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Trump Did 'Nothing Wrong,' His Legal Team Says In First Day Of Impeachment Defense

Updated at 1:32 p.m. ET President Trump "did absolutely nothing wrong," White House counsel Pat Cipollone said Saturday, as lawyers representing the president got their first shot to poke holes in the impeachment case made this week by Democrats. Saturday's proceedings, which lasted a little more than two hours, set up the White House arguments in the impeachment trial . The proceedings resume Monday at 1 p.m. The president's team told senators that the House managers selectively withheld...

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Trump Did 'Nothing Wrong,' His Legal Team Says In First Day Of Impeachment Defense

By • Jan 25, 2020

Updated at 1:32 p.m. ET

President Trump "did absolutely nothing wrong," White House counsel Pat Cipollone said Saturday, as lawyers representing the president got their first shot to poke holes in the impeachment case made this week by Democrats.

Saturday's proceedings, which lasted a little more than two hours, set up the White House arguments in the impeachment trial. The proceedings resume Monday at 1 p.m.

Trump-Themed Spirit Week Display At A West Kentucky High School Attracts Controversy

By • Jan 24, 2020
Dawson Springs Independent Schools

A “spirit week” decoration at a west Kentucky high school is attracting controversy after one class chose President Trump as their decoration theme.

Christian County Commonwealth's Attorney To Be Absent From Courts Following Protests

By • Jan 24, 2020
Kentucky New Era

Christian County Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling will be absent from courtrooms following protests outside the Christian County Justice Center calling for his resignation.

Kentucky Officials Worry Bankrupt Mines May Abandon Cleanup

By • Jan 24, 2020
Sydney Boles / Ohio Valley ReSource

Kentucky officials are concerned that two bankrupt coal companies could abandon their environmental obligations. 

Kentucky Colleges, Universities To Seek Funding Increase

By • Jan 24, 2020
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Lawmakers have been told Kentucky state colleges and universities will ask for their first funding increase since the 2007-08 budget.

Anti-Muslim Protestors Show Up For Muslim Day At The Capitol

By • Jan 24, 2020
Stu Johnson

More than 200 Muslims, many of them children, came to Frankfort earlier this week. 

Democrats Finish Final Day Of Arguments Before Trump Team's Turn

By • Jan 24, 2020

Updated at 9:00 p.m. ET

House Democrats on Friday finished their third and final day of arguments that President Trump, impeached by the House, now should be convicted and removed from office by the Senate.

The president's lawyers will get their turn to lay out the case for acquittal starting this weekend.

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Tennessee Ends 2019 With Record Low Unemployment Rate

By • Jan 24, 2020
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Tennessee officials say unemployment rates continue to sear near record low levels. 

In Ohio Watershed, Higher Water Lines And More Hazardous Cargo

By • Jan 24, 2020
Alexandra Kanik / Ohio Valley Resource

Just before dawn in January 2018, 27 barges were floating like a net along the banks of the Ohio River, downstream of the city of Pittsburgh.

Marshall County Gathers For A 'Night of Hope and Healing' To Focus On Sources Of Strength

By • Jan 23, 2020
Cory Sharber / WKMS

The Marshall County community gathered Thursday evening at their high school for a ‘Night of Hope and Healing’ to mark two years since the deadly shooting at the school.

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Grocers In Rural Coal Country Struggle To Stay In Business

There’s a picture frame on the wall next to the customer service desk in the IGA in Inez, Kentucky. Inside the frame is a scrap of beige meat-counter paper, on which a man named Derle Ousley sketched the layout for an ad announcing the opening of his very first grocery store.

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