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Hear featured reports on events and issues affecting the Four Rivers Region. Produced by the WKMS News Team.
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Air cannons and pyrotechnics blast away pesky pest-birds
In Kentucky, so-called "pest-birds" include starlings, cowbirds, and grackles. These ...
In Kentucky, so-called "pest-birds" include starlings, cowbirds, and grackles. These birds are commonly known as blackbirds, and winter brings hoards of them to roost in Kentucky. Blackbirds tend to use the same roosts year after
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Maiden Alley Cinema presents Nine, starring Daniel Day Lewis
Nine is the movie adaptation of the 1982 Tony Award-winning ...
Nine is the movie adaptation of the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical that starred Raul Julia and featured Antonio Banderas in its 2003 revival. This time, Daniel Day Lewis plays Italian film director Guido Contini, who's looking for inspiration
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Kentucky secures its notch on America's 'stroke belt'
Kentucky is securely positioned as a member of America's stroke ...
Kentucky is securely positioned as a member of America's stroke belt.' It means the Commonwealth is among ten other states where the mortality rate from strokes is higher than the national average. Smoking and high blood pressure are two
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Ice Storm retrospective: what silenced our cell phones?
The 2009 ice storm caused wide-spread damage that's still evident ...
The 2009 ice storm caused wide-spread damage that's still evident in some places. It deprived our area of light, heat, water, and, for most, cell phone service. In this installment of our series looking back at the ice storm, we'll find out
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Trigg County Gears Up for Liquor Sales
It's been about five months since Trigg County passed an ...
It's been about five months since Trigg County passed an ordinance to end prohibition. Now, many businesses are applying for various licenses to sell alcohol: nine for retail packaged beer, seven for retail packaged liquor, and one restaurant has
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Paducah Native Heads for Haiti
Twenty four year old Paducah native Paul Mazzone is just ...
Twenty four year old Paducah native Paul Mazzone is just one of many people across the world that is traveling to Haiti to help with the disaster relief.
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Hopkins County rallies to fight childhood obesity
Ed Wallace watched his daughters grow into adults and now ...
Ed Wallace watched his daughters grow into adults and now enjoys watching his grandchildren blossom. However, worries that didn't concern him with his own daughters now loom over his grandkids and many children he sees everyday at the Hopkins
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How technology is pushing away penmanship
In an era where second graders have iPhones, and texting ...
In an era where second graders have iPhones, and texting is evolving into a sub-form of language, is technology pushing the pencil out the classroom door? National Handwriting Day is Saturday, Jan. 23. Fittingly it's also John Hancock's
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Beshear Proposes Gaming Budget
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear wants to use revenue from casino-style ...
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear wants to use revenue from casino-style gambling at horse tracks to balance the state's next biennial budget.
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Good news for Kentucky's endangered mussel
About a year and a half ago, we brought you ...
About a year and a half ago, we brought you the story of Kentucky's endangered mussels, and the struggle to save them. Decades of pollution and habitat loss have put a large percentage of our watershed's freshwater mussels on the federal
