Alcohol in Western Kentucky -- Profiling the economic and moral debate

Published: Sept. 23, 2010, 4 a.m.

Last week, the owners of a Marshall County hotel were charged with running a modern day speakeasy, or an illegal bar. Police say beer and hard liquor were up for sale at Ken-Bar Inn in Gilbertsville. That's just a river bend away from Paducah where a bar there would be totally legit. The problem? Marshall County is dry. Chris Taylor profiles the still-waging economic and moral debate in western Kentucky that is prohibition.