November 2009

Light Up Louisville Changes Expected To Draw Larger Crowds

by Gabe Bullard November 26, 2009

The 29th annual Light up Louisville event is Friday.

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Record Numbers Sign Up for Food Stamps

by kespeland November 25, 2009

Kentucky is issuing record numbers of food stamps to households.

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U of L Grad Preparing For Rhodes Scholarship

by Rick Howlett November 25, 2009

University of Louisville graduate Monica Marks is preparing for a move to England next year, where she’ll enroll at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. The 23 year old Marks learned last week that she’s among 32 people from the United States chosen for the prestigious scholarship this year, and the only one from Kentucky. [...]

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LMPD, Church Group Spread Holiday Cheer

by Rick Howlett November 25, 2009

From WFPL’s Haley Hart The Louisville Metro Police Department teamed up with Greater St. Mark Baptist Church to prepare and deliver Thanksgiving dinners Wednesday to hundreds of homebound residents. Yvette Gentry, an acting Lieutenant Colonel with the LMPD and a member of the church, helped start the tradition eleven years ago. “When I was a [...]

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Health Officials Urge Diligence Against H1N1 During Holiday

by Rick Howlett November 25, 2009

From Kentucky Public Radio’s Tony McVeigh Kentucky has seen a slight decline in H1N1 flu cases in recent weeks, and state health officials are hoping the Thanksgiving holiday weekend will help continue the trend.  Kentucky Health Commissioner Dr. William Hacker says flu activity usually drops off when school is out.  “In a public forum, like shopping [...]

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Officials Predict Slightly Higher Holiday Auto Travel

by Rick Howlett November 25, 2009

Triple-A officials say automobile travel over the Thanksgiving weekend is expected to be up slightly over last year. Louisville spokesperson Roger Boyd says local gas prices have fluctuated in advance of the holiday driving period, but have remained steady throughout the rest of Kentucky. “I wish i could but I can’t promise that stations might [...]

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Court Upholds Early Release Program for Prisoners

by scrosby November 25, 2009

From Kentucky Public Radio’s Tony McVeigh The Kentucky Supreme Court says an early release program for state prison inmates may continue. More than seven thousand Kentucky prison inmates and parolees are now free under the early release program, which is based on parole credits. And the Justice Cabinet says the program has saved the commonwealth [...]

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Wayside Using Hotel Ballroom For Holiday Meal

by Gabe Bullard November 25, 2009

Wayside Christian Mission’s annual Thanksgiving meals will be served out of the mission’s Hotel Louisville site.

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Kentucky Supreme Court Ruling Could Delay Executions

by scrosby November 25, 2009

From Kentucky Public Radio’s Tony McVeigh A ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court regarding lethal injection possibly could delay the execution of some death row inmates. Death row inmates Ralph Baze, Thomas Bowling and Brian Keith Moore say the state should not be able to carry out executions by lethal injection until the protocol is [...]

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KAF 11/12/09 – Dr. Harold Varmus

by Brad Yost November 25, 2009

In the first Kentucky Author Forum of the 2009-10 season, Dr. Harold Varmus was interviewed by Governor Howard Dean in the Bomhard Theater on Nov. 12, 2009.  Dr. Varmus holds a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, and is the former director of the National Institutes of Health, current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and author [...]

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