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Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan and the shooter is down, police said Sunday.
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Planned Parenthood’s leadership has “no plans” to close its two Kentucky locations following a judge’s ruling that the government can block Medicaid funding to the organization for a year.
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A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the fiber arts to teach K-12 students about geometry and other mathematical principles.
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Murray State University President Ron Patterson spoke at Wrather Hall on campus Thursday, delivering a “State of the University” address that highlighted the school’s recent accomplishments and gave an update on his first semester at the western Kentucky institution.
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Kentucky lawmakers heard testimony Thursday over a proposal to ban machine gun conversion devices (MCDs), also referred to as “Glock switches” or “auto sears,” that convert semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic ones.
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