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The demolition of Haggin Hall in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday May 21, 2013. Photo by Tessa Lighty | Staff

Haggin Hall demolition

Demolition began on the University of Kentucky's Haggin Hall.

Zac Woodcock salvages items from the rubble of a tornado-ravaged rental home which they own Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Tuesday: Oklahoma tornado aftermath

See photos as the search for victims and efforts to dig out continued Tuesday in Oklahoma.

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Jessica Noto served Jordan Todd from a truck parked outside West Sixth Brewing Company on Thursday. The proposed ordinance would allow food trucks in metered public parking spaces in some downtown locations. Councilwoman Shevawn Akers said she plans to bring up the proposal at next week's session, with passage possible in early June.

Lexington food trucks pilot program to go before council for first reading

Urban County Council members at Tuesday's work session voted to move forward a proposed six-month pilot program to create five food truck zones downtown... 27 minutes ago

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Ole Miss shortstop Alex Yarbrough throws to first to complete a double play after forcing UK's 11- Cameron Flynn at second on a ball hit by Zac Zellers in the bottom of the 8th inning as UK played Ole Miss in SEC baseball at Cliff Hagan Stadium in Lexington, Ky., Saturday, April 07, 2012. Charles Bertram | Staff

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family.

Appreciation: The Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013

During the lifespan of The Doors, Ray Manzarek managed the impossible. He fashioned an instrumental voice that stood out in a band fronted by one of...

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Ed and Kay Thomas watched Scott Clark dig for a piece of metal his detector had indicated was several inches below ground at the base of an old bur oak near their circa 1810 farmhouse in Bourbon County. Photo by Tom Eblen | teblen@herald-leader.com

Tom Eblen: Metal detectorist finds hidden treasure on Bourbon County farm

Scott Clark, an Internet business consultant in Lexington, has been an avid metal detectorist since 1985. And he has become quite skilled at it &mdash...

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FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, show attendees walk past Microsoft XBox booth at E3 2012 in Los Angeles. With the next Xbox expected to finally be revealed Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., anticipation for what the company is planning for the next iteration of its gaming console is higher than Master Chief's last spaceship.

Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment

Microsoft thinks it has the one.

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FILE - In this May 15, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit.

IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 - in the heat of the presidential campaign - that agents...

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