Afternoon Round-Up 7/25/12

Today on NPR: Some pay phones offer free Wi-Fi as part of New York City's experiment to breathe new life into its abandoned public phones.

Around the Commonwealth:

• Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has ordered flags at all state office building to half staff on Friday in honor of last week’s Colorado shooting victims.
• The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Department is looking for suspects after $41,000 in copper and other metal was stolen.
• Mitch McConnell challenged Democrats to vote on a bill to end the Bush era tax cuts for wealthier Americans.
• Governor Steve Beshear is on his way to Germany and France to help economic development in Kentucky.
• A former financial planner for the Kentucky Pension Systems says an international banking scandal is leading to millions of dollars in losses for Kentucky agencies.
  

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