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Recycling downtown will become easier during the next two months as 120 recycling and waste containers are placed throughout the central city.
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Seven Transylvania University students escaped injury early Tuesday morning when the house where they lived at 438 North Broadway caught fire. The fire started in the attic from an electrical short in a light fixture, Battalion Chief Randy Gilliam said. The fire department was called at 3:51 a.m.
Roughly $3 million in state grants is available to animal shelters to help handle the 285,000 animals who become homeless in Kentucky each year, 85 percent of which probably will be euthanized.
WASHINGTON — An American at the center of an international terrorism investigation has been charged with helping plot the 2008 rampage in Mumbai, India, in which 173 people died, according to a Justice Department complaint unsealed Monday.
A baby alligator, a diamondback rattlesnake, six pythons and three chameleons have been found in a University of Arkansas dorm room. Campus police Lt. Gary Crain said Monday the reptiles - and four white mice that were apparently intended as lunch - were found in Maple Hill West.
The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.
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