Becca Schimmel
Becca Schimmel is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in psychology and she will be graduating in December. She was born in South Carolina but grew up in Lexington, Ky. She is a UK basketball fan. She enjoys swimming, coffee, reading and drinking more coffee. Becca has served as copy editor for the Murray State News and has interned with the Paducah Sun.
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First Barge Passes Through $3 Billion Olmsted DamAfter nearly 30 years of construction, Olmsted Locks and Dam passed the first tow barge through its system at a ceremony Thursday on the Ohio River. The…
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Automotive manufacturing leaders met in Kentucky to discuss how changes in U.S. trade policy under President Trump affect the industry and its growing…
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The Ohio Valley’s auto manufacturing industry is growing increasingly nervous about the Trump administration’s trade policy. First came tariffs on steel…
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Kentucky’s joining a national effort to reduce the number of people held in jail during pretrial. In Kentucky, counties pay the cost of housing inmates…
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Trump Tariffs Hold Promise, Peril For Ohio Valley IndustriesThe Trump administration has made good on a promise to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on some major U.S. trading partners, including the European…
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A study by the United Health Foundation ranks Kentucky 48th in its annual report on senior citizens. That’s a slight improvement over the state’s ranking…
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With sunglasses perched atop his camouflage cap, Brady Carwile filled out an application at a job fair in a community center in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.…
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Regional iron and steel industry leaders say they are disappointed by the Trump administration’s delay on a decision about which countries will face new…
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has introduced a bill aimed at addressing the impact the opioid epidemic is having on the nation’s…
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President Donald Trump met with steel and aluminum industry leaders Thursday to talk about implementing steep tariffs on steel and aluminum which matters…