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NICHOLASVILLE — A candidate for Jessamine County judge-executive paid $733 in fines and court costs last month after pleading guilty to illegally importing protected wildlife into Kentucky.
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As Toyota's Georgetown plant resumed full production Monday after a weeklong shutdown to fix a problem with accelerator pedals, the nation's largest auto insurer revealed it had alerted federal safety regulators on numerous occasions starting in 2007 about reports of unexpected acceleration in the vehicles.
Insight Communications, cable provider for Lexington and other parts of Kentucky, plans to launch a cable television channel this spring that focuses on the Bluegrass State.
As Toyota's Georgetown plant resumed full production Monday after a weeklong shutdown to fix a problem with accelerator pedals, the nation's largest auto insurer revealed it had alerted federal safety regulators on numerous occasions starting in 2007 about reports of unexpected acceleration in the vehicles.
An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of suspicious smells in the last 45 days. A field of oilseed radishes, planted as a cover crop that adds nutrients to the field, is near a natural gas compression station and a gas exchange station.
High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality - including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal - raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday.
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