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In the next installment of Sounds Good's Cyber Bytes series, Tracy Ross and Dr. Michael Ramage, director of Murray State's Cyber Education and Research Center, discuss the local AI center debate. -
Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of the rescue of five western Kentucky men who were trapped underground after a Livingston County zinc and fluorspar mine caved in, burying them alive without food for more than six days. -
An exhibit closing this week in Murray collects artwork and poetry made by people going through addiction recovery programs in western Kentucky. -
The Mercer County Fiscal Court passed a one-year moratorium on data center project applications, while Burgin residents blasted an annexation proposal that would still allow one. -
A federal ban on intoxicating hemp products will go into effect in November, but an additional month’s reprieve is working its way through Congress. Kentucky’s hemp industry hopes it means new energy to protect the growing sector. -
Murray State University’s Board of Regents met for a special called meeting Tuesday morning to appoint a new treasurer after school leaders say Vice President for Finance and Administrative Services Laura Foltz was put on leave last week.
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The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
