O'Connor to Oversee Kentucky Land Dispute
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By BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press writer  A former U.S. Supreme Court justice will oversee the mediation between former Western Kentucky landowners and the U.S. government in what may be the last chance to settle a long-running dispute.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 24--MURRAY, Ky. -- A Murray Middle School teacher was suspended with pay Friday after she was accused of inadvertently trying to buy marijuana from a Kentucky State Police trooper.
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By Andy Mead, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 21--Lexington's Urban County Council, which said in 1999 that it wanted the city's water to come from the Kentucky River, now wants to hear what the Louisville Water Co. has to say about pumping in some Ohio River water.
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Azeri, who was Horse of the Year in 2002 and one of top females in thoroughbred racing history, was retired from competition and will be sent to Kentucky to be bred.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 7--Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to announce on Tuesday that it will hear a Kentucky case that could change how states tax bonds in the $2.3 trillion municipal market, an industry panel said on Friday.
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By Brandy Emily, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Feb. 21--BROWNSTOWN -- Jackson County Board of Commissioners signed a letter to give a property owner 10 days to accept the county's initial offer to buy his land for a new Vallonia Bridge.
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By Phil Fairbanks, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 18--The judge overseeing the seven-year saga known as Hickory Woods is frustrated by delays in the case and now wants a "global settlement" of all the issues surrounding the contaminated neighborhood.
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An eastern Kentucky town struggling to curb its growing drug and alcohol problem must continue the fight without its police chief, who was fatally shot while arresting a man suspected of driving under the influence.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. -- One of the biggest capital punishment cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in a generation was put together largely by a young, fresh-out-of-law-school member of Kentucky's overworked and underpaid corps of public defenders.
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By Kelly Hassett, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 17--A plan for the heavily disputed Buckeye Lake dam project addresses some of the residents' complaints, but homeowners say they're still concerned.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 26--Controversy continued Monday at the second land-use hearing in as many weeks on a proposed development near Henderson Inlet.
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By JULIAN WALKER  The State Water Control Board has another lawsuit on its hands related to a proposed 165-acre mixed-use development in Chesterfield County.
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After fighting the federal government for more than 18 years, Keith Carabell is resigned to more uncertainty after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered another look at his plan to build condominiums in a wetland area.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 7-- -- West Kentucky Community & Technical College President Barbara Veazey is seeking private donations to add a $2 million engineering-research wing for the school's planned Emerging Technology Center.
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By SCOTT VAN VOORHIS  Gov. Deval Patrick signaled yesterday he will come to the rescue of Cambridge's giant NorthPoint project and several other developments endangered by a recent state court ruling.
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By Roger Harris, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Mar. 2--Downtown developers Leigh Burch and David Dewhirst said Thursday  they would be interested in responding to Knox County's requests for proposals  for the former News Sentinel site at the corner of State Street and Church  Avenue.