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Postcard From Louisville

  1. Amanda Erickson

A former bookkeeper embezzled more than $300,000 from nuns and other news.

In Louisville:

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post mistakenly placed a shooting that occurred in Lexington in Louisville. We apologize for the error.

Photo by John Sommers II/Reuters.

 

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