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Scholarships/awards: The following Fayette County Students won college-sponsored National Merit scholarships:

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Discounts for veteransThe Kentucky State Parks are offering a 10 percent discount from lodging and camping rates for current and former members of the military.

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  • Some inmates could be tracked by GPS devices

    By Joe Biesk

    Associated Press

    FRANKFORT — Kentucky authorities are considering individual global positioning devices for monitoring inmates and parolees out on home incarceration.

  • Dispelling ghosts of campaigns past
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    While battling the most prolific fund-raiser and one of the toughest campaigners in Kentucky history, Bruce Lunsford's campaign for the U.S. Senate must also put to rest Lunsford's own checkered past with Democrats.

  • Transportation Cabinet no stranger to scandal

    By John Cheves and Jack Brammer

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    FRANKFORT — Nothing is more constant in Kentucky state government than scandal at the Transportation Cabinet.

  • State using $50 million bond to solve student loan crisis
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    By Art Jester

    ajester@herald-leader.com

    Kentucky will pump $50 million into a state agency so it can resume issuing loans to college students as they begin fall classes.

  • "New element' in roads probe
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Transportation Secretary Joe Prather confirmed Thursday that ”a new element“ has developed in an investigation of former Secretary Bill Nighbert and others by the cabinet's inspector general.

  • Nighbert is target of state inquiry
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    By Jack Brammer and Beth Musgrave

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — The state Transportation Cabinet's watchdog agency is investigating former Secretary Bill Nighbert, who is also a target in an FBI investigation of alleged bid rigging.

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  • Williams says Nighbert had no influence
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    A former Transportation Cabinet secretary suspected by the FBI of helping rig road construction bids was also advising Senate President David Williams, a Republican, about transportation issues during this year's legislative session.

  • Beshear officials cooperating in probe
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    By Ryan Alessi

    ralessi@herald-leader.com

    Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday that his administration has been cooperating with federal authorities investigating allegations of road contract bid-rigging and that investigators interviewed him ”in the last month.“

  • Decision on KHSAA rules delayed

    By Valarie Honeycutt Spears

    vhoneycutt@herald-leader.com

    The Kentucky Board of Education decided Wednesday to ask lawmakers to wait another month before taking up the issue of whether the Kentucky High School Athletic Association's rules are in some cases too stringent.

  • Legislator named to education post

    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — House Education Chairman Frank Rasche, D-Paducah, is the new legislative liaison for the state Department of Education.

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  • Report urges replacing Capital Plaza tower
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — The 26-story Capital Plaza Office tower that dominates the skyline of Kentucky's capital city might come down.

  • 3 names submitted for vacated justice seat

    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear has 60 days to select a new Kentucky Supreme Court justice from three names provided by a judicial nominating commission on Tuesday.

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    Suggest a road marker

    The Kentucky ­Historical Society is accepting ­applications for the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker Program. The application deadline is Oct. 1.The fee for a highway marker is $2,075 for a one-sided marker and $2,300 for a two-sided marker. The Kentucky Historical Highway Marker Program, administered by the Kentucky Historical Society in cooperation with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, commemorates historical sites, events and personalities throughout the commonwealth. Download the application at www.history.ky.gov by clicking on the ”Community Historians“ link. Call (502) 564-1792, Ext. 4474.

  • Beshear clears roads for electric car plant
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    By Jack Brammer

    jbrammer@herald-leader.com

    FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear signed an executive order Tuesday allowing low-speed electric vehicles on some state roads in an effort to lure an electric car manufacturing plant to Kentucky.

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