Paducah

River closure reroutes 'Queen'

Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

The Coast Guard closure of the Ohio River near Paducah, Ky. has prompted a last-minute change of plans for more than 350 passengers of the Delta Queen steamboat.

Barkley School Of Law

Chuck Newton (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008

I have to think what a mess. In 2004 Dean Paul Hendrick, the founding dean of Florida Coastal School of Law, really the first of the really successful for-profit law schools founded American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Kentucky of all places. The law school was suppose to be different because it was to require law students to work in one of its law clinics and take practice skills courses before...

Reader’s Almanac: 6/23

Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008

B orn today: Typewriter patented, 1868; Irvin S. Cobb, humorist, journalist, Paducah, Ky., 1876; Anna Akhmatova (ps. Anna Gorenko), poet, near Odessa, Russia, 1889; Jean Anouilh, playwright, Bordeaux, France, 1910; Theodore Taylor, novelist, Statesville, N.C., 1921; Richard Bach, author, aviator, Oak Park, Ill., 1936; David Leavitt, novelist, short-story writer, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1961; Miss Piggy, self-help...

Centier Bank Renews Seven-Year Contract with CSI

China 3G Telecom Market Report (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

PADUCAH, Ky., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centier Bank of Merrillville, Indiana, with over .7 billion in assets, recently signed a seven-year contract renewing its strategic partnership with Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) (Pink Sheets: CSVI). Centier's Senior Partner of Bank Operations...

Verizon Wireless Expands Wireless Broadband Network Across More of Western Kentucky

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

PADUCAH, Ky., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to include all of its western Kentucky coverage area. The expansion encompasses ...

Race forms nation of strangers

Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

W hen my father-in-law was a boy in 1930s Paducah, Ky., he and his friends used to go to the park, steal a swig from the "Whites Only" water fountain and take off running.

Unexpected departure: JSU, favored to win tournament, falls short with loss

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. -- The Gamecocks did play three games all right, but two of them came in the losers' bracket and Saturday they were given their earliest tournament exit ever in a 6-4 loss to Southeast Missouri.

OVC notebook

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. — The odds of seeing his team go up on the screen don't seem too good, but Jacksonville State coach Jim Case says he still plans to watch the NCAA Tournament selection show on Monday.

E. Illinois sends top-seeded Jax State to losers' bracket

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. — Eastern Illinois, the club with the most success against JSU since the Gamecocks joined the league, erupted for seven runs in the first two innings and proceeded to beat them 10-6 on the third day of the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament at Brooks Stadium.

Another thriller: Piazza's two-out double gives Gamecocks win in ninth

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. — The OVC regular-season champions rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Southeast Missouri 7-6 on Brian Piazza's two-out, two-run double.

OVC tournament notebook

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. — Jacksonville State athletic director Jim Fuller said Thursday he has not talked with any other schools seeking permission to speak with Gamecocks baseball coach Jim Case about coaching vacancies at their institutions.

What a relief it is: JSU's bullpen features rare pair of aces

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008

PADUCAH, Ky. — Jacksonville State brings a bullpen into this week's Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament many teams around the country can only envy.

The New York Times Discovers Kentucky

Governing.com: 13th Floor (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

posted by Zach Patton The New York Times special "T Magazine" issue on summer travel came out this Sunday, and it includes a feature on the Artists Relocation Program in Paducah, Kentucky. It's a nice little write-up about the program,...

How artists saved Paducah, Kentucky

THE GURGLING COD (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008

Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child....

Dippin' Dots Celebrates 20 Years

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

PADUCAH, Ky., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The brand that revolutionized ice cream celebrates its 20th Birthday in May by offering its customers free ice cream.

• Dippin' Dots Celebrates 20 Years - PR News Wire