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Clinton rolls in W.Va.
Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination....more>>

• Chelsea Clinton makes Ashland campaign stop
• Tree hits moving cars

Progress: 50 Under 40

Religion: Martha Rucker
Martha Rucker firmly believes she is in the place she’s supposed to be....more>>

• Organizations: Carol Polley
• Religion: Jennifer Johnson

Jails: A Crisis In The Counties

Budget committee addresses prisons, passes budget and cigarette tax
Some of them were “squirming in their seats,” but 20 members of the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee chose higher cigarette taxes and sales taxes on some services over “devastating” cuts to education and health and human services Tuesday....more>>

• Senate Judiciary wants lawmakers to review penal code
• Graham will file bill to help counties with jails

Barry Bonds charged with 15 counts in new indictment
Major League Baseball home run record holder Barry Bonds was charged with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice in a new indictment that was a result of the BALCO doping investigation....more>>

• A SECOND-CHANCE SERVE FOR AHMADI
• Defense backs DeHoff; Devils beat Rose Hill

1996 Boys State Championship
The Independent's Mark Maynard presents The Independent Minute: a sports history lesson, one minute at a time.
Produced by Don Moore and the Ohio University Southern production department....more>>

• Boyd County's Frank Lee
• Greenup's Mike Scott

Cathie Shaffer: Caffeine fix still required: 05/13/08
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• Lee Ward: River critters give her the jitters: 5/12/08
• AARON SNYDER: Who’s got a title shot?

High gasoline prices spawning symbolic acts
Americans facing rising gasoline and diesel prices are cycling about, saddling up, singing out and, sometimes, resorting to violent symbolism....more>>

• Chelsea Clinton makes Ashland campaign stop
• Sounds of the dulcimer

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Friends abroad
Furthering his education might have been Jackie Phan’s primary goal for his visit to the United States, but he’s also had a lot of fun....more>>

• Short story contest rules listed
• Golf scramble to aid Pathways' prevention program

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Still a choice — 05/13/08
Politically, Hillary Clinton and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are far apart. But Senator Clinton — the wife of a former governor of Arkansas — is now playing the same role in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination as Huckabee did earlier this year in the race for the GOP nomination for president. And just as the final weeks of Huckabee’s campaign gave Republicans an opportunity to cast a vote in opposition to John McCain, the party’s certain nominee for president, Hillary Clinton is giving Democrats unhappy with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s near-certain nomination a chance to cast a protest vote....more>>

• Rushing to die — 05/12/08
• Smaller increase — 05/12/08

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Homecoming concert for Melvin Goins
Melvin Goins’ homecoming concert, set for 7 p.m. Jan. 12 at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, is more than a show....more>>

• Coming Up
• John Cannon: A morning with the Bard of Avon: 11/28/07

UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone
Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000....more>>

• Obama ascendant after trading primaries with Clinton
• 5.4 earthquake rocks Illinois; felt in Ohio and Kentucky

All in the family
On a sunny April morning Steve Jackson stands outside of his downtown tire company laughing and joking with the continuous stream of customers that pulls off 16th Street into his lot.
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• Into the economic abyss: How deep will it go?
• Powder instead of paint

Getting down to business: The intermediate grades
The intermediate grades — fourth and fifth — are separated by a hallway from the primary ones at Greysbranch Elementary School....more>>

• New super for Ashland
• Gilmore will step down as mayor in July

MyPhoto: The Bridges
With the recent media attention on the new Veterans' Riverfront Park along the Ashland riverfront, Kelesy Potter took the opportunity to give the twin bridges at the soon-to-be park a unique perspective. Kelsey, 14, is from Worthington....more>>

• MyPhoto: Sledding the farm
• MyPhoto Trey

'Idol' down to final four
Diamond wasn't Brooke White's best friend on "American Idol" Wednesday night....more>>

• Festival celebrating the arts set for Saturday
• Swift, Pickler win for videos

Science/Environment

Shell Oil president wants more access to energy resources
The United States' reliance on foreign oil is increasing because of limits on where companies can search for resources, the president of Shell Oil Co. says....more>>

• DOE awards $61M to coalition studying greenhouse gas storage
• Global warming pollution threatens Australia's koala population

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