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  • Lower lake + higher gas prices = ?

    LAKE CUMBERLAND BUSINESSES WERE HOPING FOR 2008 REBOUND

    Last year, a lot of potential visitors to Lake Cumberland stayed away after the agency that controls the giant reservoir lowered the water level to take pressure off Wolf Creek Dam while it was being repaired.
  • 3 NIU shooting victims get posthumous degrees

    Hundreds of students ran screaming from the lecture hall three months ago to escape a gunman who had opened fire inside. On Saturday, while much of the rest of the Northern Illinois University campus celebrated graduation, a somber Laurel Dubowski stood outside the building's glass doors.
  • More Democratic stops scheduled

    U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will hold a final-push "Get out the vote rally" at Transylvania University at 6:30 p.m. Monday, the evening before Kentucky voters go to the polls. Doors open at the Clive M. Beck Center at 300 Broadway at 4:30 p.m.
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  • She was the queen of gospel music

    She wrote songs with verses that would make Shakespeare smile, and when she was on a stage, she owned it, her friends said Monday.

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