No charges filed yet against a Fort Knox sol­dier who shot a man who had bro­ken into his home. Police say 29 year old Joshua Wemes of Gun­ston had got­ten into an argu­ment with his girl­friend. She went run­ning out of her home and across a field to the mobile home where her daugh­ter and son in law live. Wemes took his girlfriend’s car and rammed it into that mobile home. Then when he forced him­self inside, police say he was shot to death by 22 year old Quin­ton T. Phillips. Ken­tucky State police say when the inves­ti­ga­tion is com­plete, they’ll hand the case to the Meade County Commonwealth’s Attor­ney for review. Then pros­e­cu­tors will decide if it should go to a Meade County grand jury.

The big yard sale was a big success…all 26 miles of it. The News Enter­prise says the Cecilia Ruri­tan Club’s yard sale along Ken­tucky 86 had a lot more par­tic­i­pa­tion than the orga­niz­ers expected, and that’s a good thing. They said there were at least 29 yard sales on the main road, and a few more along some of the side streets, so the total num­ber of sales going on this past Sat­ur­day was well over 40.

The North Hardin Lady Tro­jans Soft­ball team is going totally pink Tues­day. The Pink Out game is to raise aware­ness of women’s can­cer. That’s tomor­row night as the Lady Tro­jans host their crosstown rivals– the John Hardin Lady Bull Dogs. The Lady Tro­jans will honor all can­cer sur­vivors and those who have fallen vic­tim to this dis­ease by wear­ing a spe­cial pink jer­sey, pink socks and pink hair rib­bons. All fans are also encour­aged to wear Pink! The Tro­jans are invit­ing any women who are bat­tling or have won the bat­tle against this dis­ease to the game so they can be rec­og­nized dur­ing a spe­cial cer­e­mony between the Var­sity and JV games. And the Rad­cliff & Vine Grove Fire Depart­ments “Pink Heals Tour, Pink Fire Truck” will be on site. All women can­cer sur­vivors in atten­dance at the game are encour­aged to come by and sign the fire truck. Admis­sion to the game is only $5.

Ted Nugent’s so angry that the Army can­celled his appear­ance at Fort Knox that he issued a state­ment to the Asso­ci­ated Press. He says the Army is tram­pling on his first amend­ment rights. He also says some com­ments he made at a National Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion con­ven­tion were taken out of con­text. He said he’d likely end up “dead or in jail” if the Pres­i­dent is reelected. The Secret Ser­vice opened an inves­ti­ga­tion to fig­ure out if his words amounted to a death threat. The orga­ni­za­tion ulti­mately cleared him of any wrong­do­ing, but the Army banned him from per­form­ing this June at a show fea­tur­ing Styx and REO Speed­wagon. Some con­cert­go­ers who had already pur­chased tick­ets weren’t happy that Nugent is no longer on the bill, so the Army has decided to issue refunds to any­one who wants one.

A hor­ri­ble story com­ing out of Rad­cliff Sun­day after­noon. A 13 month old baby has been shot dead by a three year old sib­ling. Police say it looks like the three year old was play­ing with a nine mil­lime­ter pis­tol when it went off. No charges have been filed. Police say it appears that right now this is going to be clas­si­fied as an acci­den­tal shoot­ing. The case is still under investigation.

A Hod­genville man is plan­ning on tak­ing a good long walk this week. Cur­tis O’Dell is 72 years old and he’s plan­ning on walk­ing from his for­mer home­town of Knoxville to his cur­rent home of Hod­genville. That’s 235 miles. The LaRue County Her­ald News reports the for­mer X-ray tech­ni­cian is plan­ning on car­ry­ing a tent and a back­pack, and camp­ing out along the way. O’Dell expects it’s going to take him around two and a half weeks or so.

Grant Funds Avail­able for Vol­un­teer Fire Depart­ments
Appli­ca­tions to be sub­mit­ted to Divi­sion of Forestry by June 18

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 26, 2012) — The Ken­tucky Divi­sion of Forestry is cur­rently accept­ing grant appli­ca­tions for the 2012 Vol­un­teer Fire Assis­tance (VFA) Grant Pro­gram. The objec­tive of the pro­gram is to improve the capa­bil­ity of Kentucky’s rural vol­un­teer fire depart­ments to pro­tect lives and prop­erty through train­ing and by equip­ping local fire­fight­ers in rural areas, includ­ing com­mu­ni­ties with a pop­u­la­tion of 10,000 per­sons or fewer.
Grant amounts range from $1,000 to $5,000 and will be awarded on a 50/50 match­ing basis. The grantee must match the amount awarded by pro­vid­ing at least 50 per­cent of the total project cost through cash reim­burse­ment or in-kind ser­vice.
Eli­gi­ble items that can be pur­chased with grant funds include train­ing mate­ri­als, pumps, hoses, tanks, small fire sup­pres­sion equip­ment and per­sonal pro­tec­tive equip­ment (PPE) such as Nomex® cloth­ing, fire shel­ters, gloves and lights.
Addi­tional details about eli­gi­bil­ity and pro­gram objec­tives along with appli­ca­tion forms and pro­posal instruc­tions are avail­able online athttp://forestry.ky.gov/grantopportunities/Pages/default.aspx.
Appli­ca­tions must be received in the Frank­fort office of the Ken­tucky Divi­sion of Forestry, 627 Comanche Trail, Frank­fort, KY, 40601 by 4:30 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2012. For more infor­ma­tion about the pro­gram or grant appli­ca­tion, con­tact the divi­sion at 1–800-866–055

Tomor­row marks National Drug Take Back Day. Ken­tucky State Police Post 4 in Eliz­a­beth­town as well as Rad­cliff police are accept­ing out­dated, unused and unwanted med­ica­tions. The effort is meant to curb pre­scrip­tion drug abuse, as well as keep­ing meds out of our water­ways and land­fills. You can drop off your old drugs between 10 and 2 tomor­row. It’s free, it’s anony­mous, and they’ll take just about any kind of meds, except for Intra-venous solu­tions, injectibles, and syringes. That’s because of the poten­tial haz­ard posed by blood-borne pathogens. They’re also not tak­ing mar­i­juana or meth or other ille­gal drugs-just unwanted pre­scrip­tions. Head to the State Police Bar­racks in Eliz­a­beth­town or Rad­cliff Police Sta­tion. Eliz­a­beth­town Police also have a drop off for you, and that one is open 24 hours a day every day.

Gov. Steve Beshear is com­ing to Cen­tral Hardin High School this Mon­day. The News Enter­prise says he’ll be on hand to sign Sen­ate Bill 143 into law at 12:30 p.m. The bill was pro­posed by state Sen. Den­nis Par­rett, a demo­c­rat from Eliz­a­beth­town. It allows for stu­dents with dis­abil­i­ties who com­plete a mod­i­fied cur­ricu­lum to receive a diploma instead of a cer­tifi­cate of com­ple­tion. Par­rett became inter­ested in the issue after he learned his daugh­ter, who goes to Cen­tral Hardin, would get a cer­tifi­cate instead of a diploma. Par­rett felt the stu­dents work hard and deserve a diploma to rec­og­nize their effort.

150 mem­bers of Fort Knox’s 3rd Sus­tain­ment Com­mand are in train­ing in Afghanistan. They’re at Kan­da­har Air Field. That train­ing has included know­ing how to react if a Mine Resis­tant Ambush Pro­tected vehi­cle rolls over. They’ve also got­ten train­ing on IEDs and marks­man­ship. They’re sched­uled to be in Afghanistan for nine months.