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  • Season looks promising for Ky Farmers

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:10 PM

    The wheat crop is expected to be up 35 percent from last year's harvest. It's a crop and profit local farmers, still suffering from last year's drought, were counting on.

  • Farmers worry about the delayed corn crop season

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:33 PM

    The excessive moisture and flooding have set the corn crop season back drastically, and now some farmers are worried they are going to lose a significant amount of money.

  • Truckers say regulations will lead to higher prices at stores

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:14 PM

    Fighting driver fatigue. New federal rules for truckers go into effect soon, but could they be a costly mistake?

  • Charity-funded clinic to help Fort Campbell troops

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:42 PM

    A private foundation broke ground at Fort Campbell for a new clinic to treat the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in another push toward their goal to raise millions to treat post-traumatic stress and brain injuries.

  • St. Louis police: 4 dead in murder-suicide

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:52 PM

    St. Louis police say an argument inside a business south of downtown escalated into gun violence, with a man shooting three other people before turning the gun on himself.

  • Senators ask network to ban kids' junk food ads

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:49 PM

    Four U.S. senators are asking Nickelodeon to ban ads targeted at children that promote and sell junk food and sugar.

  • Tea party asks judge to decide health care lawsuit

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:45 PM

    Tea party activists have asked a judge to resolve a lawsuit over the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange by granting a summary judgment.

  • Work on US 51 Ohio River Bridge delayed until July

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:20 PM

    A project to repair the US 51 Ohio River Bridge will not begin until after July 7. The delay comes at the request of a contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

  • Gov. Quinn annouonces $2.1 million project for I-24 Ohio River Bridge

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:07 PM

    Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a $2.1 million maintenance and repair project for the Interstate 24 Ohio River Bridge.

  • Lawmaker: Terrorists change tactics after leaks

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:36 PM

    A top House lawmaker says those who want to harm the U.S. are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U.S. surveillance programs.

  • Report: Turkey PM to meet with park protesters

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:40 PM

    Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency says the prime minister will meet with representatives of the protesters occupying Istanbul's Gezi Park.

  • Senate leader won't weaken gun background checks

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:38 PM

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he won't accept watered-down background checks as the price for pushing gun control legislation through the Senate.

  • Zimmerman jurors to be sequestered up to a month

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:36 PM

    The jury in the George Zimmerman trial will be sequestered.

  • Murray robbery case to go to grand jury

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:46 AM

    The case of three people facing charges in connection with a robbery will go to a grand jury.

  • Patriot, union exchange jabs during bankruptcy

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:17 AM

    Prospects of a strike involving union workers at Patriot Coal Corp. are intensifying after a bankruptcy judge signed off on the company's push to abandon its labor agreement with the miners.

  • 360-plus homes destroyed in Colorado Springs wildfire

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:15 AM

    A wildfire burning near Colorado Springs has destroyed at least 360 homes, making it the most destructive in state history.

  • Supreme Court says natural human genes can't be patented

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:43 AM

    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that natural human genes cannot be patented by companies, but it said that synthetic genetic material can — a mixed ruling for the biotechnology industry.

  • Senate votes down GOP border amendment

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:39 AM

    The Senate has voted to kill a GOP measure preventing immigrants here illegally from taking the first steps toward citizenship until the U.S.-Mexico border has been under control for six months.

  • Inspector in Philadelphia collapse commits suicide

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:31 AM

    Philadelphia officials have identified an inspector who fatally shot himself a week after a building collapse that killed six people as a dedicated 16-year veteran of the Department of Licenses and Inspections.

  • Bulger trial featuring surveillance video, photos

    Updated: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:18 AM

    A retired state police lieutenant has returned to the witness stand for a second day in the racketeering trial of reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

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