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Curtis Tate with member station WEKU reports on efforts to get the lights back on in Kentucky.

At least six people were killed in Sunday night's fiery crash of a private jet at an airport in Bangor, Maine.

That jet went down during takeoff.

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A former Olympic athlete who represented Canada in snowboarding has pleaded not guilty to charges of ordering multiple killings while running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring.

Ryan Wedding entered his plea yesterday in a federal court in Santa Ana, California, southeast of Los Angeles.

Wedding was apprehended in Mexico last week, less than a year after he was added to the FBI's list of its 10 most wanted fugitives.

Wedding competed in the Winter Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City.

Prosecutors say Wedding had been in hiding in Mexico for more than a decade.

They accuse him of moving up to 60 tons of cocaine between Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and Southern California under the protection of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

The U.S.

Olympic team is set for the upcoming Winter Games in Italy.

Here's NPR's Ping Wang.

More than 230 U.S.

athletes are headed to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

They range in age from 15-year-old Abby Winterberger, a free skier from California, to Rich Ruinen, a 54-year-old curler from Minnesota.

Two-time gold medalist Michaela Schifrin is back, representing the U.S.

in alpine skiing for her fourth Olympics.

Other athletes are returning to compete in snowboarding, bobsledding, ice hockey, and figure skating.

A new sport this year is ski mountaineering.