By Chad Lampe

Murray, KY – Two Murray State Professors have helped to develop a new communication system to give remote rural areas access to otherwise unheard of communication amenities during a crisis.

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By Gary Scott

Murray, KY – Over 100 evacuees from New Orleans arrived in Murray and are staying at the Woodmen of the World Youthcamp just north of town. Some have left to go stay with family elsewhere. Some have found work here and may end up staying. Others continue to search for missing family members who have been lost since Hurricane Katrina.

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By John Dillon

Murray, KY – The concept goes back literally hundreds of years, and is rooted in British higher education.

So-called "residential colleges" serve to integrate students on a university campus. They form a body of distinct social communities, and are led by faculty, but set up to allow student initiative. Murray State University's eight residential colleges have been operating since the mid-1990's.

By Kate Lochte

Murray, KY – Maker's Mark CEO Bill Samuels, Jr., enjoys telling his family's history in the whiskey business, which pretty much parallels the history of the Commonwealth. He visits his old summer stomping grounds in Paducah Friday, August 19th, to regale guests with tales at a benefit Distiller's Dinner at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center for the Arts.

Click the "Listen" icon above to hear Samuels explain to Kate Lochte how his father succeeded in making a smoother, sweeter whiskey.

By Gary Scott

Murray, KY – A German sunroof maker now calls Murray home for part of its worldwide operations.

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By Bryan Bartlett

Murray, KY – One of the many challenges for workers who lose their jobs when companies move manufacturing overseas is deciding what to do next. For displaced workers in Mayfield and Murray, help was close at hand.

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By Gary Scott

Murray, KY – Finding the right niche can mean success for small, local businesses trying to break into the global market. Two Murray companies started small and now sell around the world.

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By Gary Scott

Murray, KY – Since the fall of 2001, the international student population at universities across America tapered off slightly. Those numbers are now on the upswing at Murray State.

Click the "Listen" icon above to hear Gary Scott's report on Institute of International Studies participants to find out why they left their homes to attend college in western Kentucky.