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A Jefferson County judge said Matt Bevin must serve out the rest of his 60-day jail sentence following his Thursday arrest on an outstanding contempt of court order.
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The divide over license plate readers in Tennessee has grown more intense, with police agencies moving forward with their support for the technology despite a sweeping public backlash.
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Nearly 50 people packed into a McCracken County courtroom Wednesday evening to tell the state’s Public Service Commission to reject a proposal from a private water and sewer utility that would see their residential customers’ monthly rates climb to over $100 per month.
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The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office arrested former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Thursday at a film set in Paris, Kentucky.
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A federal judge in southern Illinois issued an order Monday halting a logging project commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service in Shawnee National Forest for violating federal law.
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A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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Flight data suggest an Amazon cargo plane tried to abort an unsteady landing at Miami International Airport before smashing into a van and killing five people inside, according to information investigators released Tuesday.
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A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of a task force to fight crime, has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in an alleged dispute over regulation haircuts.