Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:28 AM EDT
Tucked away in a nondescript office park in northern Kentucky, Noah's followers are rebuilding his ark. The biblical wooden ship built to weather a worldwide flood was 500 feet long and about 80 feet high, according to Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry devoted to a literal telling of the Old Testament.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:49 PM EST
A report released Thursday on last season's ice and wind storms says Kentucky's utilities should not spend billions of dollars burying electrical transmission lines to prevent future mass outages.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:10 PM EDT
A tiny Louisville church's newest minister is a gifted music leader and popular among its three dozen members.
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Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:07 PM EDT
University of Louisville President James Ramsey says he considered several options to deal with the scandal surrounding Rick Pitino before telling the coach to publicly apologize, according to a memo released to The Associated Press Monday.
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Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:30 AM EDT
Rick Pitino's personal failings should be forgiven and he should remain as head basketball coach at the University of Louisville, some Catholics in Kentucky said Sunday.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:45 PM EDT
A five-minute drive from this community's lone gas station leads to a gateway to untapped riches: A bed of coal twice the size of Lake Michigan.
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Thu Jun 4, 2009 2:19 PM EDT
A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.
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Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:21 PM EDT
A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin.
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:39 PM EST
A millionaire's claim that an Alabama gun collector cheated him by marking up prices on world-class antique firearms is back in federal court in Kentucky.
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Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:49 AM EST
Crouching on a narrow ledge 120 feet above the ground, I turn my back to the long drop and halfheartedly extend a boot over the edge of the sandstone cliff.
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Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:55 PM EST
It seems as if the gracious couple has told the story a thousand times — how the crack of an assassin's bullet struck the president just a few feet from where they stood.
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Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
A man charged with killing three children and wounding their mother made an initial court appearance by video Monday in a western Kentucky courtroom.
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Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:57 AM EDT
The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:56 AM EDT
One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror.
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Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:45 PM EDT
When his eldest daughter's burned body was found behind a school, Joe Currin wanted to believe the killer or killers would swiftly be brought to justice.
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Thu Feb 7, 2008 7:05 PM EST
The founder of a popular Kentucky Christian museum that rejects evolution says in a new book that Darwin's theory fuels racism and genocide.
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Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:39 AM EST
A jury rejected all felony charges brought against an Alabama couple accused of selling a slew of famous firearms to a millionaire collector at fraudulent prices.
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Sun Dec 2, 2007 12:53 PM EST
The evidence will look like a prop list from a John Wayne movie when three antique gun enthusiasts go on trial Monday on charges of bilking a millionaire collector.
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Sun May 13, 2007 2:26 PM EDT
The nation's top electronics retailer didn't pick Silicon Valley, India or another high-tech hub to build its hospital for personal computers. It chose the Kentucky countryside, known more for race horses and bourbon distilleries than geeks and microprocessors.
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Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:40 AM EST
Federal agents will spend the rest of the week investigating what caused a train carrying hazardous chemicals to derail and catch fire, forcing nearby residents to evacuate their homes.
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Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:46 AM EST
Colonel Sanders is shedding his white suit jacket for a cook's red apron.
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:21 PM EDT
Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve.
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