The Bard­stown Blue­grass fes­ti­val fires up tomor­row and runs through Sat­ur­day. It’s at the White Acres Camp­ground pavil­ion. They’ll have per­for­mances from Dry Ridge, Com­mon Ground, New Out­look Blue grass and more. Tick­ets are 25 dol­lars for both days.

if play­ing with your Wii sports games is your thing for this week­end, check out the Head to Head tour­na­ment Sat­ur­day at Pritchard Com­mu­nity Cen­ter. The News Enter­prise says they’ll be fea­tur­ing sin­gle elim­i­na­tion chal­lenges in Wii Bowl­ing and Wii Ten­nis. The Eliz­a­beth­town Lions Club is host­ing this first-ever com­pe­ti­tion as a fun way to raise money for local charities.

A Cal­i­for­nia based com­pany that makes t-shirts, c-d’s and other mer­chan­dise for Leann Rimes, Paul McCart­ney and other enter­tain­ers is com­ing to Shep­herdsville. Socaltech.com says Audi­o­life head­quar­ters are going to stay out west but the com­pany will be mov­ing its ful­fill­ment oper­a­tions to Kentucky.

Three area dis­tillers are being sued by some res­i­dents who say the booze­mak­ing process is pro­duc­ing whiskey fun­gus, and it’s ruin­ing their homes and cars. The group claims that the whiskey fun­gus clung to metal, vinyl, con­crete and wood and has marred their prop­erty and low­ered its value. Heaven Hill spokesman Larry Kass, speak­ing for all three dis­til­leries, said the com­pa­nies are “sym­pa­thetic to the con­cerns” of the res­i­dents, but the black­en­ing of the build­ings and other struc­tures is due to mold found through­out the envi­ron­ment, includ­ing areas not related to whiskey production.

A woman accused of tak­ing a car owned by 28-year-old homi­cide vic­tim Kristie Lynne Allen is in trou­ble with the law again. Saman­tha Kol­ley, who’s being held in the LaRue County Deten­tion Cen­ter, is accused of beat­ing another inmate. The Larue County Her­ald also says Kol­ley and two other women have been indicted on charges of tam­per­ing with a wit­ness and com­plic­ity. Allegedly the three ganged up on the inmate, then tried to coerce her to lie to jail deputies and law enforce­ment per­son­nel when ques­tioned about how she got her injuries. Kol­ley allegedly told inves­ti­ga­tors that she whipped the inmate because she had called Kol­ley a name.

Gov­er­nor Steve Beshear was at the Ken­tucky State Police Post 4 in Eliz­a­beth­town yes­ter­day, sign­ing into law tougher rules for seat­belts. The new law will now require vehi­cles car­ry­ing 15 pas­sen­gers or less to be equipped with seat belts for all pas­sen­gers, and those pas­sen­gers must wear them. The mea­sure was cre­ated after a crash left 11 peo­ple dead on I-65 in Hart County back in 2010.

The newly ren­o­vated wel­come cen­ter at Fort Knox has been re-opened. It’s a cen­tral­ized loca­tion near the Chaf­fee Main Gate. The Gold Stan­dard says the facil­ity is open 24 hours a day. Its pur­pose is to give infor­ma­tion to newly arrived sol­diers as well as civil­ians who are inter­ested in learn­ing more about the post.

Offi­cials at Mam­moth Cave National Park have decided to expand alco­hol sales. That comes after they noticed that the num­ber of overnight vis­i­tors increased since sales were first allowed last year at its onsite hotel. For years before that, vis­i­tors would have to drive all the way to Bowl­ing Green to get booze.

A fire ripped through the Franklin Cross­roads United Chris­t­ian Church on Hardins­burg Road in Cecilia. Most of the build­ing has been destroyed. The congregation’s pas­tor and his wife have been liv­ing in the build­ing, and it’s also home to a day care cen­ter. Every­one man­aged to get out safely. Fire and Res­cue per­son­nel say that fire may have been started by lightning.

A request to delay the trial of an Eliz­a­beth­town man accused of forcible rape has been turned down. Pub­lic defender Car­olyn Brown is rep­re­sent­ing Kelly Fer­gu­son, and says she’s hav­ing prob­lems get­ting some files she needs for the case. She also says she has another case in court that same day. But the News Enter­prise says the judge in the case says the issues are get­ting resolved and denied the delay. Fer­gu­son goes on trial June 11 as sched­uled. Fer­gu­son is a 35 year old reg­is­tered sex offender, and with this case, he’s fac­ing new charges of rape.