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The steep drop in gasoline prices was too late to help farmers during the growing season, but it could help during harvest, said David Harrison, LaRue County Extension agent for agriculture. It depends on when they last bought fuel.

“A lot of times they make large purchases at one time and don’t use it all,” Harrison said. If they bought a large amount of gasoline before prices fell and have not depleted their supply, the recent low rates are of little comfort.

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LaRue County Clerk Linda Carter won’t know the final voter turnout for LaRue County until the absentee ballots are made official, but Secretary of State Trey Grayson’s office has it at 62 percent for the presidential race, with 6,178 votes cast.

The number of registered voters in LaRue County is 9,959.

In the U.S. Senate race, 6,012 LaRue voters – or 60.4 percent – turned out, choosing Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell 58 percent over challenger Bruce Lunsford.

The state Election Fraud Hotline received 271 calls from 50 counties on Election Day, but none from LaRue County, according to Attorney General Jack Conway’s office.

The number of calls to the hotline set a record. The previous high was 182.

The majority of calls concerned procedural questions. Callers also registered complaints about election officials, electronic voting machines and electioneering within 300 feet of a polling place, according to Conway’s office. There were four complaints of vote buying, but none was substantiated.