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Jennifer Palumbo to anchor WKYT newscast
Longtime Lexington news anchor Jennifer Palumbo will begin leading a 4 p.m. weekday newscast on WKYT (Channel 27) in addition to anchoring the 10 p.m. newscast on sister channel WDKY (Channel 56).Palumbo got her start at WYMT in 1994, and then moved to WKYT, where she worked her way up from weekend producer to weekday anchor. She took a break from the business in 2005, returning in 2007 for the ...
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Yahoo CEO to announce something special in NYC
NEW YORK - Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising to unveil "something special" Monday in New York as she tries to attract more traffic and advertising to the Internet company.The Sunnyvale, Calif., company gave no further details Friday other than that Mayer will be discussing a product. Reporters are being invited to attend the 5 p.m. event at a lounge located in New York's Times ...
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Police perimeter set up in Shively
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A portion of Dixie Highway and several surrounding roads are shut down due to a police situation. According to MetroSafe, around 4:30 p.m. Friday Shively police were dispatched to a home in the 2900 block of Dixie Highway. Police have surrounded the home and believe a suspect in connection the shooting death of Gloria Ross, 48, may be inside. According to the ...
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NewsRight dismantles transfers brand to Moreover
NEW YORK - NewsRight, an organization created to turn unauthorized publishers of newspaper content on the Internet into licensed customers, said it is disbanding and transferring its operations to Moreover Technologies, which monitors how Moreover's clients are portrayed in the media.NewsRight said that Moreover will get the NewsRight brand and will offer new contracts to the ...
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Man accused of stalking Jennifer Lawrences family
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Canadian man is accused of stalking and harassing the family of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and is awaiting a July 23 trial date in the Jefferson County jail.Officials allege 23-year-old Han Cong Zhao contacted Lawrence's brother, Blaine, more than 200 times before flying to Louisville April 18 and that he continued trying to contact him when Zhao was ...
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Todays retirees face declining standard of living study says
The retirement crisis is deepening, with recent generations of Americans less financially prepared for their golden years than their parents or grandparents, according to a new study. The study by the Pew Charitable Trusts suggests that people who retire in the next quarter-century could suffer declining standards of living compared with earlier generations, a rare and troubling phenomenon in ...
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US stocks rise on hopeful signs for the US economy market rises for a fourth week straight
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Encouraging news about the U.S. economy is extending the stock market's rally. U.S. stock indexes rose for the fourth week in a row and are at record levels. A gauge of future economic activity rose more than analysts had expected, as did a measure of consumer confidence. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 121 points to close at 15,354 Friday, an increase of 0.8 per ...
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Pew survey questions Gen X baby boomer savings
NEW YORK -- A research report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says younger baby boomers and Generation Xers face an uncertain retirement because of reduced savings, high levels of debt, and losses during the Great Recession.The study found that members of Generation X, who are now between 38 and 47 years old, lost almost half their wealth between 2007 and 2010. Young baby boomers, who are between ...
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Buybacks are a big factor behind stock market boom
NEW YORK -- It's the narcissist rally.Sure, there are plenty of forces pushing stocks higher - record corporate earnings, small investors finally buying again, signs the U.S. economy may be strengthening, central banks flooding the financial system with money.But you may want to spare a thought, and a healthy dose of worry, for what is one of the biggest, and least appreciated, reasons for ...
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Groups divided on Bangladesh safety overhauls
NEW YORK -- The nation's largest retail industry organization fired back Friday, outlining reasons why a legally binding global pact to make Bangladesh clothing factories safer would expose merchants to undue legal exposure. The move came as U.S. retailers face increasing pressure from a large coalition of religious groups and investors to work together to develop a plan."It is a very ...
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News Summary Stocks gain for fourth straight week
RARE DROP: Signs of a slowing economy combined with comments from a Federal Reserve official helped pull the stock market down Thursday. It was only the third drop for the S&P 500 index this month.THE NEWS: Applications for unemployment benefits rose last week and manufacturing slowed in the mid-Atlantic region. Wal-Mart Stores sank after warning of weaker earnings ahead.FINAL SCORE: The Dow ...
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Review Toshiba brings high-res screen to Windows
NEW YORK - Last year, Apple added a visually stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display.Does this mean Windows users can let go of MacBook envy? Sort of. The jump in resolution with the Toshiba ...
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Hits and misses in Facebooks history
Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.The social network's market value was more than $100 billion.Now, Facebook's stock is trading roughly 30 percent lower and has not hit its IPO price of $38 per share. Today, Facebook is valued at around $63 billion.In the year since its initial ...
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Amber Alert issued for Ga. toddler could be traveling through Ky.
Police have issued an Amber Alert for a Georgia toddler who allegedly was abducted by her father and could be in severe danger. The pair could be travelling through Kentucky - they have family in Michigan, according to an alert from the emergency broadcast system that interrupted cable programming in Lexington and surrounding areas. According to Georgia police, Sorelle Torrez, 2, was abducted by ...
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Affidavit Army sex assault manager threatened ex
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - A police affidavit in the stalking case of an Army officer who manages the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell says Lt. Col. Darin Haas threatened to kill his ex-wife in text messages.According to the affidavit, obtained by WSMV-TV, Alissa Owen told police on Wednesday that Haas had been sending threatening text messages since Nov. 2011, shortly ...
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How the Dow Jones industrial average fared Friday
Signs of a slowing economy combined with comments from a Federal Reserve official helped pull the stock market down Thursday.The news on the U.S. economy gave investors little to get excited about. Applications for unemployment benefits rose last week and manufacturing slowed in the mid-Atlantic region. Wal-Mart Stores sank after warning of weaker earnings ahead.The Dow Jones industrial average ...
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Bill clears House for wider SEC economic analyses
WASHINGTON - Legislation cleared the House on Friday that would place stricter requirements on the federal agency overseeing Wall Street to assess the costs and benefits of its regulations before they are issued.The bill passed on a 235-161 vote mostly on party lines. It was the latest salvo against the Securities and Exchange Commission by House Republicans, who opposed the 2010 financial ...
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Charasika to succeed Ferreri as Enterprise Corp. executive director
Tendai Charasika has succeeded Bobby Ferreri as executive director of Greater Louisville Inc.'s Enterprise Corp. He shown here in a 2010 photo that accompanied an article on his Forty Under 40 recognition. Tendai Charasika has succeeded Bobby Ferreri as executive director of Greater Louisville Inc.'s Enterprise Corp., an agency that supports entrepreneurship and fast-growth ...
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Syrian hackers compromise FT blog Twitter feeds
A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels.A few of the FT's dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs broadcast messages supporting Syrian ...
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A year after IPO Facebook aims to be ad colossus
FILE - In this May 18, 2012, file photo, provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Amid the hype and excitement surrounding Facebook's initial public offering, there were looming doubts. Potential investors wondered whether the social network could ...
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Gold prices sink for seventh day near April low
Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news.Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the recent low of $1,352 it reached April 15, after a two-day plunge knocked $200 off its price.Investors have been pulling out of the gold market as the stock ...
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Cyprus drops limits on 8 more foreign banks
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Cyprus has eliminated limits on money transfers and withdrawals for international clients of another eight foreign banks doing business in the debt-laden country.The Finance Ministry said Friday that the capital control exemptions now apply to Lebanon's Banque Bemo, BBAC, Credit Libanais and Bank of Beirut, France-based Banque SBA, Britain's Barclays, Jordan's ...
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Transocean shareholders oust chairman
NEW YORK - Transocean Ltd. shareholders have voted out the oil drilling company's chairman and backed one of the nominees put forth by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.But the oil drilling said Friday that its stockholders decided against Icahn's proposal for a $4 dividend.Under intense pressure from Icahn, J. Michael Talbert had already said that he would retire as chairman by ...
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Kentucky tourism secretary retiring this month
FRANKFORT, Ky. - A member of Gov. Steve Beshear's cabinet, Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Marcheta Sparrow, is retiring at the end of May.A statement from Beshear's office on Friday said Sparrow plans to spend more time with her family, pursue new interests and become more involved in her hometown of Harrodsburg.Beshear's statement said Sparrow began her career as a tour ...
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6 charged with dealing 4800 pounds of marijuana
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Federal officials have arrested six people and charged them with hauling 4,890 pounds of marijuana to Kentucky for packaging and ...
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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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