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Regional

  • State food prices fall, led by ice cream

    By Janet Patton

    Lexington Herald-Leader

    Food prices in Kentucky in all six food groups fell in the second quarter, according to the Kentucky Farm Bureau Marketbasket Survey.

    It was the first across-the-board decline in more than five years, according to Farm Bureau. The average of $112.70 for 40 basic grocery items was the lowest total since 2010.

    Prices fell $3.57, or 3.1 percenta, from the same list in the first quarter of the year, and they were down 0.3 percent from the second quarter of 2012.

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  • Milton-Madison Bridge salvage operation hits a few snags

    By DAVE TAYLOR

    The Trimble Banner

    Salvage operations to retrieve tangled sections of steel from the navigational channel continued more than a day after a 700-foot section of the 1929 Milton-Madison Bridge was blasted into the Ohio River last week.

    Salvage crews had obtained a permit from the U.S. Coast Guard to close the navigational channel on the Madison side of the river to commercial traffic for a 24-hour period for the purpose of removing the steel truss from the river bottom.

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  • Gardening experts encourage milkweed planting to help monarch butterflies

    By Cheryl Truman

    Lexington Herald-Leader

    PARIS — Here’s your problem, Kentucky gardeners: You’re not growing enough milkweed.

    True, milkweed generally is not a showy plant, and a name that ends with weed isn’t the kind of moniker that sets gardeners’ hearts aflutter. Milkweed is not generally stocked by the big-box stores, because gardeners generally want big, showy blooms.

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  • Officials want more info on proposed pipeline, Owen judge says

    By MARY ALFORD

    Landmark News Service

    Officials from several Kentucky counties are meeting the Bluegrass Pipeline project with skeptic eyes.

    Owen County Judge-Executive  Carolyn Keith said officials simply want more information on the proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas liquids from areas in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to the northeast United States as well as to the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • Ethics watchdog group calls Kentucky governor ‘a clown’

    From The State Journal

    A recent report by a Washington watchdog group has listed Gov. Steve Beshear among the worst governors in the United States and categorized him as a clown.

    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C., released the report earlier this week, assessing U.S. governors on corruption, transparency, partisan politics, pressuring public officials, cronyism, self-enrichment, scandal and mismanagement.

    Beshear ranked seventh on the list for his involvement in the coal industry.

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  • KU offers tips to help beat the heat, save energy in sustained heat waves

    As temperatures continue to rise across the Commonwealth, so can customers’ energy use.

    Although Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas and Electric Company’s power system continues to successfully meet customers’ increased energy demand, the companies encourage customers to take simple energy efficiency steps to help lower energy consumption during a heat wave.

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  • Open testing set for Kentucky Speedway

    The Sept. 20 ZLOOP 150 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards event will mark the tour’s 20th Kentucky Speedway appearance since making its debut on the venue’s 1.5-mile tri-oval in 2000.

    The series will prepare for its Bluegrass State return — it’s been since 2009 — with an open test Thursday, July 18 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., with an hour break for lunch at noon. Media are welcome to attend the session.

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  • Farm bill amendment will allow hemp research

    By Lisa King

    Landmark News Service

    Agriculture officials say they are pleased with newly passed legislation that will allow colleges and universities to grow hemp for research purposes in states where hemp production is allowed by state law.

    The measure was an amendment to the farm bill that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.

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  • State Treasurer warns public to be aware of treasure scammers

    State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach is informing the public that several business firms are using the “Freedom of Information Act” to obtain unclaimed property owner information in order to “sell” individuals an unclaimed property search. 

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  • High river level, current pushes back first demo of Milton-Madison Bridge

    Due to predicted high water levels and a swift current on the Ohio River, demolition of the first section of the old Milton-Madison Bridge has been moved to next week. The blast of the 700-foot span is now scheduled for 9 a.m., Monday, July 22.

    The blast originally was scheduled for Wednesday, July 17. The demolition process will be dependent upon weather and river conditions.

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