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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Dollar General seems to be the new Starbucks with new stores popping up on every street corner. The company recently opened store number 10,000 with 625 more planned for construction.

Unlike the Starbucks chain, customers won't spend high prices on coffee or anything else in the stores including top brand items recently added along with coolers to now sell milk and eggs and other basic need perishables.

Tawn Earnest is Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Dollar General. She says the economy has been a driving force for new customers to the store.  

"Saving money never goes out of style," Earnest said. "Our company has built a model more relevant than others because we focused on keeping prices low."

She says even though stores are small, Dollar General has more retail locations across the country than any other retailer in America.

USPS to cut hours at thousands of mainly rural post offices

WEST POINT, KY (WAVE) - The United States Postal Service recently announced thousands of post offices across the nation will have their window hours cut. It's a compromise the Postal Service made so it wouldn't have to close locations. The post offices affected are mainly in rural areas. The USPS said it's a move that's expected to save $500 Million.

In the small Hardin County town of West Point, a new mailbox is going in at a post office people said is important to the town.

"The people around here, they don't have to use a lot of gas," said Jennifer Taylor, of West Point. "They can walk to everything that they need to do. So, it's really handy."

The USPS announced a new plan last week that affects West Point and thousands of other post offices. According to David Walton, a USPS spokesman, thousands of locations aren't making enough money to cover expenses.

Victims of Carrollton bus crash remembered on anniversary

CARROLLTON, KY (WAVE) - It's been 24 years since a drunk driver crashed into a bus full of kids on I-71 killing dozens.

In 1988, Larry Mahoney drove his pickup truck the wrong way up the stretch of the interstate from Carrollton and hit the bus from The First Assembly of God in Radcliff.

It was full of children and chaperones returning from a trip to King's Island.

27 people died and 30 others were seriously hurt. Mahoney served time for the crash and has since been released.

Since then, sweeping safety changes have been made on school buses because of the crash and the fire afterward.

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New treatment for severe asthmatic patients

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A new treatment for patient with severe asthma is helping them to breath a lot easier without medications.

It's called Bronchial Thermoplasty and Dr. Mark Esterle with Louisville Pulmonary Care is performing the procedure at Baptist Hospital East.

It's a first of its kind treatment of the patient's airways. Dr. Esterle calls it a potential "game-changer" for patients with severe asthma. Using a catheter to access the airways, the procedure uses radio frequency to emit heat. "It actually thins the muscle around the airways, the smooth muscle" said Dr. Esterle.

It's the area that becomes inflamed when triggered by irritants and when it closes down, it allows more air to flow through.

"It does not cure asthma" said Esterle, "they still would have a reaction to their triggers, they just don't have the ability to react in the same fashion as they would before."

Two additional HCS pre-school classrooms earn Classrooms of Excellence distinction

ELIZABETHTOWN, KY – Two more Hardin County Schools preschool classrooms have earned the Classroom of Excellence distinction from the Kentucky Department of Education. 

GC Burkhead Elementary School’s preschool classroom and Lincoln Trail Elementary School’s preschool classroom are now among the state’s elite. 

“I am so very proud of the staff at these schools,” HCS Director of Early Childhood Education Carlena Sheeran said.  “Earning this distinction is not an easy process.  These preschool classrooms have proven that they are among the best classrooms in the state.”

Two other HCS preschool classrooms, New Highland Elementary and Heartland Elementary, earned Classroom of Excellence status earlier this school year in October 2011.

Erin McPherson, Sheila Fonda and Trina Woodrum manage the preschool classroom at Lincoln Trail and Zola Walker, Laurie Briggs and Dawn Yates handle preschool activities at GC Burkhead. 

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Hardin County Schools ready for graduation

ELIZABETHTOWN, KY – Hardin County Schools will host four graduation ceremonies in less than one week starting on Saturday, May 12, 2012.  The district will confer more than 1,000 diplomas.

The Hardin County High School & GED program will hold its commencement exercises on Saturday, May 12 at Central Hardin High School at 2 pm.  Ninety-eight students will have earned their diplomas or GEDs this year. 

Central Hardin High School will celebrate graduation on Thursday, May 17 at 7 pm in Bruin Gymnasium and Terry Buckles Court.  John Hardin High School will host its graduation ceremonies at 7 pm on Friday, May 18 at Bulldog Stadium.  North Hardin High School’s commencement is set for Saturday, May 19 at 7 pm at Ray Story Stadium. 

“Our students have worked their entire academic career for this moment,” Superintendent Nannette Johnston said.  “Graduation is our district’s grandest moment.  We are excited to share in our s