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Southern Belle Deli and Catering Co. has moved into a building at Fifth and Main streets.
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Recommendations include allowing employees to work from home when possible, discontinuing all events and gatherings, and avoiding in-person service at restaurants or bars, among other requests.
The poll found that 45% said President Trump's comments about masks and social distancing had made them less favorable toward him, while 24% said they had improved their favor for him.
Three local voters who cast absentee ballots explain why they want early voting options to continue in future elections.
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Twelve contestants came out for the beards contest. The audience also participated in a Hopkinsville trivia contest.
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The state also counted a record number of covid-19 hospitalizations, 841, with 231 of those patients in intensive case and 106 of them on ventilators.
In this general election, 5,140 Christian County voters requested an absentee ballot. As of Wednesday, more than 3,000 had been returned to the county clerk's office.
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With just a little more than a week before Election Day and with a challenge to the health care law coming before the high court, health care is on both the ballot and the docket. And for the Ohio Valley — a region with some of the nation’s worst health outcomes — the stakes are high.
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The governor said a record 818 people were hospitalized in Kentucky for COVID-19 on Friday, up 18 from Thursday; 205 are in intensive care, nine fewer than Thursday; and 97 are on a ventilator, eight fewer than Thursday.  
McGrath says that McConnell is to blame for Congress’ inaction. McConnell says Democrats are asking for too much and partly blames the election.
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"Pandemic fatigue" is hitting Kentucky at a time when cases, hospitalizations and deaths are at record highs.
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Three Hopkinsville organizations — the Hopkinsville Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County and the Pennyroyal Arts Council — are among those selected.