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This same story of retirement is also a factor with the House seats of the Jackson Purchase and Pennyrile areas. Of the region’s six incumbent House of Representative members, four are retiring in 2012

(Murray, KY Mar 17, 2012) - On Saturday night, some 200 Jackson Purchase Republicans came to the campus of Murray State University for dinner. Many came for the speeches and prime rib.

Others came to plot strategy. They plotted on three levels: (1) defeat President Obama in West Kentucky (2) win control of Kentucky House of Representatives, and (3) how to defeat Carroll Hubbard.

(Louisville, March 17, 2012) Was Morgan Smith a cold blooded murderer who shot a former girlfriend, Christy Rose, down in the parking lot of her condominium?

Or was Morgan Smith defending his own life when the shot rang out that ended Christy Rose’s life?

Those were the questions that thirty one mock trial teams from all over Kentucky argued in Louisville last weekend.

MURRAY, Ky. — In late December 2011, North Carolina publishers McFarland and Co., released the second edition of Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, the Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions, by Dr. Kenneth Tucker, professor emeritus of Murray State University’s department of English.

During the early 1930s, Ness gained fame as one of several men instrumental in putting Al Capone behind bars and inspired Chester Gould’s comic strip detective Dick Tracy.

U.S. Intelligence Scenario No. 9 “The Ghenghis Khan Gambit”

(Afghan border, sometime in the near future) - The rocks didn’t move but the darkness did. This part of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was a no man’s zone of war torn rubble, overlaying centuries of weather beaten rubble. To call it an alien moonscape would be kind.

Just before dawn, many dark forms quietly move in harmony toward the outer ring of the new installation. Each of the shadows was determined to drive out the foreign devils behind the new fortress walls...