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Your Health: Taking concrete steps to resist smoking urges can help efforts to quit overall 27 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
By Martha King Special to KyForward You know the facts. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke cause more than 440,000 prematu...
As Rupp Arena gets ‘reinvented,’ Lexington mayor asks public to share favorite memories 27 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Whether you’ve been there once or hundreds of times, a visit to Rupp Arena can be a memorable experience. As the city of Lexington works to reinvent Rupp, Mayor Jim Gray invites people to use social...
KDE “strongly recommends” schools bar passing out Bibles, other religious materials 27 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Special to KyForward The Kentucky Department of Education has issued carefully worded guidance to the state’s superintendents on a variety of public-school-and-religion matters from allowing Bibles ...
Keven Moore on Insurance: Little League, baseball spectators and assumption of risk 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
I was born and partly raised in Williamsport, Penn., the hometown of the Little League World Series. Being the parent of a son who played and won the 12-year-old 2007 Cal Ripken World Series, I ha...
Senior Avery Williamson OK with being considered face of the first Stoops Era team 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
On a team full of question marks, new UK football head coach Mark Stoops knows he has at least one player he can count on: Senior linebacker Avery Williamson. “He’s a guy that he’s a cut above …
Everyday Heroes: ‘How can you change a life in three weeks?’ Just ask Jane Stephenson 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
By Steve Flairty KyForward columnist This story is taken from Steve Flairty’s 2008 book, Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes. Five years later, Jane Stephenson is still an integral part of New Opportunity Sc...
Hundreds find treasure – $350,000 worth – at Treasure Finders’ booth at Ky. State Fair 27 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
From unclaimed treasure of as much as $14,000 in stock found by a surprised mother of three to a woman who jumped for joy at claiming $14 dollars for an unredeemed gift certificate, those are the kind...
Library is ‘Going to the Dogs’ with archival photographs of famed UK, Lexington canines 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
By Whitney Hale Special to KyForward Man’s best friend is the focus of a University of Kentucky Special Collections’ exhibition “Going to the Dogs,” a show featuring archival photographs. “Going...
Funeral services for R.J. Corman today at site of railroad company he founded 26 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
Funeral services are at 4 p.m. today for Richard “R.J.” Jay Corman, the Nicholasville railroad entrepreneur and philanthropist who died Friday after a long battle with cancer. Services will take place...
Science Guy: Energy conserves itself unless changed by holding bowling ball to your nose 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
It’s something we use at the bowling alley, but have you ever considered using a bowling ball for an experiment that will encourage you to trust science. Bowling Ball Nose-Basher Ingredients • 1...
