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The Nest Center for Women, Children & Families, a Lexington non-profit social service agency, is closing its most highly visible program — a respite day care.
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In a three-month span 15 years ago, both the state auditor and a legislative investigations panel published scathing reports pointing out "loose control" at the Kentucky Association of Counties and offering a host of recommendations to fix it.
BUTTERFLY — Elijah Fugate's first bonus from the coal company whose name nobody can remember was spent on the Butterfly Church of the Living God.
FORT CAMPBELL — With a fattened G.I. Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly half a million. That's left many universities looking for ways to ease the transition from combat to the classroom.
Two orange lobsters that look as though they've just emerged from a steamer pot are definitely alive and pinching in Maine.
A 265-pound (120-kilogram), big-eared and long-nosed bundle of joy was welcomed in Australia as an important step in helping to save the endangered Asian elephant.
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