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. It has been published since 1806, fourteen years after Kentucky became a state. Russellville is the county seat of

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. The current title was formed with the merging of ''The Logan County News'' and ''The Democrat'' in 1911. Then in 1968, employees of the ''News-Democrat'' started a paper called ''The Logan Leader''. A few months later, this was merged back into the original company, which published the papers under different names each week. In the 1990s, this was changed to a publication under the combined name of ''News-Democrat & Leader''. The paper was previously owned by

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