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Study: Settlement Helps 50,000 Tobacco Farmers
A University of Kentucky study finds that more than 50,000 current and former Kentucky tobacco farmers have benefited from the state's share of a decade-old settlement with tobacco companies.
WLKY.com – Nov 20, 2008 5:34 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Louisville
A University of Kentucky study finds that more than 50,000 current and former Kentucky tobacco farmers have benefited from the state's share of a decade-old settlement with tobacco companies.
WLKY.com – Nov 20, 2008 5:34 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Louisville
Study: Settlement helps 50,000 Ky. tobacco farmers
A University of Kentucky study finds that more than 50,000 current and former Kentucky tobacco farmers have benefited from the state's share of a decade-old settlement with tobacco companies.The results of the study were announced Thursday at a meeting of the Kentucky Agricultural Development B ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 20, 2008 5:30 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
A University of Kentucky study finds that more than 50,000 current and former Kentucky tobacco farmers have benefited from the state's share of a decade-old settlement with tobacco companies.The results of the study were announced Thursday at a meeting of the Kentucky Agricultural Development B ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 20, 2008 5:30 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Mining fears hold up Legacy Trail
Plans to build the nine-mile Legacy Trail for cyclists and pedestrians between downtown Lexington and the Kentucky Horse Park have hit a roadblock. The city's Board of Adjustment failed to approve a land swap between Vulcan Materials Co. and the University of Kentucky that trail organizers say ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 19, 2008 07:43 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Plans to build the nine-mile Legacy Trail for cyclists and pedestrians between downtown Lexington and the Kentucky Horse Park have hit a roadblock. The city's Board of Adjustment failed to approve a land swap between Vulcan Materials Co. and the University of Kentucky that trail organizers say ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 19, 2008 07:43 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Police identify teen suspect in apartment parking lot murder
Lexington police have identified a man suspected of a murder last month. Curtis F. Smith, 18, is wanted on robbery and murder charges in connection with the death of Charles I. Holder. On Oct. 22, Holder was found with gunshot wounds in a breezeway of the Coolavin Apartments on West Sixth Street. He ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 19, 2008 02:48 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Lexington police have identified a man suspected of a murder last month. Curtis F. Smith, 18, is wanted on robbery and murder charges in connection with the death of Charles I. Holder. On Oct. 22, Holder was found with gunshot wounds in a breezeway of the Coolavin Apartments on West Sixth Street. He ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 19, 2008 02:48 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Repeat-offender law blamed for full jails
LOUISVILLE . Kentucky's repeat offender law shoulders much of the blame for overcrowded prisons, according to a new study by the man who wrote the state's penal code. The report by University of Kentucky professor Robert Lawson called the state's repeat offender law, which provides en ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 18, 2008 07:39 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
LOUISVILLE . Kentucky's repeat offender law shoulders much of the blame for overcrowded prisons, according to a new study by the man who wrote the state's penal code. The report by University of Kentucky professor Robert Lawson called the state's repeat offender law, which provides en ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 18, 2008 07:39 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Study blames law for overcrowded prisons
A new study by the man who wrote Kentucky's penal code puts much of the blame for overcrowded prisons on the state's repeat offender law.The report by University of Kentucky professor Robert Lawson says the repeat offender law originally was reserved for the worst criminals. Lawmakers have ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 17, 2008 6:05 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
A new study by the man who wrote Kentucky's penal code puts much of the blame for overcrowded prisons on the state's repeat offender law.The report by University of Kentucky professor Robert Lawson says the repeat offender law originally was reserved for the worst criminals. Lawmakers have ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 17, 2008 6:05 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Kentucky's banks fending off frenzy
PNC Bank will become Kentucky's largest bank if its purchase of National City wins final approval. The new PNC would be so large . 12.5 percent of all deposits held by the state's 234 banks . that it probably would trigger action by federal regulators in more normal economic times. But fed ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 17, 2008 11:50 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
PNC Bank will become Kentucky's largest bank if its purchase of National City wins final approval. The new PNC would be so large . 12.5 percent of all deposits held by the state's 234 banks . that it probably would trigger action by federal regulators in more normal economic times. But fed ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 17, 2008 11:50 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Author says foreign policy needs finesse, not force
John Stempel insists that the title of his new book, Common Sense and Foreign Policy , is not an oxymoron, even if it seems like it lately. In fact, the veteran U.S. diplomat, senior professor and former director of the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Co ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 07:42 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
John Stempel insists that the title of his new book, Common Sense and Foreign Policy , is not an oxymoron, even if it seems like it lately. In fact, the veteran U.S. diplomat, senior professor and former director of the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Co ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 07:42 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
2 killed, 3 injured in eastern Ky. wreck
Two eastern Kentuckians have died in a three-vehicle crash in Morgan County.Kentucky State Police say 68-year-old Donald Morris and his wife, 62-year-old Jean Morris, of West Liberty died after the wreck Thursday afternoon.Police say the wreck happened when a northbound car driven by 19-year-old Nak ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 05:08 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Two eastern Kentuckians have died in a three-vehicle crash in Morgan County.Kentucky State Police say 68-year-old Donald Morris and his wife, 62-year-old Jean Morris, of West Liberty died after the wreck Thursday afternoon.Police say the wreck happened when a northbound car driven by 19-year-old Nak ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 05:08 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
Morgan County couple killed in wreck
A Morgan County couple were killed Thursday afternoon when the car they were in was struck by another vehicle. Donald Morris, 68, and his wife, Jean Morris, 62, were pronounced dead at the crash scene on Ky. 519 about 13 miles north of West Liberty, according to a Kentucky State Police press release ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 03:37 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington
A Morgan County couple were killed Thursday afternoon when the car they were in was struck by another vehicle. Donald Morris, 68, and his wife, Jean Morris, 62, were pronounced dead at the crash scene on Ky. 519 about 13 miles north of West Liberty, according to a Kentucky State Police press release ... more »
Kentucky.com – Nov 14, 2008 03:37 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Kentucky: Lexington