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Nunn facing additional charges in Hart County
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A former state lawmaker charged in the fatal shooting of his former fiancee has been indicted on wanton endangerment charges in Hart County....  Read Story.
Hurt jockey's condition upgraded
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Jockey Julia Brimo's condition has improved after a spill during a race at Keeneland a week ago....  Read Story.
Guard tells panel inmates rioted over food
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- A guard at a Kentucky prison says inmates who rioted and set fire to buildings in August were upset over the food they were being served....  Read Story.
Former tobacco warehouse gutted by fire
MAYSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A fire has gutted a former tobacco warehouse in northern Kentucky....  Read Story.
Fort Knox opens new behavioral health clinic
FORT KNOX, Ky. (AP) -- Fort Knox is celebrating the opening of its new Behavioral Health Center that will treat soldiers for the mental stresses of military service....  Read Story.
Stumbo calls for stricter domestic violence law
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo is calling for a new law that would allow courts to force some domestic violence offenders to wear ankle bracelets that track their moveme  Read Story.
Operator of horse-drawn buggy cited for crash
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) -- The Amish operator of a horse-drawn buggy has been cited after being involved in a collision with a motor vehicle on a highway in western Kentucky....  Read Story.
2 facing moonshine charges
GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky State Police say two men are facing charges after officers found a moonshine operation at a residence in Livingston County in western Kentucky....  Read Story.
2 officers wounded in ambush return to work
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- Two southern Indiana police officers who were shot and seriously wounded in a motel ambush have returned to work nine months after the shooting....  Read Story.
AG asks Supreme Court to rule on sex offender law
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Attorney General Jack Conway is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the Kentucky Supreme Court's recent ruling which loosened restrictions on where convicted sex offend  Read Story.
TVA prepares to start smokestack scrubbers
KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) -- Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still e  Read Story.
Calipari, Kentucky steal momentum from Louisville
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- There's a joke Rick Pitino likes to trot out when describing the difference between coaching at Louisville and coaching at Kentucky....  Read Story.
Ethics panel clears NC Rep. Shuler in TVA probe
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Congressional ethics investigators have concluded that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately while a residential development that he was involved in so  Read Story.
Judge won't bar new federal tobacco marketing regs
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that tobacco companies hoping to block new restrictions on their marketing have little chance of succeeding....  Read Story.
AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his g  Read Story.
Soldier found with explosives released from jail
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An Army Special Forces soldier who admitted to police that he was stockpiling military-grade explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell was released from jail into the  Read Story.
Photos sought for book about Kentucky ice storm
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) -- Photographs of the ice storm that devastated western Kentucky earlier this year are being solicited for inclusion in a book to be published on the storm's first anniversary...  Read Story.
Judge rejects challenge to tobacco marketing regs
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that a tobacco industry attempt to block new restrictions on marketing tobacco has little chance of succeeding....  Read Story.
Pagans' defendant pleads guilty, agrees to testify
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the prosecution in a federal racketeering case targeting the Pagans Motorcycle Club....  Read Story.
Poker champ Berman stakes claim in Ohio casinos
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The casino developer and poker champion whose bid for an Ohio casino failed in 2008 has staked a claim to all four Ohio casinos voters approved Tuesday....  Read Story.


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