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Taylorsville man accused of raping child
A man from Taylorsville has been indicted on charges of rape, sexual abuse of a child and having materials portraying a sexual performance by a minor.A grand jury in Spencer County returned the indictment against Robert Michael Howard, 43, on Friday, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police. Howard faces one count of first-degree rape, one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a ...
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Housing recovery boosts Home Depot 1Q results
ATLANTA (AP) - Even though the weather was poor, Home Depot posted an 18 percent increase in its net income for the first quarter thanks to the ongoing housing recovery. Its quarterly results topped Wall Street's view and the world's biggest home improvement chain boosted its full-year earnings and revenue forecasts Tuesday. Shares climbed 4 percent in premarket trading. For the ...
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Burberrys profit hit by perfume deals demise
I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be ...
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Ramps at I-64 and Hurstbourne Ln. closed after mail truck catches fire
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Drivers were expected to encounter problems Tuesday morning in the area of Interstate 64 and Hurstbourne Lane after a semi carrying mail caught fire and ...
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State worker accused of directing subordinate to place hundreds of bets
FRANKFORT - The superintendent of the Adair Youth Development Center faces ethics charges for allegedly directing a state employee to research and place illegal bets on sporting events for him while the employee was working. The Executive Branch Ethics Commission accused Dewayne Mills on Monday of instructing a subordinate at the treatment center for juveniles to place bets - anywhere from $25 ...
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Large collection of Filipino swords stolen from chaplains home
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – For more than a decade a Louisville chaplain has collected ancient swords and daggers, but he recently came home and discovered his house burglarized and his special collection was gone. Most of these weapons are 100 to 300 years old. Besides the swords, the thief only got a way with a couple gold rings which is making police wonder if they knew what they were ...
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Louisville trucking company cited for keeping food at 77 degrees
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Indiana State Police officers are working to keep the food we eat safe. As semis carry food from point A to point B, the trailers are required to be at 41 degrees, but a Louisville company has been found to have temperatures nearly doubling that.Everyday, thousands of semis go through Kentuckiana carrying everything imaginable, but there's growing concern when it ...
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30 teachers laid off in Oldham County
GOSHEN, KY (WAVE) – Thirty teachers were cut from Oldham County Schools. This is just one part of a decision made by the Board of Education in order to cut $3.3 million out of its budget. The school board approved a tentative budget on Monday with these lay-offs included. The laid off teachers were all notified last week. Superintendent Dr. Will Wells said special education and ...
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Kentucky regularly pays workers not to work
FRANKFORT, KY (WAVE) - Maybe you heard of the Kentucky juvenile justice worker who was accused of the rape and sodomy of a boy she was supposed to be counseling. What you didn't hear was that counselor Gerri Mesmer was sent home before she was fired, and paid for four-and-a-half months, collecting more than $14,000. Maybe you heard about the Kentucky conservation officer fired and fined ...
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British inflation eases by more than expected
LONDON -; Official figures show that consumer price inflation in Britain eased in April, largely on the back of lower fuel prices and ...
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SBA starting new lending program for veterans
NEW YORK - The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.The agency said Tuesday it's starting a program, the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, aimed at increasing lending to veteran-owned businesses by 5 percent a year for the next five years. The 20 major banks known as SBA National Lending Partners are making the ...
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More troops due back at Fort Campbell
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- Families and friends will be meeting loved ones this week at Fort Campbell, where more soldier are returning to the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee from ...
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Dalai Lama to spread message to students
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Dalai Lama is spreading his message of non-violence and compassion to a group of Kentucky students.The Nobel laureate is scheduled to speak to middle and high school students Tuesday morning at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville.It will help cap his three-day visit to Kentucky's largest city.The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists began his visit to ...
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2 Eastern Livestock officials to be sentenced
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Two former officials of defunct cattle broker Eastern Livestock are set to be sentenced for their roles in a $32 million check-kiting scheme.U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell is set to pass sentence on Eastern Livestock founder Thomas "Tommy" Gibson and Chief Financial Officer Michael Steven McDonald on Tuesday in Louisville.Gibson and McDonald pleaded guilty to ...
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Help The Victims Of The Oklahoma Tornadoes
A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...
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Mark Story This is a confusing time for Kentucky NCAA schools not named UK or U of L
Rumblings that the five "Rockefeller conferences" of major college sports - the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC - may secede from the rest of the NCAA have never been louder. The launch of the new $EC Network symbolizes a financial gulf between the haves of Division I college sports and everyone else that is ever-widening.For those Division I schools outside of the ...
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Henryville principal plans to go to Oklahoma to help victims
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - In the aftermath of the deadly tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, our thoughts go back to Henryville, Indiana where a tornado hit last year and the first focus seemed to be the same: The children. Everyone wanted to know how are the children who got on the school bus when the tornado hit and how the children were who took cover at the school. In Moore some of the ...
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Average credit card debt late payments fall in 1Q
LOS ANGELES -- Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax returns to tackle their holiday season debt.The rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 0.69 percent in the first quarter from 0.85 percent a year earlier - drop of nearly 19 percent, credit reporting agency ...
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Highlands apartment catches fire
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Louisville Fire and Rescue crews responded to an apartment fire in the Highlands Monday night. According to MetroSafe, the fire started in the 1000 block of Cherokee Road at 10:30 p.m. When crews arrived on the scene they discovered the fire was in the third floor and the attic of the complex. The residents inside the complex were able to escape and no injuries ...
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Summer warehouse jobs in Louisville still available for 18-21 year olds
Despite a strong response from job-seekers, more than 200 warehouse jobs are still available in the Louisville area and a new registration opportunity is ...
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2 JCPS buses semi involved in accident
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Two Jefferson County Public School buses were involved in an minor accident with a semi Monday morning. The accident happened around 8:30 a.m. on Bluegrass Avenue at Taylor Boulevard. According to a JCPS spokesperson, the semi driver tried to pass the buses, which were lined up in front of each other, and clipped the mirrors of bus number 0261 and bus number 0541 ...
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school
Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ...
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Yahoo reboots Flickr offers 1 terabyte of storage
Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ...
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Lew taps government retiree pension fund
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says he will begin tapping into two government employee retirement funds to buy more time before the U.S. Treasury is faced with the prospect of defaulting on the national debt.In a letter to congressional leaders, Lew said Monday that he would begin tapping the civil service retirement and disability fund and a similar fund that covers retired postal ...
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Warren Buffett enjoys playing salesman-in-chief
RALSTON, Neb. -- Billionaire Warren Buffett isn't just Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO. He's also the chief salesman.Buffett visited a Dairy Queen in Ralston, Neb., Monday evening to serve up the restaurant chain's new S'mores Blizzard flavor that will be available nationwide June 1. Then he ate ice cream for the cameras.Berkshire owns Minneapolis-based Dairy ...
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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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