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Submitted by Joey Brown on Friday, May 11th, 11:33 am
Source: Beth Wilcoxen

WAVE 3 viewers and staff members celebrate Mother's Day by submitting pictures of their moms!

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Big bargains in a small neighborhood store

Submitted by WAVE3 Web Staff
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 6:52pm

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.

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Crews to widen ramps in southern Indiana

Submitted by Heather Smith, Community Web Producer
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 9:26pm
Crews to widen ramps in southern Indiana

The Indiana Department of Transportation will be working on the exit ramps on I-265 at Grant Line Road and I-625 and Charlestown Road.

INDOT tells us that all ramps will remain open during construction. They say they will be widening the ramps for two left turn lanes and one right turn lane. INDOT says delays are probably and drivers should plan an alternate route during construction.

The construction is scheduled to being on May 21 and be completed by September 30.

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KSP close Milton-Madison Bridge late Friday

Submitted by WAVE3 Web Staff
Saturday, May 12th, 2012, 8:29am

MADISON, IN (WAVE) - WAVE 3 has learned the Milton-Madison Bridge has been shut down for safety reasons.

Kentucky State Police said the bridge will be closed until further notice.  Engineers are inspecting the site after drivers notified authorities of hanging and falling debris.

Drivers should detour to the Markland Locks and Dam Bridge which is 26 miles upstream. Louisville is approximately 46 miles downstream.

Stay with WAVE 3 News and wave3.com for further updates.

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New Albany police evaluate evidence found 800 miles away in Gibson case

Submitted by Heather Smith, Community Web Producer
Saturday, May 12th, 2012, 12:18am

NEW ALBANY, IN (WAVE) - The New Albany Police Department is making changes as part of its investigation into the murders of three women in southern Indiana.

Major Keith Whitlow says they are in the process of evaluating new evidence found 800 miles away connected to William Cylde Gibson. Whitlow says they can't give a lot of details about this new evidence. It is not being released where they found it or even what it is. 

Gibson has been charged with killing Christine Whitis in his home on April 19 and Karen Hodella, whose body was discovered in Clarksville near the Ohio River in January 2003. He is also a suspect in the death of Stephanie Kirk. Kirk's body was found buried in Gibson's backyard on April 27.  

[Previous Story: Man charged with murder in New Albany and cold case in Clarksville] 

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Man arrested after woman's body found in car fire

Submitted by Sarah Eisenmenger on Friday, May 11th, 9:08 pm

SEYMOUR, IN (WAVE) – A man has been arrested after a car fire led Indiana State police to a woman's body.

29-year-old Gerald Eugene Combs Jr., of Seymour, Indiana, was arrested Friday afternoon.

Just before 3 a.m. Friday, troopers were called to County Road 700 north and County Road 1075 east in Jackson County.

Once firefighters put out the fire they discovered a Seymour woman was dead inside and no evidence of a crash.

The woman inside the car has been identified as 23-year-old Tabitha Brock. A preliminary autopsy indicated Brock was dead before the car was ignited.

Combs is being charged with of murder, arson and neglect of a dependent.  He is currently being held in the Jackson County Jail without bond.

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New treatment for severe asthmatic patients

Submitted by WAVE3 Web Staff
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 6:43pm

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."

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