Afternoon Round-Up 7/23/12

Today on NPR: Paterno's Statue Comes Down

State Legislation:

• Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear recently signed an executive order to create an insurance exchange for Kentucky.
• Illinois legislation will raise fines for people that misuse disabled parking tags.

Four Rivers Region:

• A Graves County High School graduate competes this week for the title of America’s Homecoming Queen in Anaheim, California.
• Montgomery County, Tennessee officials say they are in need of additional citizens to work at polling places.
• The drought in western Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee will continue through the end of the year.
• A federal appeals court has set an October 10th hearing date to take up the case of the man convicted in the 1997 Heath High School shooting in Paducah.