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1 Killed, 1 Injured in Shooting at Western Kentucky Plant

2015-10-01 01:11:34| Food - Topix.net

A Kentucky woman has died of what police say appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and another person was injured in a shooting at a ConAgra Foods plant. Princeton police said in a news release Wednesday that 37-year-old Nellie Renee Nichols of Dawson Springs went to the factory to confront her mother and began firing from a semi-automatic pistol.

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Federal fund will pay $30M per year for Kentucky broadband

2015-09-18 11:23:17| Telecom - Topix.net

A fund created by the Federal Communications Commission will pay AT&T $30 million a year for the next six years to make high-speed Internet available to more than 84,000 rural Kentucky homes and businesses. The Connect America Fund was created in 2011 to expand broadband to rural areas where expansion isn't supported economically.

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No union mines left in Kentucky, where labor wars once raged

2015-09-05 17:54:27| Energy - Topix.net

Kentucky coal miners bled and died to un... . FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 photo, coal miners return on a buggy after working a shift underground at the Perkins Branch Coal Mine in Cumberland, Ky.

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Group Opposed to Kentucky Landfill Sues Regulators

2015-08-18 21:57:00| Waste Age

The Herald-Dispatch Some Boyd County residents opposed to the Big Run Landfill filed suit in Boyd County Circuit Court seeking that the courts, rather than regulatory agencies, decide whether to close the landfill. read more

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