A man busted by state police after he was found with a stolen motor­cy­cle in the back of his truck. State Pol­cie say 26 year old Dus­ton Z. Duvall from Fairdale, Ken­tucky was dri­ving in the emer­gency lane n the West­ern Ken­tucky Park­way at about the 110 mile marker. A trooper stopped him to see if he needed help. The offi­cer says Duvall wasn’t sure about where he was headed or where he came from. He then ran a check on the motor­cy­cle and found it had been stolen from Louisville ear­lier this month. Duvall was charged with numer­ous traf­fic vio­la­tions as well as receiv­ing stolen property.

More hon­ors for Sergeant Dakota Meyer. This time, it was at a cer­e­mony at the Pritchard Com­mu­nity Cen­ter in Eliz­a­beth­town. The medal of honor win­ner was pre­sented with a cus­tom engraved rifle donated by Sporter Express. Pres­i­dent Obama awarded Sergeant Meyer with the Medal of Honor in Sep­tem­ber for his act dur­ing bat­tle in 2009, when the Greens­burg native went back into com­bat in Afghanistan to retrieve four fel­low marines.

Two men from Rad­cliff have been arrested and charged with assault. That comes after police got a call from a man say­ing he had been stabbed in the back and had got­ten cuts on his face and hands. Charged with the attack are 21 year old Arm­stead Bay­lor and 26 year old Gary John­son. The injuries the man had got­ten are not believed to be life threat­en­ing but he was taken to Hardin Memo­r­ial Hospital

A man stand­ing around out­side a church when there were no ser­vices has been busted for hav­ing meth ingre­di­ents. The News Enter­prise says staffers from the Grayson County Sheriff’s Depart­ment saw 21 year old Adam Wha­ley of Falls of Rough hang­ing out in the park­ing lot of the Caney Creek United Methodist Church. Police talked to him, and found he was car­ry­ing mate­ri­als used to make meth. Wha­ley was released from jail three months ago, after sim­i­lar charges were filed against him.

Beer’s been good to sev­eral retail­ers in the area. The News Enter­prise is report­ing that busi­ness has been brisk for local retail­ers who have got­ten beer licenses over the past month. In fact, one retailer, John Lewis, who owns two John O’s stores in Eliz­a­beth­town, says he had to work an 18 hour day just to keep up with the demand.

Police say they’ve been get­ting infor­ma­tion on the where­abouts of a man who escaped from the Hardin County Deten­tion Cen­ter last month, but still haven’t been able to track him down. It was on Novem­ber 20th when Lon­nie Ray Coy dug a hole under the fence at the cen­ter and crawled out under it. He was with 19 year old Joshua Nunn at the time. Nunn was cap­tured just days later in a Rineyville home. Police got a tip recently that Coy may be hid­ing in the Teller County area of Col­orado. They con­tacted offi­cials there, who did a search of a res­i­dence, but they came up empty handed.

State police report that a Cave City man has died in a car crash in Hart County. They say Edward Green was west­bound on Ken­tucky 88 when he crossed the cen­ter line and hit another car. Green was taken by ambu­lance to Cub Run Ele­men­tary School to meet a med­ical heli­copter, but he died before the air ambu­lance could take off. A man in the other car was also injured, but he’s listed in sta­ble con­di­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Lousville Hos­pi­tal. Police say alco­hol was not a fac­tor, but nei­ther man was wear­ing a seatbelt.

Fort Knox offi­cials say they have to cut civil­ian jobs…but they’re work­ing to do it with­out resort­ing to lay­offs. 133 civil­ian jobs must go, due to a orders from the Army. The army is cut­ting its over­all civil­ian work­force by 8700. The cuts are due to be made by next Sep­tem­ber. Fort Knox is reduc­ing its work­force down from the cur­rent 715 civil­ian jobs to 582. And they’re hop­ing to do it with hir­ing freezes, early retire­ment and attrition.

It’s called Oper­a­tion Blue­grass Corral…an effort by the U-S Marshall’s ser­vice to round up sex offend­ers who haven’t reg­is­tered on the sex-offender reg­istry in Fayette County. So far two fugi­tives have turned them­selves in. 55 year old Wayne Brian Wade turned him­self in to Fayette Sher­iff Deputy William Hoagland Tues­day. Last week, 36 year old Melissa Mae Brown turned her­self in. There are three more who are wanted. They are Lane R. Wei­d­ner, Anto­nio Luis Angel Fuentes and Ken­neth Mar­tin. The five were not found dur­ing recent com­pli­ance checks by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

A mil­i­tary funeral today for Army Spc. Mikayla Bragg at Fort Knox. Fam­ily mem­bers say they plan to hold a pub­lic funeral in early Jan­u­ary but spe­cific details have not been made. Bragg was shot and killed last week while on guard duty in Afghanistan.