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Kentucky is home to about 900,000 deer, and most are rarely seen. A few make themselves at home in backyards, however, where they:

Eat shrubbery or munch other expensive landscaping.

Trample flowerbeds.

Send neighborhood dogs into a barking or howling frenzy.

Mix with traffic, resulting in thousands of vehicle-whitetail collisions, damaged cars, soaring insurance rates, injuries and even an occasional human fatality.

“People like deer, and they are amazing animals,” said Yancy, a whitetail research biologist for the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. “But there seems to be a love-hate relationship with them. Especially in some urban areas.”

Big-game managers at the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources use a complex series of computer models and field data to estimate the number of deer in a county or area. How dense are the deer where you live? Here’s a sampling.

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Health Insurance Premiums rising in Kentucky from Lexington Herald Leader

For workers in Kentucky, insurance premiums are rising much faster than their earnings, resulting in smaller paychecks, a Washington-based consumer health organization reported Monday.

Families USA said premiums rose by 68.3 percent since 2000 while earnings increased by 17.6 percent.

“Kentucky families have been hit hard in the pocketbooks due to skyrocketing health costs and stagnant wages,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of the nonprofit group. “As a result, Kentuckians are paying much larger portions of their paychecks on health care, and health care is becoming less and less affordable.”....Kentucky Access

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Real estate fraud has now firmly emerged on the FBI’s radar as the country’s fastest-growing white collar crime - all, in essence, polite forms of bank robbery. Industry losses ran to at least $606 million last year, it says. And the Treasury Department’s suspicious-activity reports are up 35 percent this year. The Internal Revenue Service’s criminal case numbers in mortgage fraud have been doubling every two years through the first half of this decade….. Real Estate