| June 22, 2007 | -
Six Flags closed eight thrill rides across the country after a teenage girl in Kentucky had her feet severed on the Superman Tower of Power.
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Six Flags closed eight thrill rides across the country after a teenage girl in Kentucky had her feet severed on the Superman Tower of Power.
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AP via Wave3 Louisville, KY
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| January 1, 2007 | - It was reported that an 80-year-old great-grandmother in Kentucky had killed her first deer on a hunt in November. “Ka-powie!” said the woman. “Don't stop doing things 'til you're in the grave!”
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| August 28, 2006 | - Forty-nine people died when a commercial jet attempted to take off from the wrong runway at an airport in Lexington, Kentucky.
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AP via Boston Herald
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| January 29, 2006 | -
Marine James Blake Miller, whose face became emblematic of the Iraq war after he was photographed smoking a cigarette during the November 2004 attack on Fallujah, was at home in Kentucky, where he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and had cut back to a pack and a half a day.
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SFGate.com
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| December 21, 2005 | - An appeals panel in Kentucky ruled that a courthouse there could continue to display the ten commandments because they are of "historical" significance. "The First Amendment," wrote Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich, "does not demand a wall of separation between church and state."
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AP
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| June 27, 2005 | - A group of U.S. senators visited Guantánamo Bay and said that prisoners there were being treated humanely. Prisoners “even have air-conditioning,” said Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, “and semi-private showers.”
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The New York Times
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| June 26, 2005 | - A monkey in a diaper attacked a fast-food worker in Kentucky.
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6ActionNews.com
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| October 11, 2004 | - A senator from Kentucky apologized for saying that his Democratic opponent looks like one of Saddam Hussein's sons.
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Associated Press
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| August 31, 2004 | - A scientist in Kentucky claimed to have created viable embryos using cells from dead people and cow eggs; Panayiotis Zavos claimed that his work, which used tissue from an 11-year-old girl who died in a car crash, a dead 18-month-old baby, and a 33-year-old dead man, proved that clones could be made of people after they have died.
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New Scientist
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| May 26, 2004 | - Doctors in Kentucky, who have been practicing face transplants on dead bodies, asked for permission to give a living person a new face.
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BBC
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| October 17, 2003 | - In Kentucky, a ten-year-old boy found a snake with heads at both ends.
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Associated Press
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| September 3, 2002 | -
Kentucky banned prison inmates from holding formal Satanic worship services, which previously had been listed on the official prison religious-services calendar.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
J. Kendrick Williams, the Roman Catholic bishop of Lexington, Kentucky, removed himself from pastoral duties until the church completes an investigation of charges that he molested an altar boy.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
President Bush rubbed a soldier's bald head in Kentucky.
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| July 10, 2001 | - A patient in Kentucky was the first human being to receive a completely self-contained artificial heart; the device was first tested on calves weighing about the same as a person, where it functioned normally until the calves outgrew it.
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| May 22, 2001 | - Thoroughbred foals in Kentucky were dying at an alarming rate for unknown reasons.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Kentucky's governor proposed mandatory curbside garbage collection as a solution to the hillbilly propensity to throw garbage off the back porch.
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| October 17, 2000 | - The director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press announced that media pundits are less influential than researchers had thought: “There is increasing evidence the American public has an ability to ignore what the pundits say.” Two hundred million gallons of coal sludge escaped from the Martin County Coal Corporation's coal preparation plant in Inez, Kentucky; the blob of sludge was spreading through the area at a rate of ten miles a day, killing
fish and wildlife as it oozed through woods and streams.
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