An Eliz­a­beth­town woman has been reported miss­ing, and police have issued a golden alert to try to get the public’s help in find­ing her. 28 year old Amber Fos­ter was last seen Sat­ur­day in the vicin­ity of Cheddar’s Casual Cafe on North Dixie. She’s reported to have some men­tal chal­lenges and takes med­ica­tion for seizures. Police say it’s crit­i­cal to find her because she could have a seizure with­out her med­ica­tion. Fos­ter is described as white with shoul­der length brown hair, blue eyes and medium build. She is 5-foot-2 and 125 pounds. She was last seen wear­ing blue jeans, a light win­ter coat with a hood, black ten­nis shoes and a knit cap. If you know any­thing about where Amber Fos­ter may be, please call the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office at (270) 765‑5133.

Eliz­a­beth­town vot­ers get a chance to decide if alco­hol sales should be expanded. That vote is sched­uled for Jan­u­ary 8th. The News Enter­prise says a major­ity vote would autho­rize retail liquor licenses for estab­lish­ments to serve dis­tilled spir­its and wine by the drink with­out sales lim­its and seat­ing require­ments. The paper says to put it sim­ply– it would autho­rize bars. The vote comes about after a peti­tion drive launched by some eco­nomic devel­op­ment groups as well as res­i­dents. Eliz­a­beth­town vot­ers autho­rized pack­age liquor and retail beer licenses last year.

Ken­tucky State Police have started up an inves­ti­ga­tion on Grayson County jailer Dar­win Den­ni­son. The Grayson record says some res­i­dents have accused him of not liv­ing within the county and that’s against the law. Den­ni­son admits he owns a home in Edmond­son County but insists he still resides in Grayson County.

The mayor of Rad­cliff has got­ten him­self one new con­stituent. Mayor J.J. Duvall’s wife, Susan, is reported to have given gave birth this week to a son– Cameron James Duvall.

The state is giv­ing out $2.2 mil­lion in State Home­land Secu­rity Pro­gram grants. The money is to be used for first-responder, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture equip­ment and train­ing pro­grams. Two local juris­dic­tions are get­ting some of that money. The city of Eliz­a­beth­town is get­ting a $39,000 grant from the state to install out­door warn­ing sirens. Hart County is get­ting $16,000 to install repeaters to improve com­mu­ni­ca­tions for emer­gency responders.

The Ken­tucky Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion is com­ing to Eliz­a­beth­town next week. They’ll be talk­ing about installing a new area code in the region. That new code will be to sup­ple­ment the cur­rent code of 270. The meet­ing is going to be on Tues­day night at 6 p.m. That’ll be in the Occu­pa­tional Tech­ni­cal Build­ing at Eliz­a­beth­town Com­mu­nity and Tech­ni­cal Col­lege on Col­lege Street Road. They’ll be show­ing a video and tak­ing your ques­tions and com­ments. If you can’t make the meet­ing, below is a link to the video, as well as a link to a pub­lic com­ment form if you have some­thing to say about the issue.

Watch the video here:

Pub­lic Com­ment Form is avail­able here:

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The two Eliz­a­beth­town men accused of rap­ing a young girl while she stayed with them at their RV have pleaded not guilty. The girl’s mother has also told a court she’s not guilty. Police say the girl’s mother knew what was going on, but did noth­ing to stop it. The alleged abuse was finally reported by a neigh­bor after the girl told other chil­dren in the neigh­bor­hood what had happened.

A for­mer J.C. Pen­ney employee who pleaded guilty to set­ting four fires at the Towne Mall store will spend 20 years in prison. Jan­ice Coolidge also pleaded guilty to ter­ror­is­tic threat­en­ing because she made bomb threats to the Eliz­a­beth­town mall and Eliz­a­beth­town Com­mu­nity and Tech­ni­cal College.

LaRue County Sher­iff Bobby Shoffner was injured yes­ter­day morn­ing when he wrecked his pickup truck. The LaRue County Her­ald says he was dri­ving on Salem Church Road toward Hod­genville when the truck left the road­way.
Co-workers say he was on his way to work at the time of the crash. The sher­iff was taken to Hardin Memo­r­ial Hospital.

We were telling you ear­lier this week about a fire that’s shut down Trino’s Ital­ian Restau­rant in Eliz­a­beth­town. The News Enter­prise says fire offi­cials believe it was started by an exten­sion cord in the restaurant’s office that was mashed and over­loaded. Fire inves­ti­ga­tor Jeremy Good­man says it looks like a rolling office chair or boxes of wine stored in the room could have pinched the cord. The own­ers are hop­ing to get the dam­age repaired before Thanksgiving.