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Cam Ward throws for 4 touchdowns, No. 6 Miami survives Louisville comeback bids for wild 52-45 win
By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Cam Ward's offensive line gave him plenty of time to throw on some big plays. On others, he created the extra time he needed to find his target on his own.The combination kept No. 6 Miami ahead and eventually created opportunities for...
Paducah Police Dept. to Host 2024 Resource Expo and DEA Drug Take Back Day
PADUCAH, Ky. — The Paducah Police Department invites the community to attend the 2024 Paducah Police Department Resource Expo and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Drug Take Back Day. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet community partners and learn about available resources. In...
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Traffic Signals at Two U.S. 45-Business (Kentucky Ave) Intersections To Be Studied for Removal
Signals to be placed in flash mode for 90 days PADUCAH, Ky. (July 26, 2024) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans to place two traffic signals along U.S. 45-Business (Kentucky Avenue)...
Traffic Signals at Two U.S. 45-Business (Kentucky Ave) Intersections To Be Studied for Removal
Signals to be placed in flash mode for 90 days PADUCAH, Ky. (July 26, 2024) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans to place two traffic signals along U.S. 45-Business (Kentucky...
Extended Closures of U.S. 60 West of Marion in Crittenden County Over About 4 Days starting Wednesday, July 31
Closures at 5mm and 8mm planned in two phases PADUCAH, Ky. (News First) – As a reminder, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans extended closures along U.S. 60 West of Marion in Crittenden...
Traffic Paint Striping Crew Working along Interstate 24 in Kentucky Through Next Week
Watch for paint trucks and support vehicles PADUCAH, Ky. (July 25, 2024) – A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has started traffic paint striping along Interstate...
Murray PD Recovers Two Stolen E-Bikes
MURRAY, Ky. — While investigating the theft of an electric bike, officers with the Murray Police Department gained information on its location. Upon arrival, the stolen e-bike was found to be in the...
UPDATE: Kentucky State Police Investigate Fatal Shooting in Trigg County
UPDATE CADIZ, Ky. (July 24, 2024) – Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 1 has continued the investigation into a shooting that occurred in Trigg County on July 20, 2024. The deceased has been...
Livingston County Sheriff’s Weekly Activity
On July 21st, 2024, law enforcement officers from the Livingston County and Lyon County Sheriff’s Offices, alongside members of the Western Kentucky Violent Crime Task Force, successfully executed a...
Class #7 of the Citizen’s Academy Now Accepting Applications
MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (News First) — The McCracken County Sheriff's Office is now accepting applications for Class #7 of the Citizen's Academy. The academy will take place on October 17, 24, 30 (the...
Walmart Drive to Close for Stormwater Infrastructure Installation
MURRAY, KY (News First) — Walmart Drive will be closed to thru traffic from Lowes Drive to Highway 121 beginning Wednesday, July 24, at 7 a.m. The closure, located just south of the entrance to...
North 1st Street to Close for Repairs Beginning Today
MURRAY, KY (News First) — North 1st Street will be closed to thru traffic beginning today, July 23, at 7 a.m. and will remain closed through Friday, July 26, at 5 p.m. due to street and pavement...
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Kentucky GOP lawmakers remove Democratic governor’s role in filling US Senate vacancies
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the...
KY 1485/Bellville Road Closed at Terrapin Creek Bridge near 2 Mile Marker in Graves County
Closure due to deterioration of bridge substructure PADUCAH, Ky. (April 12, 2024) – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has closed a section of KY 1485/Bellville Road in southern Graves County until further notice. KY 1485/Bellville Road is...
Mark Pope introduced as Kentucky’s coach, affirms expectation that ‘We are here to win banners’
By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — One of the last players to exit a bus full of Kentucky greats on the Rupp Arena floor, Mark Pope held the 1996 NCAA championship trophy aloft and basked in the cheers during his introduction as the Wildcats' new...
Attorney General Coleman Calls for Resignation of Perry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Arrested by FBI
FRANKFORT, Ky. (News First) -- Attorney General Russell Coleman released the following statement after the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky Carlton S. Shier, IV, announced the arrest of Commonwealth's Attorney for the 33rd Judicial District Scott...
Hopkinsville Police Department Searching For Missing Person
Hopkinsville, Kentucky (NewsFirst) -- The Hopkinsville Police Department needs your help finding two juveniles who went missing during the overnight hours. The first juvenile is Ashley Schimp. She is a 15 year old white female, 5’3” in height weighing approximately...
Marshall County Rescue Squad Rescues Stranded Boater
Marshall County, Kentucky (NewsFirst) -- At approximately 12:48 Saturday April 13 2024 Marshall County Rescue Squad was paged out for a boat that was believed to be taking on water next to the spill gates. The 911 call was placed by a wife that had been talking to her...
Ex-NBA player scores victory with Kentucky bill to expand coverage for stuttering treatment
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former basketball star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored a victory Thursday as a leading advocate for a new Kentucky law that will expand insurance coverage for people seeking treatment for...
‘I’m dying, you’re not’: Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America - DENVER (AP) — On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death. She’ll probably miss his high school graduation. Death doesn't frighten her much....
O.J. Simpson Dead at 76
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but was found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. The family announced on Simpson's...
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Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot
By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Where will you be watching the April 8 total solar eclipse? There are just a few weeks left to pick your spot to see the skies darken along a strip of North America, whether by land, sea or air. For...
How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will apes sing odd notes? Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’...
Rupert Murdoch, 92, plans to marry for 5th time
By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his representative said Saturday. He plans to marry Elena Zhukova, 67, a Russian-born retired scientist he met last year. Her ex-husband...
DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout, report says
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press -- SEATTLE (AP) — The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane this January, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing...
Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as Caribbean leaders call an emergency meeting Monday
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an...
‘Oppenheimer’ set to overpower at the Oscars Sunday night
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the blockbuster biopic is widely expected to overpower all competition — including its release-date companion, “Barbie” — at an...
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the...
80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a...
A US ship with equipment for building a pier is on its way to Gaza, part of a plan to ramp up aid
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to...
Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot
By STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Where will you be watching the April 8 total solar eclipse? There are just a few weeks left to pick your spot to see the skies darken along a strip of North America, whether by land, sea or air. For...
How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will apes sing odd notes? Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’...
Rupert Murdoch, 92, plans to marry for 5th time
By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his representative said Saturday. He plans to marry Elena Zhukova, 67, a Russian-born retired scientist he met last year. Her ex-husband...
DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout, report says
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press -- SEATTLE (AP) — The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane this January, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing...
Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as Caribbean leaders call an emergency meeting Monday
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an...
‘Oppenheimer’ set to overpower at the Oscars Sunday night
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the blockbuster biopic is widely expected to overpower all competition — including its release-date companion, “Barbie” — at an...
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the...
80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a...
A US ship with equipment for building a pier is on its way to Gaza, part of a plan to ramp up aid
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to...