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<p>Kentucky's high school students are smoking less, but eating worse — and getting fatter, according to a newly released survey by two state agencies.</p> <p>One-third of students in grades nine through 12 were overweight or at risk of being overweight, and half said they'd had little or no physical activity the week before they were surveyed.</p>

<p>FRANKFORT, Ky. — Many elderly residents of nursing homes will be forced to sell their houses to help pay for their care under changes state Medicaid officials plan to implement Sept. 1.</p> <p>And the state will no longer allow heirs a "homestead exemption'' of $50,500 when it seeks to recover its costs from estates of nursing home residents who have died, state Health Services Secretary Marcia Morgan said yesterday.</p>