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As northeastern Kentucky has entered its second ice age, it appears jails aren’t a place a lot of folks are seeking warmth.

Subsidy changes I READ with interest your very informative article about a survey of the concerns of farmers and landowners regarding the shift from the EU’s Basic Payment subsidy to our government’s proposal to replace it with the ELM Scheme (D&S Times, Dec 11). Although I sympathise with their anxiety about losing the EU subsidy, there must surely be a realisation that in our market economy they must become more efficient to survive. To rely on aid for their agricultural industry ma...

Inmate families protest as COVID-19 spreads in state prisons By: Keaton Ross Oklahoma Watch December 15, 2020 Diedre Adams holds a sign for her son during a protest outside the Department of Corrections’ Oklahoma City headquarters on Dec. 11. (Photo by Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch) An upset prison guard walked into Stephanie Avery’s housing unit. Avery, a former Mabel Bassett Correctional Center inmate, says the officer pulled her mask below the chin, approached a group of women ...

By Keaton Ross | Oklahoma Watch Dec 15, 2020 Dec 15, 2020 Diedre Adams holds a sign for her son during a protest outside the Department of Corrections Oklahoma City headquarters on Dec. 11, 2020. Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch An upset prison guard walked into Stephanie Avery’s housing unit. Avery, a former Mabel Bassett Correctional Center inmate, says the officer pulled her mask below the chin, approached a group of women and shouted “I don�...

>> thank you, sandhya. we are in the home stretch of the holiday shopping season. if you still have things to buy on your gift list, you are not alone. a staggering 24 million americans will not finish their christmas shopping until tomorrow. it is all great for business, but the stores are also dealing with a huge problem this time of year. thats the five finger discount. john is live at union square. john, shoplifting is really an epidemic. >> it is the high cost of doing business....