BRETT BARROUQUERE

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Bengals cheerleader gets day in court over posting

A woman who worked as a Kentucky high school teacher and moonlights as a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader will get to press her lawsuit against a website and its owner over lewd online comments about her that made her life at school so uncomfortable she quit her teaching job.

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Court weighs trademark on Maker's Mark wax seal

The red wax seal atop a Maker's Mark bottle makes the bourbon stand out on store shelves. Whether the bourbon company can keep that distinction is up to a panel of three federal judges.

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Sisters settle suit over Social Security cards

Two sisters in rural Kentucky who lived for more than 20 years without Social Security numbers will get the government recognition after settling a lawsuit.

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Croatian woman in Ky. fights order back to Europe

A federal judge in Kentucky is weighing whether to order a Croatian woman back to Europe to face charges of murder and torture stemming from the unraveling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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Ice cream maker Dippin' Dots files for bankruptcy

Once the self-proclaimed "Ice Cream of the Future," Dippin' Dots is seeking federal bankruptcy protection, a move the company said is aimed at staving off foreclosure on more than $11 million in loans.

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Tobacco dealer pleads not guilty to tax conspiracy

A tobacco distributor closely watched by federal agents for a decade has pleaded not guilty to charges in Kentucky of using phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars' worth of cigarettes that he sold in several states.

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Cigarette dealer probe spans several years, states

A tobacco distributor closely watched by federal agents for a decade has been charged in Kentucky with using phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars' worth of cigarettes that he sold in several states.

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Judge rules Iraqi can be tried in civilian court

A federal judge has ruled that an Iraqi national charged in Kentucky with terrorism-related crimes can be tried in civilian court.

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Cattle brokers execs charged with check-fraud

Four people associated with one of the nation's largest cattle brokerages have been charged with what state prosecutors describe as a check-kiting scheme that cost 172 cattle producers in Kentucky more than $840,000.

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Ban recommended on trucker cell use and texting

Lynn Murphy doesn't like using his cellphone while hauling a load in his truck, but sometimes a call for directions or instructions is a necessary evil.

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Ban recommended on trucker cell use and texting

Truckers and other commercial drivers should be banned from talking on the phone and texting when they are behind the wheel, a federal safety agency recommended Tuesday.

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Ky. jury seated in penis amputation lawsuit

Opening arguments will be heard Monday in the civil trial of a Kentucky man who is suing a surgeon who amputated his penis four years ago.

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After 75 years, last public hanging haunts city

Bob Howe points to an overgrown, muddy patch of land in a cemetery in Owensboro, gesturing to where the grave of the last man publicly executed in the United States may be.

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Ky. sisters sue to get Social Security numbers

According to the federal government, two sisters in rural Kentucky do not exist.

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Dismissal upheld in Ashland suit vs. Oppenheimer

A Kentucky-based chemical company cannot prove that its investment broker knew in advance that a securities market would collapse in early 2008, leaving the company with $194 million in investments that couldn't easily be sold, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

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Federal appeals court weighs tobacco law challenge

The free-speech rights of tobacco companies are improperly restricted by a federal law giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to impose graphic warnings about the dangers of smoking and regulate how tobacco companies market and advertise their products, an attorney for the tobacco companies argued Wednesday.

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Appeals court weighs tobacco law challenge

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing questions about how far the Food and Drug Administration may go in placing graphic warnings on cigarette labels and regulating how tobacco companies advertise and market their products.

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Ex-Ky. lawmaker pleads guilty to murder

A former Kentucky state representative has pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting of his ex-fiance and has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Ky gov 'fine' with moving Iraqi terror suspects

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says he supports having two Iraqis face terrorism-related charges at Guantanamo Bay rather than in his state's courts.

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Ex-Ky sheriff admits to kickbacks; faces prison

A former eastern Kentucky sheriff on Thursday pleaded guilty to using his office to take kickbacks, distribute drugs and pay for personal expenses.

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Shooter in 1997 school attack testifies at hearing

A man serving a life prison sentence for killing three classmates in a Kentucky high school shooting that shocked the nation in 1997 testified Wednesday that he was commanded to attack by delusions in the form of voices he called "the danes."

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Georgia doctor denies selling Ky. execution drug

A Georgia physician is denying that his company sold Kentucky a supply of a key drug used in lethal injections.

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Companies won't sell Ky. lethal injection drug

Amid a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, documents obtained under a freedom of information request show two pharmaceutical companies declined to sell Kentucky a supply of the sedative.

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Ex-soldier talks about slaying of Iraqi family

An Iraq War veteran serving five life terms for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her parents and sister says he didn't think of Iraqi civilians as humans after being exposed to extreme war zone violence.

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Ky. 'King of Pot' on lam 2 years after giant raid

With authorities closing in to seize 2,400 marijuana plants on John Robert Boone's farm two years ago, the legendary Kentucky outlaw vanished like a puff of smoke. The prolific grower has been dodging the law ever since, his folk-hero status growing with every sale of a "Run, Johnny, Run" T-shirt and click on his Facebook fan page.

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