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$61M relief for Kentucky homeowners under national mortgage settlement
Jack Conway announced today that the nation's five largest mortgage servicers continue to provide direct relief to homeowners in Kentucky and across the country as part of the historic national mortgage foreclosure settlement. According to the fourth post-settlement report released today by the independent settlement monitor, 1,757 Kentucky homeowners received more than $61.1 million in ...
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Stock indexes close higher on hopes for Fed
Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street as investors bank on continued support from the Federal Reserve.The Dow Jones industrial average rose 52 points to close at 15,387 Tuesday, an increase of 0.3 percent.The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose three points to 1,669, or 0.2 percent. The Nasdaq composite rise five to 3,502, or 0.2 percent.Stock indexes wobbled between gains and losses in ...
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Richie Farmers sister resigns state position
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer's sister has resigned as assistant executive director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.Rhonda Monroe had been placed on paid leave on March 19, a day after she and Farmer were charged by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission with filing false documents that allowed Farmer to claim excess expenses from his 2007 ...
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Madison County sheriff collapses dies
BEREA, Ky. - Madison County officials say Sheriff Jerry R. Combs has died after suffering a heart attack.Deputy Willard Reardon told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the 61-year-old Combs collapsed at his parents' home in Berea, where he was tilling their garden, just after 8 p.m. EDT Monday. He was pronounced dead an hour and a half later at St. Joseph Hospital-Berea.Chief Deputy Mike ...
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Corn falls after farmers catch up on planting
Corn is falling after U.S. farmers planted record amounts of corn last week, easing concern that earlier delays to planting would harm this year's ...
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The new consoles from Microsoft Nintendo and Sony
NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. Tuesday's unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from ...
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Dozen arrests at mine worker rally
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Another round of protests involving United Mine Workers of America and their supporters results in about a dozen arrests in downtown St. ...
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NJs Revel casino exits bankruptcy court
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Revel, a brand new but struggling Atlantic City casino, has formally emerged from bankruptcy.Just 13 months after it opened with sky-high hopes, the casino got out of bankruptcy court Tuesday. The pre-planned Chapter 11 filing wiped out $1.2 billion of the casino's $1.5 billion in debt by giving lenders an 82 percent ownership stake.Jeffrey Hartmann, the ...
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JPMorgan Directors Glance How shareholders voted
Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase voted to let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of the nation's largest bank, keep both his jobs Tuesday. Dimon also received strong support to be re-elected to the bank's board of directors.Three directors - James Crown, David Cote and Ellen Futter - received the backing of less than 60 percent of shareholders. Shareholder advisory firms had urged that ...
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Balancing Act Young entrepreneurs redefining work world
On a recent college tour with my teenage son, a professor at a Florida university gave him pointed advice: "Don't expect to get a job at a company. You're going to need to be an entrepreneur." It caught me off guard, but my son didn't react. He took it as a given. As college graduates don their robes and caps, they are a generation headed into the real world with a ...
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House passes 2-year moratorium on dam barriers
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The U.S. House has passed legislation that would put a two-year moratorium on an Army Corps of Engineers plan to erect barriers to prevent people from fishing below dams on the Cumberland River.U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield heralded final passage of the Freedom to Fish Act on Tuesday. Whitfield was a leading proponent of the measure in the House.The bill, introduced by Sen. Lamar ...
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Beshear names replacement for tourism secretary
FRANKFORT, Ky. - A former gubernatorial aide to three governors will take over as tourism secretary on June 1.Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday that Bob Stewart is his pick to replace Marcheta Sparrow, who is retiring at the end of the month.Stewart served more than 10 years as Kentucky's commissioner of travel beginning in 1992. He also has served as executive assistant to Govs. Brereton ...
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Ky. protesters take aim at IRS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Tea party activists rallied Tuesday outside a federal building in downtown Louisville, chanting it's time for the IRS to go because of its extra scrutiny of conservative groups.Some waved flags and others held signs saying an apology isn't enough as dozens of protesters expressed outrage at the IRS.Kelly Khuri of Jeffersonville, Ind., drew cheers as she called the IRS ...
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2 Eastern Livestock officials sentenced to prison
Both men were charged with running a scheme to deposit billions of dollars' worth of checks issued from various bank accounts, even though there wasn't enough cash on hand to cover the checks. In doing so, the company got Fifth Third Bank to release more funds from Eastern Livestock's $32 million line of ...
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Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment
Microsoft Corp.'s Don Mattrick unveils the next-generation Xbox entertainment and gaming console system, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at an event in Redmond, Wash.I t's been eight years since the launch of the Xbox 360. The original Xbox debuted in 2001, and its high-definition successor premiered in 2005. (AP Photo/Ted S. ...
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United Tech CEO sees stronger economy airlines
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The chief executive of aerospace giant United Technologies Corp. is optimistic about an improving economy and airline ...
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Laurence named publisher of Richmond Register
RICHMOND, Ky. - Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. has named Ann Laurence publisher of the Richmond Register.The newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/10ivbEN) Laurence began her new responsibilities Monday.Since 2005, she has been publisher of The News Courier in Athens, Ala., where she oversaw daily newspaper operations that included digital, print and niche publications. She joined CNHI in ...
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...
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JPMorgans Dimon survives shareholder referendum
Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase will let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO, keep both his jobs.At the bank's annual meeting, 32 percent of shareholders voted for a measure that would have required the bank to split the roles. Had the measure succeeded, Dimon would have had to relinquish the role of chairman.Shareholder groups lobbying for the split gained momentum from last year's ...
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Germanys SAP to recruit tech staff with autism
BERLIN -- German software giant SAP AG says it plans to recruit hundreds of staff with autism to make full use of their talents to process information.Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communicating, emotional detachment and rigid or repetitive behavior.But some people with autism can perform complex mathematical tasks much better than the average ...
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Herbalife names Pricewaterhouse new auditor
LOS ANGELES - Herbalife Ltd. says it has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to be its new auditor.The nutrition company's previous auditor KPMG resigned last month after insider trading allegations against a rogue executive of the accounting firm. The former KPMG partner, Scott London, has been charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud.KPMG's resignation came at a sensitive time for ...
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Spotifys Top 10 most viral tracks
FILE - This June 6, 2010 file photo shows Ivan Moody of the U.S. band Five Finger Death Punch performing during the music festival Rock am Ring at the Nuerburgring Race Track, Nuerburg in western Germany. Five Finger Death Punch's, "Lift Me Up," was the most viral track on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, ...
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Oil slips as traders wait for Fed supply data
BANGKOK - The price of oil fell to near $96 per barrel Tuesday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for June delivery was down 60 cents to $96.11 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 69 cents to close at $96.71 on Monday.On Wednesday, Fed chairman Ben ...
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Pickup driver dies in Fleming County wreck
A man from Ewing died early Monday in a collision with a tractor-trailer in Fleming County.Harold McIntyre, 60, was driving a 1987 Chevrolet pickup east on U.S. 68 when it crossed the center line and hit the tractor-trailer, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police.McIntyre was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer, Terry Vice, 63, of Maysville, was taken ...
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Campbellsville man sentenced to 110 years in prison for making child pornography
A Taylor County man who used cell phones to take photos of himself molesting girls younger than 5 was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison, according to a news release from David J. Hale, U.S. Attorney for Western Kentucky.Tony Edwin Davis, 50, of Campbellsville pleaded guilty to producing and possessing child pornography.Federal authorities started investigating Davis after someone who had ...
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Louisville recieves grant to redress racial legacy
The history of Louisville is a story of courage, human tenacity and vision, oppression, redemption, slavery and equality. Modern day Louisville has political and legal equality enshrined in its culture like any other major city in the modern world, but the blight of racism remains, in the socio-economic character of the city.
Fortunately, the W.K Kellogg Foundation is playing a part, along with many other organizations on a local and national level, in providing the city with the societal progress needed to eliminate those legacies that linger from the past, the legacy of the slave trade, of the civil rights movement and the violence and backward tendencies that accompanied them. Read more
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