A Rad­cliff man pleaded guilty to spank­ing his 2-year old son too hard.

22 year old Ethan Sten­house was reported to author­i­ties by the lit­tle boy’s mother. The cou­ple does not live together. She said the boy had bruises on his back­side after a week-end visit. Sten­house will have to go to anger man­age­ment and get a men­tal health check. Accord­ing to the Rad­cliff Police Depart­ment, Sten­house spanked the tod­dler with his open hand.

An NBA team in Louisville? A new study pours cold water on the idea. The study says there may not be enough com­pa­nies with deep pock­ets to pay for lux­ury boxes which teams depend on for a big part of their rev­enue. The study also points out that we’re close to Indi­anapo­lis where the Pac­ers play, and it ques­tions whether an NBA team would com­pete with the Uni­ver­sity of Louisville for fans.

An Eliz­a­beth­town woman is behind bars after being accused of jerk­ing her dog on it’s leash and break­ing it’s leg.

36 year old Angie Bohan­non was appar­ently in an argu­ment with a fam­ily mem­ber when police say that she yanked the Chi­huahua through a door. The force pro­pelled the dog over a stair rail and it hit the con­crete pavement.

Bohan­non is charged with mis­de­meanor cru­elty. The dog should recover.

A Vine Grove man arrested again, charged with neglect­ing his lit­tle girl. 29 year old Gabriel Smith was arrested after his 3-year-old daugh­ter was found walk­ing alone — headed to a play­ground. When police knocked on Smith’s door, they say he didn’t even know the girl was gone. Last year, the same thing hap­pened, Smith pleaded guilty and was put on probation.

Bul­litt county schools appear ready to change the grad­ing sys­tem next year. One big change: if a kid gets a 60 on a test, that’s no longer fail­ing. It’s pass­ing. Barely. It would be a “D.”

The school board is con­sid­er­ing chang­ing the grad­ing scale because if kids have higher scores, they stand a bet­ter chance of get­ting col­lege schol­ar­ship money from the Ken­tucky lot­tery. The changes have one more vote to go at the Bul­lit school board before going into effect in the fall.

A Uni­ver­sity of Ken­tucky foot­ball player is show­ing signs of improv­ment at a hos­pi­tal in Geor­gia. Ashely Low­ery rolled his car near his home in Geor­gia about 4 o’clock Sat­ur­day morn­ing. He was thrown out of the car. But he’s now awake, mov­ing all of his limbs and respon­sive. He rec­og­nized his fam­ily and was answer­ing the doc­tors’ ques­tions cor­rectly. Low­ery started eight games last sea­son. He had 43 tack­les and one interception.

Sen­a­tor Rand Paul says the Army Corps of Engi­neers is back­ing down on plans to build a bar­rier wall in front of sev­eral dams. The walls would have blocked fish­ing access near a num­ber of Cum­ber­land River dams in Ken­tucky. Sen­a­tor Paul says, “We’ve won a small bat­tle, but the fight goes on” because the Corp of Engi­neers is still restrict­ing some fish­ing. Paul says he may intro­duce a bill to keep the Corp from mess­ing with spots that are pop­u­lar with fishermen.

Did you play hookie to go fish­ing any­time in the last few weeks? Peo­ple have been doing a lot of fishing.

The Ken­tucky Depart­ment of Fish and Wildlife Resources sold a record-number of hunt­ing and fish­ing licenses last month. $7 mil­lion dol­lars worth in one month. In addi­tion, the state says that alot of peo­ple are using a new mobile app on smart phones that shows the near­est place to fish.

Can farm­ers in Ken­tucky grow hemp? The state has passed a law that allows it, but it’s against fed­eral reg­u­la­tions. So Sen­a­tor Mtch McConnell and oth­ers in the state del­e­ga­tion, are ask­ing the Drug Enforce­ment Admin­si­tra­tion to lift restric­tions on the plant.

Hemp is a cousin of pot, but it’s not as potent when it comes to get­ting high. The crop can be used for fab­rics and other products.

A well-liked Eliz­a­beth­town attor­ney has died from injuries in a wreck. 75-year-old Quinn F. Pearl died at Uni­ver­sity Hos­pi­tal in Louisville. KSP says Pearl and his wife pulled in front a pick-up truck last week. 69 year old Sherry Pearl was also hurt in the crash, but she is recovering.