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Skyrocketing gas prices forcing many locals to take "staycations"

With the summer travel season quickly approaching, a lot of people are changing their plans. With gas just one penny under $4 a gallon in Kentuckiana, some are planning to take, what some Louisville residents call, a "staycation" this summer.

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Rape charges dropped against two Bullitt County men, they still face other charges

The duo made headlines after being accused of assaulting an emergency medical technician who was working in an ambulance.

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Survivors remain linked 20 years after deadliest alcohol-related highway catastrophe in the the nation

On May 14, 1988, a pickup going the wrong way on Interstate 71 in the Ohio River Valley near Carrollton collided with a church-owned school bus bringing teens and children home from an outing at an amusement park. The fuel tank ruptured, engulfing the bus in flames and taking 27 lives.

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