About 160 staffers at NSU in Sonora had to be evac­u­ated after a bomb threat yes­ter­day. A caller told Hardin County dis­patch that a pipe bomb was inside the build­ing. The Larue County Her­ald says a bomb sniff­ing dog was brought in while sheriff’s deputies, fire offi­cials and emer­gency med­ical teams stood by. The LaRue County Sheriff’s Office says noth­ing was found.

A traf­fic note for you if you’ll be trav­el­ing on I-65. Crews today are expected to start work on installing median cable bar­ri­ers in a six-mile stretch from the Hart-LaRue County Line, and for six miles north. The bar­ri­ers will be installed along a two-lane sec­tion. Watch out for the inside shoul­ders to be closed in both direc­tions, and there might be some lane clo­sures in the area. Also… keep an eye out for work­ers in the area.

An Eliz­a­beth­town man is charged with second-degree rape. 47-year-old Vin­cent Mason was arrested on Fri­day. A girl who is younger than 16 told police she had inter­course with Mason three times over the last year… there are no alle­ga­tions of forcible con­tact. The girl men­tioned a sex­ual encounter when she was being treated for an unre­lated ill­ness at Hardin Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal. Police talked to Mason, who said he had been “mess­ing around” with the teen for about a year and a half, accord­ing to the News-Enterprise. He also men­tioned an encounter that matched a sim­i­lar event that the girl had described. Bond had been set at $25,000 when Mason was arraigned on Fri­day. A cita­tion said the girl is “slightly lower functioning.”

The annual Law Enforce­ment Torch Run is today. The first leg starts with the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office and Ken­tucky State Police… they run from West Hardin Mid­dle School in Stephens­burg along U.S. 62 to Cen­tral High School… Eliz­a­beth­town Police Depart­ment Offi­cers pick it up there… and pass it off to offi­cers from the Rad­cliff Police Depart­ment, who will pick it up on W.A. Jenk­ins Road. The whole event is to raise money, and aware­ness, for Spe­cial Olympics… you can give dona­tions directly to offi­cers on the run, or give them to law enforce­ment agen­cies. Torch Runs across the U.S. raised more than $42 mil­lion for Spe­cial Olympics last year.

A for­mer LaRue County deputy sher­iff has been indicted. 31-year-old Matthew Darst has been indicted on charges of theft by unlaw­ful tak­ing, tam­per­ing with phys­i­cal evi­dence, and first-degree offi­cial mis­con­duct. Darst was first charged with the crimes on April 18th. He was put on paid admin­is­tra­tive leave pend­ing the out­come of the inves­ti­ga­tion and has since been relieved of his duties, accord­ing to the Her­ald News. Darst is accused of recov­er­ing a stolen motor­cy­cle intend­ing to keep it him­self, and he allegedly altered the appear­ance of the motor­cy­cle to try to hide its iden­tity from its owner.

The Memo­r­ial Day parade hosted by the Hardin County Amer­i­can Legion Post 113 will start at 10 a.m. Mon­day, and it’ll include a cer­e­mony at Amer­i­can Legion Park. The parade ends at the park… it’ll start at Pritchard Com­mu­nity Cen­ter, and go along Mul­berry Street, Dixie Avenue, and Miles Street along the way. The cer­e­mony will include the call­ing of the names of Hardin County vet­er­ans who have been lost in the past year… also, taps will be played, and there will be a fir­ing squad there.

A fund set up at a local bank will help pay funeral and med­ical expenses for a the fam­ily of a Rad­cliff fire­fighter, after the man’s child was killed in a crash this week. Leroy Lewis has worked for the Rad­cliff fire depart­ment for about five years, and also vol­un­teers for the Meade County Fire Depart­ment. His 9-year-old son Joseph was killed in a crash on Ken­tucky 228 this week, and the man’s wife and daugh­ter were injured. Dur­ing that crash, the boy’s mother, dri­ving a Chevy Blazer, left the side of the road. The News Enter­prise says the Stephen Siller Tun­nel to Tow­ers Foun­da­tion of New York has offered to pay for the funeral of Joseph, and that funeral is set for this after­noon. Dona­tions also are being accepted at the Hud­dle House and Snap Fit­ness in Radcliff.

The board for Eliz­a­beth­town Inde­pen­dent Schools has unan­i­mously approved its ten­ta­tive bud­get. The lat­est ver­sion shows an increase of about $1.8 mil­lion from the draft bud­get, in all funds. The dis­trict is deal­ing with a drop in the main source of state money for pub­lic schools. The dis­trict is bud­get­ing about $8.9 mil­lion in Sup­port Edu­ca­tion Excel­lence Ken­tucky funds, accord­ing to the News Enter­prise, which is a slight dip from the draft bud­get. The only raises in the bud­get are step salary increases based on experience.

Sev­eral peo­ple were injured in a crash in Rad­cliff yes­ter­day. This hap­pened at the inter­sec­tion of South Bound­ary Road and Ken­tucky 313. Police say the crash occurred after a dri­ver ignored a stop sign at the inter­sec­tion. The dri­ver of a Mit­subishi going south on Bound­ary Road blew through the inter­sec­tion, and col­lided with a Sat­urn that was going east on 313 at the time. A total of five peo­ple were hurt.

Hardin County lead­ers are con­sid­er­ing new restric­tions on alco­hol sales and other items related to liquor for unin­cor­po­rated areas. The Hardin Fis­cal Court this week had a first read­ing of an ordi­nance that places time restric­tions on alco­hol sales, sets fees for alco­hol licenses, and lays out guide­lines for licens­ing estab­lish­ments. Alco­hol would not be sold between the hours of mid­night and 6 a.m. Mon­day through Sat­ur­day and could only be sold between 1 p.m. and mid­night on Sun­day. The con­sid­er­a­tion of the new reg­u­la­tions comes as the coun­try club precinct voted to allow alco­hol sales by the drink on behalf of the Eliz­a­beth­town Coun­try Club, which lies in the unin­cor­po­rated por­tion of the county. The ordi­nance for Hardin County also comes amidst a pos­si­ble com­pre­hen­sive wet vote for Hardin County.