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Kentucky Department of Revenue warns of tax scams and recent schemes

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FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Department of Revenue said in a news release that it wants all Kentuckians to be aware of possible schemes that are designed to steal identities and important personal information. As tax season approaches, the department, along with the Internal Revenue Service, and tax industry representatives, reminds taxpayers to be on the lookout for an array of evolving tax scams related to identity theft and refund fraud.

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Poverty still darkens lives of Kentucky kids, carries stigma

by deborah yetter
The Courier-Journal
Struggling to provide for themselves and their growing family, George and Katrina Ellis found themselves on the brink of homelessness several years ago when they lost their rental home and couldn’t find another they could afford.
“We never in a million years thought it would happen to us,” Katrina Ellis said.

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Lawmakers should support permanent supplemental pay increases for police and firefighters

bowling green daily news
At a time when police agencies are finding it difficult to recruit qualified candidates to become officers and local municipalities are cash-strapped, a piece of proposed legislation that would permanently increase state supplemental incentives for law enforcement officers, firefighters and volunteer fire departments shows real promise in helping retain and recruit officers and firefighters and in providing money to assist volunteer fire departments with equipment purchases.

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Rose remembered as typical ‘Kentucky boy’

by jerry tipton
Lexington Herald-Leader
Robert Gayle Rose — one of 43 former Kentucky players, coaches and contributors to have a retired jersey hanging in Rupp Arena — died on Nov. 12. Ten days earlier was his 84th birthday.
Rose played for UK in the early 1950s. A 6-foot guard, he started and averaged 6.7 points for Kentucky’s unbeaten (25-0) team in the 1953-54 season. That remains the only unbeaten team in UK basketball history.
Rose started and averaged 7.4 points as a senior in 1954-55.

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Extension office offers tips for great turkey

by Judy Hetterman

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Governor responds to election narratives that ‘miss the mark’

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Real ID creates some real issues

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Pile of stones in a Kentucky mobile home park reveals link to legend of ‘Honest Abe’

BY TOM EBLEN
Lexington Herald-Leader
A small, abandoned cemetery in the middle of a mobile home subdivision off Tates Creek Road near the Fayette-Jessamine county line has been found to contain the family graves of the man who gave Abraham Lincoln some of his first jobs.
Denton Offutt was a well-known horse trainer who left Lexington for New Salem, Ill., where he hired the future president to crew a flatboat and later manage his general store and mill.

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