Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Unfilled

"There's a tremendous shortage of skilled workers," said Craig Giffi, a vice chairman of the consulting firm Deloitte. A recent survey it did found that 83% of manufacturers reported a moderate or severe shortage of skilled production workers to hire.

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Settlement Leads Kenton County Judge To Issue Humorous Order

Quote: happier than a tick on a fat dog otherwise busier than a one-legged cat in a sand box

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Limits on what drivers can do on off weekends?

Or: Should your employer be allowed to limit your freedoms? What do you think? David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM Says:

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Woman Lunges At Wayne County Judge

Apparently the 'ex' husband was right to get a domestic violence order.

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Florida district buckles – drops 'God bless' ban

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The Cars.com American-Made Index

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Alarming Jump In People Needing Food Assistance

Below are excerpts from the article though I encourage you to read the full story for context.  

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Man arrested after asking police for help with burglary

Lexington police have arrested 20 year old Thomas Everett Finnell, after they say he asked some under-cover officers for help breaking in to a house.

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Man Breaks In To Undercover Police Car - With Officers Inside | LEX18.com | Lexington, Kentucky

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Garrard County Man Survives 14,500 Volt Shock

A Garrard County man survived a shock of 14,500 volts after he hit a power line with a transfer auger Wednesday, and even the doctors who treated him are stunned.

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2 Americans Killed at Tijuana Border Crossing

Two Americans killed sitting in their truck waiting to cross the border back into the US.

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God hates Catholics

Westboro Baptist Church will be in Kentucky Sunday (3-6-11). The religious extremists say they will protest a parish in Lousiville and three churches in Owensboro.

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Mom forces bad student son to wear sign announcing 1.22 GPA

Fed up MOM and DAD make son wear a sign saying he needs an education.

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NASA - Can WISE Find the Hypothetical 'Tyche'?

WISE is an instrument that will be paying for itself for decades to come.

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Modern Irrational Fears

"Sometimes I long for the days when I didn't have to worry about how to securely dispose of every single piece of information. Back then I didn't have the sorts of crazy irrational fears that I've developed now."

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South Korea's Mr. Toilet House Is Now an Official Toilet Museum

Are you sitting down? OK, good. Now, where are you sitting down? Maybe you should mosey on over to the throne room and perch that laptop on your knees. Mr. Toilet House, you see, is now an official Toilet Museum.

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South Korea dispatches destroyer to rescue tanker hijacked by Somali pirates - CSMonitor.com

"While it is easy to conceive that one needs simply to increase risks and decrease rewards at sea, the reality is not so simple. Life expectancy for a Somali male is only forty-eight years, unemployment is chronically high, and gross domestic product per capita is $600 per year.

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Snowy Conditions Proving Hazardous For Nation's Idiots

Onion News Network On IFC (1:10) If you know an idiot, please make sure they're safe and not standing naked in a snow embankment on a dare. Onion News Network is coming to IFC on January 21 at 10pm.

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The Hindu : News / International : China for the first time reveals aircraft carrier plan

The report said having an aircraft carrier was not only required to close China's yawning gap with American naval might, but also to "heighten patriotic sentiment" at home.

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So Why Did That V-22 Crash? - Swampland - TIME.com

That's because, as the Air Force noted in its statement releasing the report, its probe was hampered because the V-22's black box – which records lots of flight data and is invaluable in figuring out what went wrong -- was "destroyed and therefore not available for analysis." …

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Why the Left Really Hates Tax Cuts for the Rich: Caroline Baum

Why the Left Really Hates Tax Cuts "Odious" is how senior adviser David Axelrod described President Barack Obama's acquiescence to extending tax cuts for the rich as part of a deal struck with congressional Republicans.

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Media Matters Lies About Media Coverage of Sarah Palin North Korea Slip

"Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America has published yet another attack on Republican Sarah Palin. This one a dishonest portrayal of media coverage of her recent slip of the tongue regarding the crisis on the Korean peninsula."

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Corsair soars from the bottom of Lake Michigan

The Corsair, with its distinct gull-wing shape, is a relatively rare artifact for Lake Michigan because most of the aircraft used for training out of Glenview were Dauntless dive-bombers, which have also been salvaged at Larsen Marine.

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Time to defend the constitution, again

Bottom line, the Constitution is under attack. It is threatened with a proverbial shredding that would for hereafter render it meaningless. The clarion call has been sounded for all good Americans to defend our guiding, founding document and the principles for which it stands.

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Judge: Free speech protects Amazon buyers' data

Company filed suit over issue; North Carolina wanted personal info for sales tax collection

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