It’s time to Cram the Cruiser for the Ken­tucky State Police at Post 4 in Eliz­a­beth­town. They’re hop­ing you’ll donate canned and non-perishable food items for the sec­ond annual “Cram The Cruiser” food drive through Dec. 12. The troop­ers want to col­lect a state police cruiser full of food at the Post on North Mul­berry near I-65. The food will go to local shel­ters, churches or other orga­ni­za­tions serv­ing those in need this hol­i­day sea­son. They’re espe­cially ask­ing for dona­tions of canned fruit and veg­eta­bles, mac­a­roni and cheese, cereal, peanut but­ter, canned soups, chili, spaghetti sauce, pow­dered milk and juices.

Fort Knox’s 113th Dra­goons are get­ting ready for their upcom­ing hol­i­day con­cert. It’s a free show that’s com­ing up this Fri­day at 7. They’re play­ing at the Hardin County Schools Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter in Eliz­a­beth­town. The Dra­goons say­ing that loca­tion is more acces­si­ble for the pub­lic, rather than play­ing at the base. The music is going to be a mix of tra­di­tional, sym­phonic, and pop songs. They’ll be spot­light­ing the rock band, the jazz combo, and other spe­cial­ized groups.

Hardin County says it’s ready to deal with what­ever win­ter may dish out this year. Hardin County Judge and Exec­u­tive Harry Berry says they’ve got two crews, with ten dri­vers and eleven trucks to plow 576 miles of county roads. The county has over two-thousand tons of salt stand­ing by…and crews have devel­oped a salt and water mix– a brine spray-that’s going to be used to treat roads ahead of storms. Berry says the mix is going to save a lot of money on salt.

There may be a change of venue for the trial of Steven Gray. He’s the for­mer Cen­tral Hardin High School social stud­ies teacher, accused of hav­ing sex with some of his stu­dents. The News Enter­prise says the judge in the case is con­sid­er­ing the move, but not until some effort is made to seat a jury. The judge heard from three wit­nesses yes­ter­day. They all said they believe Gray could not receive a fair trial in Hardin County because of exten­sive media cov­er­age and the widely held belief in the com­mu­nity that he is guilty. Gray’s trial is sup­posed to start tomor­row morning.

An alleged bur­glar who dropped his wal­let in a Bard­stown home is in jail. Police accuse 33 year old Owen Lee Mad­dox of break­ing into a woman’s home, then climb­ing into bed with her. When she got up to get a knife from the kitchen, he took off, and left his wal­let behind. He was picked up by police soon after.

Police aren’t done with their inves­ti­ga­tion into the three gun­shot deaths last week in Larue County, but they are say­ing a fourth vic­tim is out of the hos­pi­tal. April Roberts of Eliz­a­beth­town, daugh­ter of two of the dead, had been shot in both legs. Some­how, she man­aged to drive away from the scene on Hay­ing Road to get help. Inves­ti­ga­tors are still wait­ing on tox­i­col­ogy and foren­sics results, but they do say it looks like April’s father. David Walker, shot his wife Bar­bara and Steve Bot­toms, then took his own life at the scene.

A Loretto man who was a mem­ber of the so called Corn­bread Mafia in the 80’s has got­ten out of prison, thanks to a par­don from Pres­i­dent Obama. Les Berry Junior went to jail in 1988– busted for his role in one of the the largest domes­tic mar­i­juana syn­di­cates in the coun­try. No rea­son known yet for the par­don. Berry was one of 70 peo­ple in Ken­tucky arrested and jailed for grow­ing 182 tons of pot.

Some kids in LaRue county could use your help. The school dis­trict says they need vol­un­teers to help tutor chil­dren in read­ing. They’re hop­ing you’ll be will­ing to take a short train­ing class this Thurs­day at the Board of Education.Training will last about one hour. For more infor­ma­tion or to reg­is­ter for the train­ing, call Sarah Horn­back at 358‑8334 or 358‑4111.

The National Weather Ser­vice has a flood warn­ing out for the Rolling Fork River near Boston. Flood stage is 35 feet. They’re say­ing the river is going to hit at least 39 feet by Wednes­day night, and that affects peo­ple liv­ing near the river in Hardin and Nel­son Coun­ties. Fore­cast­ers say they think the river will drop below flood stage by Thurs­day. We’ve got sev­eral flooded out roads in the area, and police are ask­ing you to NOT go on roads that are bar­ri­caded. Some bar­ri­cades may seem kind of small-but they’re there for a reason-high water. And on top of all the rain, some snow and freez­ing rain are in the mix for parts of the region. So please be careful.

More and more tour­na­ments are com­ing to the Eliz­a­beth­town Sports Park. The News Enter­prise says even though the park is still being built and won’t be open till July, the park is begin­ning to land tour­na­ment agree­ments. D&B Sport­ing Events, based in Owens­boro, will host two youth base­ball and two soft­ball tour­na­ments this year with hopes of adding more the fol­low­ing sea­son. The park will also host the Ohio Val­ley Regional Tour­na­ment for 12-year-olds July 26–31. That event is expected to draw 12 teams from seven states.