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GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information about the shooting of a bald eagle in western Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. on Tuesday charged David Cary Ford, 53, of Louisville, Kentucky, with criminal counts of wire fraud and money laundering, stemming from Ford’s activities while he was a practicing attorney and the executor of seven estates in Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The former officer manager of a Louisville, Kentucky, company was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court, by District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to 18 months in prison, without the opportunity of parole, for embezzling $800,000.

FRANKFORT—Tuition for thousands of Kentucky community college students could be covered under a proposed scholarship bill that passed a House committee on Tuesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 8, 2016) – Energy and Environment Secretary Charles G. Snavely announced today that a Notice of Violation containing four violations was issued against Green Valley Landfill General Partnership in Ashland, Ky. after an investigation found that the landfill had accepted 26 loads (368.5 tons) of low-level radioactive waste, commonly known as TENORM (Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material).

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 8, 2016) – Energy and Environment Secretary Charles Snavely announced on Tuesday a Notice of Violation containing four violations against Advanced Disposal Services Blue Ridge Landfill, Inc. in Estill County, KY after an investigation found the landfill accepted low-level radioactive waste commonly known as TENORM (Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material).

Andy Beshear Op-ed: Let’s Work Together to End Child Sexual Abuse in Kentucky: Child Sexual Abuse Training scheduled across the state: March-November

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is opposing a prosecution push to make him pay $28 million in restitution to a coal company.