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<p>GLASGOW, Ky. — After a trip home that retraced the steps of his life and a final ringing endorsement of his style and service, former Gov. Louie Nunn was remembered yesterday as the last of Kentucky's great personal politicians — and one of its more willful.</p>

Fomer Governor Louie B. Nunn died, Thursday night at his home just outside Versailles. His son Steve Nunn says he appears to have died from a heart attack. He was taken to Woodford County Hospital. Governor Nunn was born March 8, 1924, in Barren County. He was Kentukcy's last Republican Governor before current Governor Ernie Fletcher. Nunn served as Governor from 1967 to 1971. He attended Bowling Green Business University after graduating from high school. He served in World War II from 1943 to 1945. After returning from the service he attended the University of Cincinnati and then the University...

Republicans see chance for big inroad By Bill Estep HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER FRANKFORT - Buoyed by winning the governor's race, Republicans have recruited candidates from across the state to try to make gains in the Kentucky House of Representatives this year. Democrats, however, vowed they would hold their wide edge in the House and try to pick up seats in the Senate, where Republicans now lead 22 to 16. Yesterday was the deadline to file for House and Senate seats, bringing the usual last-minute flurry of candidate entries and setting up some races that could be hotly contested. Republicans hope...

<p>Former Gov. Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt, who pushed through Kentucky's landmark civil-rights bill in the mid-1960s, collapsed last night while giving a speech at the University of Kentucky and was in critical condition at UK Medical Center.</p> <p>Breathitt, 78, was speaking at an appreciation dinner for Lexington Community College volunteers when he stopped in mid-sentence, paused and fell over on his right side about 7:40p.m.</p>

Chandler, Fletcher play the blame game BUSH, PATTON WILL BE DRAGGED INTO FRAY By Ryan Alessi HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU The fall campaign for Kentucky governor is shaping up to be a battle of partisan bogeymen: George W. Bush versus Paul Patton. Democratic Attorney General Ben Chandler, who entered July at a tremendous fund-raising disadvantage, says he's adopting a fall campaign strategy of trying to pin the "Bush economy" on his opponent, U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher, a Republican. Meanwhile, Fletcher's side will try to use his connections to the Bush White House as an advantage and try to link Chandler to...

State GOP catfight worthy of Democrats REPUBLICANS LAUD THEIR SCUFFLE FOR GOVERNOR By Ryan Alessi HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU In most of the last eight races for governor, Kentucky Democrats have been the ones slugging it out in heated primaries only to stroll to the governor's mansion in November. But all of a sudden, Kentucky has three Republican campaigns accusing each other of integrity problems and improprieties with all the fury of ... well, Democrats. So Republicans are spinning the past two weeks of finger-pointing and court proceedings as proof that the GOP is once again competitive in the quest for...