02/07/2012 - Kentucky's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 17th Annual National Awards Program
Julia Higginbotham, 17, of Salvisa and Megison Hancock, 13, of Paducah today were named Kentucky's top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
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02/03/2012 - Price fixing settlement could mean money for those who sold their home
A federal price fixing settlement could put some green in Kentucky homeowners pockets.
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01/31/2012 - BuyerCurious.com® Cuts Cost of Buying, Selling Homes in Kentucky
BuyerCurious.com, the first real estate website that allows home buyers and sellers to make and receive offers online, announced today the service is now available to residents of Kentucky.
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01/18/2012 - Longtime Republican Lawmaker Retires
The longest-serving Republican lawmaker in the Kentucky House of Representatives since 1900 is retiring.
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12/21/2011 - Estate's historic status challenged
A real estate developer is asking for an estate to be stripped of its historic standing, alleging that Kentucky and Jefferson County officials sought the listing decades ago in an effort to block the completion of Interstate 265 and an eastern Ohio River
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12/25/2011 - The ballad of the business page
Reporter and poet Scott Sloan puts Kentucky and Lexington business news in a poetic perspective.
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12/21/2011 - Estate's historic status challenged
A real estate developer is asking for an estate to be stripped of its historic standing, alleging that Kentucky and Jefferson County officials sought the listing decades ago in an effort to block the completion of Interstate 265 and an eastern Ohio River
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12/18/2011 - State buys Scott County wildlife recreation area from big political donor
GEORGETOWN — The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources this month paid $6.24 million to a company co-owned by one of the state's biggest political donors to buy a piece of undeveloped land in Scott County.
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12/13/2011 - UK talks with private firm about student housing
The University of Kentucky is in talks with a Tennessee real estate firm about taking over campus dormitories.
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12/14/2011 - UK negotiates with real estate company to build, run student housing
The University of Kentucky is negotiating with a Memphis-based real estate company to take over its student housing by slowly rebuilding, then managing all of UK's dorms.
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12/09/2011 - States with the Lowest Sales Tax
State tax rate are subject to change when new legislation is introduced. Some states offer tax free holidays for specific purchases on select dates. Kentucky is currently considering such a measure, according to the NKY website. The struggling economy may prompt the State of Washington to enact a temporary increase in the state sales tax, according to the Washington State Government Senate ...
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12/06/2011 - Kentucky 6th from bottom in list of Best Run States [Opinion: The Arena]
by Thomas McAdam The good news is that Kentucky has moved up six ranks on the annual list of best run states in America. The bad news, of course, is this is in comparison to last year, when the Bluegrass State finished dead last. read more
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11/28/2011 - Florence to get new website on Dec. 1
A northern Kentucky city will get a new online presence soon.
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11/11/2011 - Kentucky basketball notes: Lamb earns his reward
Making Kentucky's starting lineup and acquiring prime real estate have a lot in common. A key f
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11/08/2011 - Edelen will take over as Kentucky state auditor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Adam Edelen was elected Kentucky’s auditor of public accounts on Tuesday night, capping a hard-edged campaign against Republican John T. Kemper III that was marked by claims the other carried political baggage.
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11/05/2011 - Frenzied candidates press for votes in final hours
ROGER ALFORD Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Political candidates fanned out across Kentucky in search of votes on the final weekend before a general election that will fill a variety of leadership spots, including governor. Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been hop-scotching the state since Friday holding political rallies at airports. Republican challenger David Williams has concentrated ...
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10/25/2011 - Investment returns fall short at state pension funds, raising concerns
Kentucky's two public pension funds fell well short of their assumed rates of investment return
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10/20/2011 - J. P. King Auction Sells Garvin's 965 Acres for $6.5 Million
BOWLING GREEN, KY-- - Six miles north of the Tennessee-Kentucky border on I-65, 965 acres of development land found new owners at a real estate auction today by J. P. King Auction Company. The land was ...
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10/19/2011 - Owner of troubled properties avoids jail
Lanny Holbrook, whose troubled real estate empire stretches across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, was sentenced Tuesday to 270 days in jail for a fire code and two building code violations at two Cincinnati apartment complexes.
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10/12/2011 - Muhammad Ali Sues for Shoddy Real Estate Deal
Muhammad Ali may not move like he used to but he’s coming out swinging when it comes to allegedly being cheated on a real estate purchase. He and his wife Yolanda bought a home in Kentucky in 2006 and the problems with the property have been causing the “Greatest of All Time” major grief.
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10/10/2011 - Kentucky Mosque Property Sold To Developer
A group that had planned to build a mosque in northern Kentucky has instead sold the property to a developer.
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10/10/2011 - Auditor candidates accuse each other of wrongs
Two Kentucky businessmen who want to be auditor of public accounts squared off in a sometimes contentious debate Monday, accusing each other of a variety of wrongs in a scheduled hourlong exchange piped around the state on public television.
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10/10/2011 - Kentucky Auditor candidates trade accusations
Two Kentucky businessmen who want to be auditor of public accounts squared off in a sometimes contentious debate Monday, accusing each other of a variety of wrongs in a scheduled hourlong exchange piped around the state on public television.
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10/08/2011 - KY Court Weighing Taking Religious Billboard Case
The Kentucky Supreme Court is considering taking on religious billboard case after two lower courts ruled the billboards must be taken down.
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10/08/2011 - Religious Billboards Could Come Down
Some religious billboards are causing some controversy in Kentucky.
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10/08/2011 - Bankruptcy surfaces as issue in auditor's race
The race to become Kentucky's next auditor comes with some unlikely baggage - the bankruptcy of one candidate deep in debt since an ambitious real estate development was torpedoed by a sinking national economy.
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10/06/2011 - Rust speaks on Medicaid to MCCH board
Kentucky Hospital Association President Mike Rust spoke to the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Board of Trustees about the state transition to Medicaid Managed Care during the board’s October meeting,
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10/05/2011 - Hopkinsville woman sentenced for investment scam
A Kentucky woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for her role in an investment scam that defrauded more than 50 victims of nearly $3 million.
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09/30/2011 - Owners say boat to leave Alton
ALTON — The former Boat at the Riverbend, which was unused more than it was open for business at Riverfront Park, was supposed to leave Alton on Friday for its journey south to a port in Kentucky.
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09/27/2011 - More Than 5,529 Acres of Farmland to Sell at Auction in Kentucky, USA
LEXINGTON, KY--(Marketwire - Sep 28, 2011) - More than 5,529 acres of quality Kentucky farmland in the United States will sell in a major farmland auction on Wednesday, Nov. 16. The farmland will be part of an auction that will include several large homes and a state-of-the-art center for showing and selling livestock.
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09/07/2011 - Feds say Nurses' Registry used UK tickets to get patient referrals
A civil complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Lexington-based Nurses' Registry used cash, concert tickets and University of Kentucky basketball tickets to induce doctors to refer patients to the agency.
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08/29/2011 - iLOOKABOUT Announces Louisville Image Capture
LONDON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 29, 2011) - iLOOKABOUT Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ILA) ("iLOOKABOUT" or the "Company") confirms that, through an agreement with Pictometry International, iLOOKABOUT has been contracted to provide StreetScape imagery to Jefferson County, Kentucky (the "County") which includes the City of Louisville. The contract calls for delivery of static imagery for the County's ...
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08/18/2011 - 150 properties up for auction
The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky will sponsor a real estate auction at its Erlanger office on Saturday. Brian Miller, executive vice president of the association, described it as the region's largest real estate auction event.
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08/14/2011 - Kentucky Sisters Seek Social Security Numbers
LONDON, Ky. -- For more than two decades, a pair of sisters in rural Kentucky have lived without Social Security numbers, doing odd jobs like bartending and making jewelry to earn cash under the table. One of them even posed as their mother to gain employment.
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08/11/2011 - Anderson Circle Farm in Harrodsburg going on the auction block
HARRODSBURG — When Harrodsburg native Ralph Anderson died in February at the age of 86, Mercer County lost not only its most illustrious philanthropist and most famous resident since Daniel Boone, but one of Kentucky’s largest landowners.
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08/10/2011 - Liggins coming to Mayfield
Former University of Kentucky standout DeAndre Liggins is coming to west Kentucky. Liggins will be in Mayfield for an autograph signing Saturday, August 20th.
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08/03/2011 - Kaseya Helps University of Kentucky Research Arm Align IT Services to the Organization’s Goals
Kaseya®, the leading global provider of automated IT systems management software, today announced that the University of Kentucky Office of Research Information Services has deployed the Kaseya IT Automation Framework to remotely manage 350 systems dispersed over campus in 45 separate locations.
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08/01/2011 - Storm aid totaling $21 million approved in Ky.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky residents and state and local governments that were affected by severe storms, tornadoes and flooding from April 12 to May 20 have been approved for $21 million in government assistance.
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07/28/2011 - Findlay: Time to raze 'disgraceful' building
Findlay's law director warned a Kentucky real estate investment firm this week that if it does not soon sell its decrepit downtown building, the city will demolish it and assess the company for costs.
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07/26/2011 - Kentuckians Are Renting Homes More Than Buying Them
According to the 2010 Census, the percentage of people renting their homes in Kentucky is up 16 percent from 2000, while those owning their own home only went up five percent.
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07/25/2011 - Census measures the shift in state housing market
The percentage of people renting a place to live went up far more in Kentucky than those buying a ho
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07/23/2011 - Lexington house offers clues into life of little-known yet acclaimed black trainer
Kentucky is hoping to add another thread to the increasingly colorful tapestry of the history of the state's horse industry. The state has applied to have a house at 547 Breckenridge Street added to the National Register of Historic Places because of its link to a largely forgotten African-American horse trainer named Courtney Mathews.
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07/12/2011 - Frontline Real Estate Partners, LLC Engaged to Provide Real Estate Advisory and Disposition Services to Kazi Foods
NORTHBROOK, IL--(Marketwire - 07/12/11) - Frontline Real Estate Partners, LLC , a real estate consulting and advisory firm, announced today that it has been retained to act as real estate advisor for the real estate assets involved in Kazi Foods' Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Kazi Foods, the second-largest Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee and the 11th-largest restaurant franchisee in the ...
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07/06/2011 - Tax Court Values Regional Media Empire
Estate of Louise P. Gallagher, et al. v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2011-148 When Louise Gallagher died in 2004, she was the largest owner of Paxton Media. Based in Paducah, Kentucky, Paxton owns 32 daily newspapers, numerous weeklies and WPSD-TV, an NBC affiliate serving parts of Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri. Ms. Gallagher's 3,970 units constituted 15% of the value of Paxton Media Group LLC ...
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06/29/2011 - The Kentucky Bucket List, Part 2: Reader favorites
Our "Kentucky Bucket List" of 50 experiences every Kentuckian should do, see or have while living in our commonwealth, received tremendous response from readers after it was published June 17. Today, we share 20 readers' suggestions.
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06/29/2011 - Kentucky's bucket list, Part 2: reader favorites
Our "Kentucky Bucket List" of 50 experiences every Kentuckian should do, see or have while living in our commonwealth, received tremendous response from readers after it was published June 17. Today, we share 20 readers' suggestions.
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06/25/2011 - Kentucky Attorney Says Elder Financial Abuse Is A Growing Problem
Older people in Kentucky and their loved ones should be on the lookout for signs of fraud and financial abuse, and report it if it happens, Bowling Green elder abuse lawyers say.
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06/24/2011 - Scott calls for reducing energy-saving rebates | Video
For years, Florida utilities resisted giving rebates that are offered in states like Ohio and Kentucky for devices that save consumers energy and money, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, water-heater blankets, low-flow showerheads and faucet aerators.
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06/20/2011 - Noor deserves a resting place befitting a champion
There are plans to build condominiums on the grounds where the thoroughbred is buried, but $5,000, which the woman leading the effort hopes to raise, will pay to get him a resting place in Kentucky. Poor old Noor should be allowed to rest in peace. He earned that with a thoroughbred racing season in 1950 that track old-timers remember fondly.
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06/18/2011 - Top 100 Camp notes: Star of 2013 class likes Cats
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Chris Walker, one of the nation's top juniors-to-be, said Friday that Kentucky was the leader on his list of possible college choices.
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