. has reported that counterfeit cashier's checks bearing the Lawrenceburg institution's name are in circulation.
You can attend a Kentucky-themed pre-inaugural ball in the nation's capital for $353.50 — or take along nine friends for an even $4,000.
WASHINGTON — Pointing with concern to "red ink as far as the eye can see," President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending and named a special watchdog to clamp down on other federal programs — even as he campaigned anew to spend the largest pile of taxpayer money in history to revive the sinking economy.
Researchers at Cornell University have discovered that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - the ones that spread diseases like yellow and dengue fever - alter their wing vibrations in a mating signal.
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