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• Man in custody killed trying to escape during officers' search for ...

  

  A man shot and killed during a confrontation with authorities Thursday night in Harlan County was previously accused of concealing explosives in trail cameras and putting them in the woods. Mark Sawaf, 39, of Harlan had been indicted by a federal grand jury in July and was scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 13, according to court documents. He was ordered to remain in custody until trial and was indicted on eight charges, including owning and making unregistered destructive devices.Lexington Fi..

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• Lexington man arrested in connection to robbery

  

  LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Lexington Police have arrested Quantaveon Leavell in connection to an armed robbery that happened on July 24th. Police say Leavell and two juvenile suspects robbed the Shell on South Broadway around 2 a.m. and got away with around $700. Police say the suspects were seen leaving the gas station in a car. Officers tell us they tried to pull a car over that matched that description but it took off. They followed the car to Mason Headley Road, where the suspects got out and ..

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• Affrilachian Poets reject Governor's Award in the Arts, citing Bevin's ...

  

  The Affrilachian Poets, a diverse Lexington-based collective of writers directly or indirectly connected to Appalachia, has rejected its 2016 Governor’s Award in the Arts, citing Gov. Matt Bevin’s positions on education, the humanities and other issues.“It is the opinion of the group that the governor’s comments, positions and actions regarding education in general, the Humanities specifically, universal healthcare, criminal justice reform, and the LGBTQ community have been reprehensible and go..

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• Lexington Company Sends Computer To Space

  Lexington Company Sends Computer To Space Posted: Friday, August 12, 2016 9:13 PM EDT Updated: Friday, August 12, 2016 9:13 PM EDT LEXINGTON, Ky (LEX 18) A group of UK Engineering students started a company in downtown Lexington with the goal of building experiments for customers and putting them on to the international space station.Earlier this month, a group of experiments housed in Tango Lab One made it to the international space station."We've been working on this lab for over t..

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