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• Rainbow crosswalks claimed as hazard will remain for now

  01-12-2017 18:03
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• Smoking bans having the desired effect

  01-12-2017 13:39
  Strong restrictions on public smoking enacted in the first decade of this century in communities across Kentucky, including Ashland, have been linked in a new University of Kentucky study to a decline in lung cancer rates in those communities. While a decline in cancer rates was predicted by advocates of the smoking bans because of the reduction of contact with second-hand smoke, the new study by anti-smoking advocate Ellen Hahn of the UK College of Nursing is the first to show that lung cancer
  
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• Watch: Making Tortillas For Kentucky's Mexican Community

  01-12-2017 07:14
  Laura Patricia Ramirez came to the United States in 1985 when she was just 16 years old, along with her husband Alberto and a month-old baby. Unable to speak any English, and missing her larger Mexican community and food, Ramirez felt her homesickness couldn't be helped Alberto, who worked in the horse-racing industry and travelled to Chicago often, would bring Mexican spices and foods to their new home in Lexington, Kentucky.
  
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• Open Tryout For UK's Women's Soccer Team

  01-12-2017 03:31
  The Kentucky women's soccer team will be holding an open tryout for full-time students enrolled at the University of Kentucky. The tryout will take place on Tuesday, February 27 at 7 p.m. ET inside the Nutter Fieldhouse.
  
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