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I-65 Widening Contract Awarded

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A construction contract to complete the widening of Interstate 65 has been awarded to Scotty’s Contracting and Stone LLC of Glasgow. Scotty’s Contracting submitted the low bid of $68.6 million, some $11 million below the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s own estimate, for the job of widening I-65 from Sonora to the Western Kentucky Parkway interchange at Elizabethtown. The project area is 10 miles long, and the contract calls for completion of the project by November 2018. … [Read more...]

KSP Searching For Missing Russell County Woman

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Kentucky State Police, Post 15 is asking for the public's assistance in locating 24-year-old Whitney Danielle Copley, of Dunnville, KY. Copley was last seen on Wednesday, September 30. It is unknown what she was last wearing. She is a white female, 5' 7" tall, weighing 110 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair. … [Read more...]

EPA Plans Arsenic Clean Up

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says an Ohio County property contaminated with arsenic is about to get cleaned up. Arsenic trioxide levels at the site near the Daviess County line exceed 150,000 milligrams per kilogram. The EPA considers more than 50 milligrams per kilogram to be a high concentration for the area. … [Read more...]

Former Doctor Guilty Of Distributing Painkillers

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A former Georgia doctor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally distribute painkillers in Kentucky. The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Kentucky says 58-year-old Michael Johnston admitted he conspired with the owner of a Georgia pain clinic to distribute thousands of prescription pills to Kentuckians. … [Read more...]

No Shooter Found On JCTC Campus

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Kentucky authorities say a report of shots fired on a college campus turned out to be unfounded. Louisville police gave students at the Jefferson Community and Technical College the all-clear Friday afternoon, about an hour after they received a call about an "active aggressor" on campus. … [Read more...]

Runner Injured In Hit-and-run

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An Elizabethtown man out for a morning run was struck by a passing car on the U.S. 31W Bypass at College Street Road Friday morning. According to the Elizabethtown Police Department, 54 year-old Derrick Dennison was on the southbound shoulder of the bypass when he was hit and the driver did not stop. … [Read more...]

Panel Sorts Water Testing Policies

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A commission monitoring pollution in the Ohio River says testing for mercury released into the water will be determined on a state-by-state basis, instead of a comprehensive plan. The multistate Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission decided Thursday that states along the waterway will decide where and how companies do testing to gauge discharged mercury. The commission says that won't increase levels of the neurotoxin in the river, but some environmental advocates disagree. Mercury has been pumped into the water for years from steel factories, power plants and other sources and can make fish unsafe to eat. The amounts of mercury released are subject to regulatory limits based on tests by the companies, which sometimes do their testing in areas where pollution can be diluted. Source: AP … [Read more...]