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News Minute: Here is the latest Kentucky news from The Associated Press

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OAK GROVE, Ky. (AP) - An interstate welcome center in southern Kentucky near the Tennessee line reopens today and will remain open until after the Memorial Day holiday. The welcome center is for westbound Interstate 24 travelers and is near Oak Grove in Christian County and Fort Campbell.

RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) - A Richmond man apparently realized he was too drunk to drive, so he tapped a designated driver - an 11-year-old boy. Forty-1-year-old Robert Wayne Buckner is charged with wanton endangerment and endangering the welfare of a minor.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with entrepreneurs are seeding a new local-foods economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states, including Kentucky.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Compensation for the head of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources would be capped at $218,000 for the next year under a contract expected to be reviewed by the state Legislature's Government Contract Review Committee next month. The contract sets the salary of Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett at $134,000 and adds $53,000 in benefits.

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