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    <title><![CDATA[2 die in southern Ky. blaze]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:47 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Kentucky State Police say a fire at a southern Kentucky home killed a disabled teen and his caregiver and injured another person.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ky. lawmakers join challenge to health care reform]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:01 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Nearly all of Kentucky's state-level Republican lawmakers have signed a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Amish man's letters sway lawmakers on buggy issue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:12 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The simple, heart-felt letters of an old-fashioned Amish man are being credited for the Senate's quick passage of a bill that would allow Kentucky's Amish residents to use reflective tape on their horse-drawn buggies instead of the bright orange triangular signs that they object to on religious grounds.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[W. Ky. dealing with series of pharmacy thefts]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:01 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Business owners in western Kentucky are expressing concern after a series of burglaries and robberies at pharmacies in the region.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[2 eastern Ky. teens discover pulsars]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:56 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A second eastern Kentucky high school student has made an astronomical discovery.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Quality rankings for Central Kentucky nursing homes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:18 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[These are quarterly rankings of nursing homes in Fayette and five surrounding counties. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ranked them based on health inspections, staffing and quality measures.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Laurel man on home incarceration used 4-wheeler for attempted home invasion, police say]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064962/laurel-man-on-home-incarceration.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Laurel County man on home incarceration has been charged in connection with an attempted home invasion for which he allegedly used a four-wheeler, police said.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[DNA test sought in '92 case of 'satanic' slaying]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:10 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE   When Rhonda Sue Warford died in a rural field near Brandenburg, she had multiple stab wounds to her chest, back and neck, including one that destroyed her brain stem, and two gray hairs clenched in her right hand.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[McDonald's strip-search hoax turned into movie]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:07 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The perverse tale of blind obedience to authority first unfolded eight years ago in a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky., just south of Louisville, when an 18-year-old employee was subjected to a humiliating strip search orchestrated by a prank caller pretending to be a cop.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Horse Park falls into deficit in recent years]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/12/2065432/horse-parks-budget-in-the-red.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:58 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Kentucky Horse Park had its biggest year ever in 2010, hosting the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games with an array of new facilities and upgraded infrastructure. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Almost half of Fayette students rely on free or reduced-cost school meals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:50 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Fayette County's public schools are closing in on a milestone that no one is happy about.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Teen's condition improves to serious condition after sled crash]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2065241/teens-condition-improves-to-serious.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:12 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The condition of 13-year-old boy who suffered severe head trauma in a saucer sled crash had improved to serious on Saturday night.<br/>
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The boy was being treated at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital. Earlier Saturday, the boy was listed in critical condition.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WEG ended 2010 with financial loss despite aid from Lyons, Princess Haya]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:58 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, once lauded as likely to be the first championships of its kind to make money, apparently fell shy of that mark despite last-minute help from sponsor Pearse Lyons and FEI's president, Princess Haya. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[American flight makes emergency landing in Ky.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:16 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bye-bye mild winter; cold snap hits Ky.]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064799/bye-bye-mild-winter-cold-snap.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:46 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some of the coldest weather of the winter was expected in eastern Kentucky on Saturday night.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ashland reaches settlement with firefighters]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064669/ashland-reaches-settlement-with.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:01 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The city of Ashland has reached a settlement over unpaid overtime for 59 firefighters.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[WKU's 'Rock House' to be demolished]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064652/wkus-rock-house-to-be-demolished.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:11 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Western Kentucky University building will be demolished after an inspection uncovered significant structural damage.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[House approves task force to rewrite juvenile code]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064581/house-approves-task-force-to-rewrite.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:31 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Kentucky lawmakers in the House on Friday approved a measure to create a task force to rewrite the state's juvenile code.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Man pleads not guilty in traffic death of deputy]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064557/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-traffic.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:53 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A man charged with murder in a traffic crash that killed a Pike County deputy has pleaded not guilty.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[La Grange residents complain of starling invasion]]></title>
    <link>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/11/2064536/la-grange-residents-complain-of.html</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:11 EST</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It's not exactly Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," but La Grange residents say an invasion of tens of thousands of starlings is both noisy and smelly.]]></description>
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